Filed under: advertising
I’m sure you’re wondering where I’m going with this one.
Blogging has evolved into such a huge “community” that there is now a blog conference being held in downtown Orlando, Florida. Seriously. What’s worse, is I think it would probably be a lot fun to go – maybe next year.
So what do you do at a blog conference? As they say in their ad, “Two words: Rock Star. Bloggers and Internet personalities are the Rock Stars of the information age. Bloggers reach millions of dedicated fans on a day to day basis, it’s easy to see why today’s humble blogger could potentially be tomorrow’s Rock Star. That’s why PostieCon ’07’s theme is “You’re A Rock Star”. We are here to educate bloggers on how to build traffic and readership, and use your notoriety and unique brand to create value and monetize your voice. It’s not all about money and fame, our conference is designed to help you become a better blogger. We have invited some of the world’s biggest bloggers to share their knowledge, perspective and experience with PostieCon Attendees. We provide the peeps and the knowledge, you use it to better yourself and build your blog.“
One of the session topics is called, “Why live life online?” I’d like to hear what that’s all about, what about you? I’ve never thought of this blogging stuff as “living life online” but it does make sense. I definitely have friends I only know through blogging. There are some days when the only “conversations” I have are through posts and comments. Uh oh, maybe I need to get out more. 
Postiecon ‘07 is the name of the a href=”http://www.postiecon.com”>blog conference and you can read all about it a href=”http://www.postiecon.com”>here.
Filed under: Speedy
Speedy,
I can’t believe you are really three years old today. In some ways you seem so much older and in others it seems like you are barely two again. I’ve been your mommy for a little over a year now and it’s been one of the best and funniest years of my life. You absolutely crack daddy and I up on a daily basis.
You look more and more like a little boy every day and are even starting to sound more and more like a little boy instead of a toddler. These days, you are all about tools, trains, fire trucks and any kind of construction vehicle. Your imagination is growing by leaps and bounds and one of your favorite things to do now is pretend to be a fireman or a kitty. Sometimes you like to pretend you’re daddy, but you always go back to being Speedy very quickly – like you know you are the best of them all!
Parenting you is fun and challenging all at the same time. You’re learning to twist words – for example, I’ll ask you, “Speedy, is that toy in your mouth?” and you’ll look innocently at me and say, “not anymore.” When we tell you to take your hands off of something, you will often put some other part of your body on it and look at us like, “well? I’m not touching it with my hands!”
You continue to have the most contagious smile and I can’t even think of it without grinning myself. On your birthday, I can’t help but stop and thank God for the gift of you in our lives. Teaching you new things is such a blessing, but I also learn from you on a regular basis. God uses you to teach me more about my relationship with Him – and He uses you to teach me patience!
You’re doing well in school, not napping but following directions most of the time. There are one or two boys you play with a lot at school but mostly you still play independently. You love to color but usually get in trouble for trying to eat the crayons – we’re working really hard right now to learn not to put EVERYTHING in your mouth! Your favorite thing to do is to play outside – anything at all, as long as it is outside. We’re trying to teach you to use the potty but I’m afraid I’m not all that enthusiastic about it. I keep forgetting to remind you to go so we haven’t had a ton of success in that area just yet. We’ll get there.
Your all time favorite person right now is, without a doubt, Daddy. Daddy is a hero in your eyes and can fix anything and do anything. I took you to his jobsite this week and you got to watch him drive a tractor and I’m not sure you’ll ever stop talking about it. When he comes through the front door every afternoon your entire face lights up! When you wake up in the middle of the night it’s usually his name you call for – thank you sooooo much for that!
Let’s see, when you turned two you were having nightmares regularly and you almost never have them now. You ate a lot better when you were two – but you had only been here a couple of months so I can’t really count that. I think once you realized you could have food any time you wanted it, you got a lot pickier about what you wanted to eat. You still love your sister but she definitely pesters you a bit more now that she is mobile. But when no one is watching, you are usually very sweet to her!
It would be impossible for me to capture in words how much I love you and how much joy you bring to my heart.
