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National Adoption Day
November 17th. Happy National Adoption Day. Also happy birthday to me. Funny thing. The day we got custody of the girls was on this day. My 30th Birthday. “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves.” Proverbs 31:8 My birthdays have had milestones, but also “Big events” have happened on this day. Funny, growing up my friend Megan always had bad luck on her birthday which was just a few days close to mine. She almost burnt her whole yard on fire. Literally, there were fire trucks there spraying the back yard of the woods when I was pulling up the driveway for her 16th birthday! I think her…
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Piece of the Puzzle
Thank you for being a piece of the puzzle. Each piece represents a person who took a part in these girls life so that they may grow up in a safe place. Away from a chaotic world. Each person helped guide us, advise us, and provide us with the resources we needed to help these girls. These were not the best of circumstances. We did not know what the outcome would be. Only the Lord knows. Our Prayer. We pray that future foster parents/adoptive parents/biological parents are able to gain the help and resources they need to help out children who are in similar circumstances. We know this is not…
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Telling the Family
Of all places we were at a funeral. My Papaw was so excited he kept asking if I had told anyone the good news about the adoption going through. My great-aunt’s beloved had just passed. It was a sad time because we all missed him, however we celebrated his life. So many stories filled the dinner table. There was so much joy and laughter. The waitress felt it was odd how we expressed our mourning. I felt a little odd to mention something so joyous and complete, curing a time of mourning and sorrow. I finally announced that our adoption went through. My great-aunt’s heart and face lit up with…
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Telling the Girls
Adoption is Hard! It’s hard to make adoption into a celebration. Especially if you are in any type of situation we were in. If you would have asked us three years ago if we were going to adopt the girls, our answer would have been absolutely not. It’s funny how God changes our thoughts and situations. We thought going into this we would have the girls a few weeks maybe a month, not forever. How do you know what to say? Foster and adoption moms out there as well as step parents, how did you go about telling your child? And how did you go about telling them their last…
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Gotcha Day
“Love puts the fun in together, hope in tomorrow, and joy in my heart.” Each adoption story is unique in it’s own way. Ours is my favorite. Finally after a long process, we finally made it. It has been a bitter sweet time. Each adoption story is unique in it’s own way. Ours is my favorite. It is amazing how God can take something so chaotic, and make it into something so wonderful! My husband and I have really had to keep our faith in God during the whole process. If it weren’t for him, and us listening and being patient for his will, this would have never happened. This…
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PCOS Awareness Month
September is PCOS awareness month. A lot of awareness is now coming out on this syndrome. Not many people know or understand it. Tonight on the hit show “This Is Us” it grazed across the topic, barely. PCOS is so much, but infertility is one of the symptoms. The show spoke on a couple going to an infertility doctor, being turned away due to the woman’s weight. Not only does the lady fight with PCOS, she is also over weight, and in her late thirties. Three red flags for infertility. The hardest part about PCOS is that it starts at an early age. For me, I was 15 years old…
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The Agonizing Visit from the Auntie
The arrival of aunt flow. Finally, after three months, my “aunt flow” has returned. And it had been an agonizing weekend. It all started after we went to the local flea market to sell a few items the girls out grew. Through the long hot day, we made it home and there she was. A few days before I had been arguing to my husband. I had been hostile due to my hormonal imbalance, and was worried my medication wasn’t doing it’s job. We argued about everything. And we never argue. Until this year. The seven year itch. It’s hard I know. Marrying someone of the total opposite. Well with…
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Labeled- Large
Living the Large Life All my life I have been a large. Labeled by a size, by a number. But the number does not define who I am as a person. I would like to think I am a good genuine person. Tho I am not perfect, I have met some beautiful size small women out there who have a pretty ugly soul. I still pray for these women. That they find peace and not let their jealousy or low self esteem defy them. Large does not defy me. I think of all these women who are small. Where I use to want their figure or their size, they wish…
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Loud and Proud
Go all out for your kids? Why not?! It has been such an exciting time in our house with birthday parties (another post), back to school shopping, and starting 2nd grade! Social media overload, but I don’t care. I’m a mom now, and that’s what we do. We brag about our kids! I am so proud of my girls! I’m proud of their beauty and how they take care of theirselves, stubbornness that shows leadership, loud singing that shows their confidence, and their sweet smiling faces and hugs that shows their love and kindness. If you can’t be proud of your kids, and show them their worth, then why have…
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