Hi!
Here is a poem about adoption I thought you’d enjoy.
Legacy of an Adopted Child
Once there were two women…Who never knew each other…
One you do not remember…The other you call Mother…
Two different lives…Shaped to make you one…
One became your guiding star…The other became your sun…
The first one gave you life…The second taught you to live it…
The [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Family’
2 Nov
Adoption Poem
15 May
His Own Little Language
Shortly after we adopted Tania and Alex (ages 10 & 5) we realized that the ‘language thing’ is kind of a BIG thing initially. Our kids were quite social and were always talking to us…like we understood Russian. Most of the time I could kind of figure out what they were talking about because of [...]
29 Apr
Hey Dude…I Love You!
We adopted Alex from Russia when he was 5. He just turned 10 recently. Physically, he is the size of a 7 or 8 yr. old and he is still behind in school but doing amazingly well this year! The one thing people love about Alex is his enthusiasm. He loves people and things with [...]
23 Sep
Hey, Mom! You know what?
“Hey, Mom! You know what?”, Alex asks. “What?”, I reply. This starts many a conversation in our home and in our van as Alex starts all his conversations with this question.
Alex is truly a gift to us. He is one little package of pure energy & excitement…and people just smile when they talk to him. [...]
29 Aug
Want to help some orphans? Try Operation Christmas Child!
Our church in Gurnee, IL does Operation Christmas Child each fall. We collected almost 300 shoe boxes this past year and I’m sure it’ll be a lot more this year. Each shoe box goes to a poor, needy child…many of them orphans. Maybe you should consider getting your church or school involved in this worthwhile [...]
2 Aug
Putting Your Dog to Sleep–It’s Hard to Say Goodbye!
Today we had to make the difficult decision to put our little bischon, Bo, to sleep. He was over 16 yrs. old, blind & deaf, but until recently would run around the house usually barking for someone to feed him. However, in the past 2 weeks he stopped eating and began sleeping more. He had [...]
22 May
Tragedy for Steven Curtis Chapman family— say a prayer!
Words cannot express the pain the Chapman family must be feeling right now with the loss of their youngest daughter, aged 5. This story came to me today and I thought I’d share it with you since Steven Curtis Chapman is a huge activist for International Adoption. (His 3 daughters were adopted from China)
His beautiful [...]
3 Dec
Good News…Bad News….
Good News….
Kellen is now coming with us on Friday to Iowa. He got a rejection letter from Univ. of IA since he did not have 2 years of a foreign language. He thought he wouldn’t come with us to Cedar Rapids this weekend. Then he got invited to a tour of campus at Augustana and Loras. We will learn [...]
15 Aug
Uncle Bob
Alex, now 8, has loved the name ‘Bob’ for awhile now. All his captured bugs, frogs, and even cicadas this summer were lovingly named ‘Bob’.
I was recently having the discussion of how family works. I had explained to him that Aunt Sue was my sister and her two sons were my nephews, but they were [...]
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