God, in these last minutes of Speedy’s third birthday, I ask that You bless him richly this year. Write Your name on his heart, God, and teach him to love You and to obey Your word. Help daddy and I model the character of Christ for him so that He can build a foundation for understanding Your love and Your will for his life. Help him learn to share and to follow directions and to make good choices even when no one is looking. Lord, I ask that You instill in Speedy a great sense of self-worth and that He would begin to understand now that he is loved and lovable. Help him to focus and to practice self control. As Speedy starts his fourth year, I pray that you would bring a special friend into his life. Someone he can pal around with and have over to our house to play; someone whose family shares our Christian values. Please help him to feel safe and secure and give him the knowledge that we are his forever family. In Jesus name, Amen.
Filed under: Uncategorized
March 29, 2997
Speedy turns three! We have a fun day of birthday cookies at “school” and then a day with Granny J!
He is going to FLIP when he sees his birthday present from us. We got him a Home Depot toolbench and it comes with like 60 pieces (yikes!)! It has 4 power tools that really work with the screws and nuts and bolts that came with the bench. Speedy LOVES tools and he is going to have lots of fun with this new toy. I can not wait to see his face. Daddy and I had a blast putting it all together tonight.
I’ll have more to share later on the birthday. And a birthday letter, of course.
I know I’ve been just awful about writing lately; I’ve been busy having fun. Last week we went to the zoo one day and to play at the McDonald’s playground another day. Believe, you can easily turn that into a whole morning. We’ve been “on the go” quite a bit. This morning, we went to a friend’s house to play and then to Granny’s this afternoon. Now that Princess is only taking one nap a day, it’s easier to get out and do more. I’m hoping to go somewhere fun on Wednesday as well.
I’m also trying to get things together for Speedy’s 3rd birthday party. It’s this coming Saturday and I haven’t done much at all to prepare. We’re not doing anything huge, just having some friends get together at the playground for cake and ice cream. He is very excited – he picked out a construction themed cake and every day asks if we can go and pick it up. He’s also asked me twice if today is his party.
I love that he is so excited and that he’s old enough to understand what having a birthday party means. But I still can’t believe he’s three. He’s not a todler anymore; he’s my little boy. and it’s wonderful and heartbreaking all at the same time.
In my mother’s devotional the other day, I read one woman regrets on her children’s early days, “I wish I’d spent more time in the sand box.” It’s not a new concept or something I haven’t thought of before, it’s just that it really struck a chord in my heart. My little miracles are growing up so quickly and tomorrow will be here before we know it. There will come a time when they’d rather be with their friends then their mom so i want to get as much time as I can now. I’m enjoying the little things more and more.
Like Speedy not napping today. He pulled the covers and pillow off of his bed and made a “kitty bed” on the floor and layed in it for a while but mostly just played. When i went in there to tell him he could get up, he saw me coming in and layed down and closed his eyes real fast like he was asleep the whole time. I crawled over to him and tickled his belly and he said, “i’m awake now!” Duh…. It was funny.
Yesterday he was touching the satellite box under the tv and I said, “Speedy, take your hand off the box” so he did. And started trying to touch the buttons with his elbow instead. What could I do but laugh? That kid……
Filed under: Hind Sight
Current Mood: Nostalgic
Listening to: Duran Duran, Go Go’s, Cyndi Lauper, Def Leopard, Aerosmith, R.E.M., AC/DC, Genesis, Quiet Riot, Cheap Trick, Tracy Chapman, Richard Marx, UB40, Foreigners, Tears for Fears, Journey, Cutting Crew….I think you get the point. If you don’t recognize these names you may as well stop reading now.
Were you an avid fan of any of the great TV shows?
The Love Boat
The Jefferson’s
Trapper John, M.D.
The A-Team
Kate and Allie
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Family Ties
Night Court
Who’s the Boss?
227
Moonlighting
The Wonder Years
My Two Dads
Cheers
Or what about these great movies?
Cannonball Run
ET
Annie
An Officer and a Gentleman
Terms of Endearment
Footloose
Gremlins
Karate Kid
Back to the Future
Goonies
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
The Secret of my Success
Dirty Dancing
Rainman
Look Who’s Talking
For all you “Material Girls” out there, here’s a great radio station where you can listen to music from the best decade ever. If you want to remember your parachute pants, your coca-cola shirts, your permed and poofy hair then this is definitely the place for you.
