Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
Sending love
2 Loving daddies and their PRECIOUS baby girls.
I start this post with showing what one way to love looks like. But there are MANY WAYS TO SHOW LOVE.
I am going to give you a simple way that will slowly, over time start to change your heart and open your eyes to make your world much bigger and better!!
James 1:17 27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
As Christians we are called to love, protect, support and pray for the least of these. Through Awake and Alive, the organization started by myself and fellow adoptive momma Danielle we will be offering you exciting ways to get involved and be a part of what God calls pure and faultless religion.
We are in the process of starting a school in Kechene, Ethiopia. Kechene is a slum in the capitol and these children NEED your help to get an education and CHANGE THEIR WORLDS!! We will also be taking mission trips over there, and that will be a great opportunity to see the reality that these little kiddos deal with every day.
You can find us on Facebook, by searching for Awake and Alive to keep in the know that way also.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
It's a love hate thing.
Pacifiers...
I loved them!!! They were the BIGGEST blessing for the past 2 years. And have been THE WORST THING IN THE WORLD the last few days!!!
We have decided Claire is 2 1/2 and old enough to not have that thing in her mouth all the time!!! So we went cold turkey!
Claire was so proud to become a BIG GIRL and say," bye bye" to her paci's.
One night I asked "Claire do you want to go to bed with out your paci tonight? It will make you a big girl." and she said, "yes Mommy." She had NO CLUE WHAT SHE WAS IN FOR! Neither did we....
That night was OK Darin held her on the couch until she fell asleep. No big deal...I was thinking, "wow this is going to be easy." The next day was Sunday and she woke up TICKED... wondering where her paci was... I reminded her she was a Big Girl and she did not need a paci any more!!
She then informed me. "I want to be a baby!! I do not want to be a big girl!!!" Oh boy... here we go.
A few days went by and it was not fun for ANYONE!!! ...we limped along with no paci
It was literally like a drug with drawl one night!! She was shaking, sweating, crying, and could hardly breath! I was scared for her! Darin laid down with her until she fell asleep, around 11!!! I went in to check on her around midnight before we went to bed and she was still sniffing in her sleep. ((((HEARTBREAKING)))))
Then it was Monday and I had to tackle her and the absence of the paci all by myself!! It was absolutely awful!
She was a bear when she woke up! She just cried, threw fits, and was mean! Then it was nap time and boy oh boy... when I finally got her to sleep at 3 (nap time is normally 12) she slept maybe 15 minutes and woke up and was NOT HAPPY!
So I called Darin, because after 3 days of this I was at my wits end, and said..."we might need to give the paci back, but just at sleeping times!!" And that is what we have done.
We can all sleep and she is doing OK with the fact that she can only have Paci when she is in bed...All is well in her world again...
I loved them!!! They were the BIGGEST blessing for the past 2 years. And have been THE WORST THING IN THE WORLD the last few days!!!
We have decided Claire is 2 1/2 and old enough to not have that thing in her mouth all the time!!! So we went cold turkey!
Claire was so proud to become a BIG GIRL and say," bye bye" to her paci's.
One night I asked "Claire do you want to go to bed with out your paci tonight? It will make you a big girl." and she said, "yes Mommy." She had NO CLUE WHAT SHE WAS IN FOR! Neither did we....
That night was OK Darin held her on the couch until she fell asleep. No big deal...I was thinking, "wow this is going to be easy." The next day was Sunday and she woke up TICKED... wondering where her paci was... I reminded her she was a Big Girl and she did not need a paci any more!!
She then informed me. "I want to be a baby!! I do not want to be a big girl!!!" Oh boy... here we go.
A few days went by and it was not fun for ANYONE!!! ...we limped along with no paci
It was literally like a drug with drawl one night!! She was shaking, sweating, crying, and could hardly breath! I was scared for her! Darin laid down with her until she fell asleep, around 11!!! I went in to check on her around midnight before we went to bed and she was still sniffing in her sleep. ((((HEARTBREAKING)))))
Then it was Monday and I had to tackle her and the absence of the paci all by myself!! It was absolutely awful!
She was a bear when she woke up! She just cried, threw fits, and was mean! Then it was nap time and boy oh boy... when I finally got her to sleep at 3 (nap time is normally 12) she slept maybe 15 minutes and woke up and was NOT HAPPY!
So I called Darin, because after 3 days of this I was at my wits end, and said..."we might need to give the paci back, but just at sleeping times!!" And that is what we have done.
We can all sleep and she is doing OK with the fact that she can only have Paci when she is in bed...All is well in her world again...
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Wow it has been a year.
It has been one year since our referrals! With adoption there are many different "stages" in which you become a family. In your heart, legally, and then once they are actually in your arms and in your care.
We became a family of 4 in our hearts on June 17th when we got our referral and 1st saw pictures our baby Ben.
And a family of 5 on June 29th when we received pictures and we saw sweet Stella for the 1st time.
What a difference one year makes!!
Baby Ben
Sweet Stella
It is amazing to look at the difference.