I gotta go burn some CDs. Lookout itunes.
Filed under: parenting
Sigh.
Watching the world around me has turned into a whole new experience since having children. It’s like I’m seeing colors I never new existed before – so many things look strangely new with the addition of this color called motherhood. It’s a deep and vibrant shade that I have difficulty describing because it is like no other color.
But it isn’t actually a color at all. It’s watching a bull rider get the snot knocked out of him by bull and feeling my heart break in a place I didn’t know existed before. It’s hearing about a 12 year old Boy Scout lost in the wilderness and feeling like an elephant is sitting on my chest. It’s an ache deep inside me that screams, “That man/boy is someone’s son.” It’s all I could think of at the rodeo and all I can think of when I watch the news.
I see everything differently now. I know I’ll never be the same again. Even more, I know I’ll never want to.
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, our little Princess took her first steps. She is becoming so independent so quickly – it’s almost scary. Daddy had been playing with her for an hour or so while I was playing working with Dolly. When I went in the den, he was helping her stand up and trying to get her to walk so I sat across from him and held out my hands. she took about a half step and kinda flung herself forward towards me. Did I mention she adores me?
Then she turned around and went back towards daddy and got maybe a step in. Next thing you know, she turns and takes three steps to get to me and when she reaches me my jaw is on the floor. She smiled and laughed and was quite proud of her accomplishment.
Another cool thing she’s doing with her feet these days is pushing her little walker thing. She’s been doing that for a long time, but now she actually turns the thing to go in another direction. It won’t be long before she really gets going – part of me can’t wait and part of me wants to cry.
Delighted. Excited. Giddy. That’s it. I think “giddy” perfectly describes my mood today. I don’t have an emoticon for that so you’ll just have to trust me. I’m just so excited; I’ve spent every spare moment I’ve had today playing with working on my new toy computer. “Dolly”
By the way I was acting, you’d think I’d have just gotten a new diamond ring or necklace or some other piece of expensive jewelry. But no, for me, something electronic raises my heart rate faster than any baubles or beads. Especially a new computer.
I could bore you with the technical specifications but you probably wouldn’t read it even if I did. So I’ll just say this: Dolly kicks some serious booty!
Rewind two days.
It’s late Thursday evening and my back is aching from sitting at my computer for the last few hours – but I’m finally ready. I’ve backed everything up. I’ve checked and double checked all of my programs to make sure I’ll be able to reinstall them once I wipe out my hard drive. You read that correctly, I said “wipe out my hard drive”. I’m no Bill Gates or any other kind of developer or programmer or anything like that at all; yet from time to time I feel compelled to prove to those around me that I’m really not a techie.
I could go into all the reasons I needed wanted to do this, but again, you’d be bored. Unlike the sitting-on-the-edge-of-your-seat feeling you have right now. 
As I’m about to break my arm patting myself on the back for doing such a good job backing everything up and locating my system recovery disk, etc…. I put in the recovery disk and press the magic buttons – and wait.
WHAT? You can’t find my hard drive? What the heck? So I shut down and reboot and do the whole thing over again. And then I prove that I’m not only NOT technically inclined, but I’m also insane. Insanity = doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. I did this for about an hour and half and was completely perplexed as to why I couldn’t even figure out how to reformat my hard drive. Some people do that on accident.
insert epiphany.
I was using the HP recovery disks on my Gateway laptop. Whew! That’s good news, right? Now I know what I need to do in order to get this project moving….since it’s already eleven pm. I knew right where my Gateway recovery disk was because although I’m incredibly unorganized, I pride myself on throwing all my computer application disks in one drawer carefully filing my disks. So I just whip out the righ cd, hit a few buttons and WHAM! My hard drive is gone. All programs, all files, even the operating system. The only thing I can get to now is the black DOS screen.
So I reboot and prepare to reload Windows and then transfer the necessary files and reinstall applications so I can go to sleep. All in a suicidal attempt to make my computer go faster. but at least I’m almost done. Or am I?
WAIT! NO! WHAT DO YOU MEAN INSERT THE BLUE DISK? WHAT BLUE DISK? I DON’T HAVE A FREAKIN’ BLUE DISK.
It seems that there should have been two gateway cds and the one I was missing was the one with Windows on it. Oops. I was exhausted but I stayed up for another hour tearing my office apart looking for that $%##@ disk.
Let’s just say I didn’t sleep well that night and leave it at that.
You should really be glad I’m telling you the short version of this story. Seriously, you should hear the long one. The next day I tell daddy-o what I’ve done and, thankfully, we both laugh (a little uneasily) about it. I mention something about buying another copy of Windows and he has this idea that the operating system will cost seven to eight hundred dollars. Before I can tell him that it’s only about three hundred, he says, “we may as well buy a new computer.”
To make a long story longer, I did tell him how much Windows would be but he’d already said those eight magic words. I was already building my dream machine in my head and wondering how much it would cost. After talking with a tech at HP, I quickly realized that my dream machine would have to remain just that – a dream. However, we did find an incredible alternative and somehow convinced ourselves that we needed this.
Alright, just so you know…….the computer and 22″ flat screen monitor computer we bought does have a lot of “stuff” that will make my job much easier. Remember, I do all of my work from home now and I’m often multi-tasking – you know, teaching an online class while checking my email or chatting with a friend. So it wasn’t just for fun.
I’m almost finished – I promise. Back to today. I get the machine home and get it all set up and start loading my apps back on it. When I go to load my expensive photo/video/backup/tools/everything program, I realize I’m missing a little something called the KEY. That number that is REQUIRED in order to install the software. Evidently, it’s on the back of the little paper case the cd came in which is nowhere to be found. The good news is that while I’m looking for it I find infamous BLUE disk and start reloading Windows on the laptop. No, I’m not kidding. I looked EVERYWHERE for that disk and then suddenly it appears out of nowhere. It’s like I was destined to get a new computer.
I did end up finding the key code for the other program, just so you know.
Oh, and in the midst of all this, Princess took 2-3 steps. I’ll post more about that because I doubt many of you have made it all the way down here.
Filed under: parenting
It’s been a nasty week here – weather wise. Lots of rain and thunderstorms and poor Speedy doesn’t like thunder very much. Needless to say, we’ve had to get a little creative to keep the kids entertained.
This afternoon, we ate dinner a little early and then desperately needed something to break the monotony of not taking the kids out at all today. I told Daddy we were going to paint and he wasn’t very optimistic. “Paint?” he said. “Where?”
I set Princess up in her high chair with chocolate pudding – I just dumped it all out on her tray and she had a blast slapping her hands down in it and trying to pick it up to eat. Speedy was in his chair also and we got out the paints and paper and brushes and we all started painting. Daddy-o, who was so skeptical at first, decided it would be fun to paint Speedy’s tummy. This led to Daddy trying to paint mommy’s face which led to a painting war of sorts between mommy and daddy.
Speedy laughed and laughed while he watched us try to get each other with the paint brushes and end up splattering paint on the wall and floor. (All the while we were hoping it was washable because it didn’t say one way or another on the package) Speedy was covered when we were finished, daddy had some blue hair and a partially blue face and I was left with a black leg and partially black face. Little Princess was covered in chocolate pudding from her head to her diaper and looked cute enough to eat.
Obviously, we headed straight for the bathtub when we left the table. Oh, sorry. We didn’t go straight to the bathtub – one of us stopped to pee in his high chair and then tried to pee again on daddy’s toy truck. I think that someone got a little too excited. But what do you do at that point?
Speaking of pee, today I cleaned pee out of a bin in the playroom, off the floor puzzle in the playroom and I picked up nasty, smelly, hot poop off of the kitchen floor. Oh yes, I did. And I somehow managed not to puke but Speedy laughed when I gagged a few times. You guessed it, we’ve started potty training – kind of. 
Filed under: Child Advocates
The process for becoming a Child Advocate isn’t as difficult or time-consuming as one might think. Here is the basic process for what’s involved:
First you must sign up for an orientation. Once you have attended an orientation, you can then sign up for Advocacy University. Advocacy University consists of 30 hours of training, offered in one whole day Saturday, then the following Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings from about 6-9. Dinner is provided for most sessions. The next week, you go on MOnday night then you interview for an hour or so on either Tuesday or Wednesday and then go in for your last session on Thursday when you get sworn in.
While it is a lot of nights over a short period of time, you’re done in two weeks. And if you can’t make all the sessions within those two weeks, you can take them any time they are offered. Full courses are offered about once a month. They are very flexible with allowing you to come and go for various classes and although it is scheduled until 9pm, you are usually done by 8pm.
After they complete your background check, you should start receiving cases. (one at a time)
I’m waiting for my first case and I can’t stand it. It should be any day now – they say it usually takes two weeks or so for all of the background checks to come in. Hopefully our classes’ will be in this week. I’ll have to keep you posted.
Filed under: advertising
Now that I’m officially up and running again with my new domain, it’s time to get back to blogging for bucks so I can support my ebay habit. You know already that I’m a big fan of Payperpost – I’ve already made almost $200 just by mentioning advertisers from time to time.
With Payperpost, you get to browse and choose which opportunities you want to take advantage of; this way, you aren’t “selling” anything you don’t want to. Anyway, they’ve made lots of recent improvements which include a new segmentation system which awards bloggers with high traffic blogs. You could even make $1000 for a single sponsored post! And this is another reason I’m asking you to link my site. It will help me support my habit.
Also…Did you know that PPP only charges a 35% service fee compared to ReviewMe that charges a 100% markup? ReviewMe takes half your money for every post but with payperpost, you can get high paying opps more often and put more money in your pocket!
PPP not only makes sense for high traffic blogs, but also for lower traffic blogs – and disclosure is required from all bloggers. This means you’ll always know when I’m advertising!
So, please, link to me on your site and I’ll return the favor. I promise I really am working on my blogroll!
I just heard another “bad report” on a foster family in our area and the agency monitoring them. It really ticks me off when I see a news report quoting violations and not giving ALL the information. I’m not saying the current situation is right or wrong, I don’t know because I don’t have all the facts. Here’s what I do know: A “violation” of standard care or whatever they call it can be anything from a non-working smoke detector in a bedroom to not reporting se#ual abuse. So saying there have been 17 violations really doesn’t tell me anything.
UGgh. It just ticks me off. It seems foster parents have a bad rap most of the time, anyway. What the news doesn’t report about are the thousands of children who are being loved and cared for in loving foster homes. In homes that help them heal. In homes that prepare them to return to their birthfamilies or move on to adoptive families. In homes where they are loved even when they falsely accuse their caregivers of abuse, steal from their caregivers, verbally and sometimes physcially attack their caregivers.
It’s true that some foster parents suck. Just like some parents suck. Just like some of every “type” of person sucks. But I think if you looked at all of them, you’d find that most are good homes. Most have good hearts. Most have pure motives.
It’s not easy to allow the state to invade the most private aspects of your life – and that’s what foster parents do every day. Are you a parent? Are there days when you just really don’t like your kids? Imagine being a foster parent whose goal is not adoption – imagine parenting a very difficult, very traumatized child or teen – how many days out of the week do you think you’d “feel love” for that child? And yet you continue. You continue, I guess, because you know that at that moment you are all the hope that child has.
And then here comes the local news station reporting on what a crappy job foster parents are doing. CPS is doing a crappy job – but I don’t believe it’s their fault. They are so seriously under-funded it’s not even funny. So whose fault is that? Who decides where the taxpayer’s money goes?
As long as I’m ranting here, let me branch off into another arena. While there aren’t enough of our tax dollars to give abused and neglected children the support and protection they really need – there seem to be plenty of our tax dollars to provide health care to drug addicts. I have nothing against free healthcare to people who truly need it – people who can’t work, people who really don’t have other options. But when I see drug addicts getting free medical care at hospitals it really pisses me off. I know addiction is a disease and I know people don’t really “choose” to become addicts – but they do choose to remain that way. IMO. And, evidently, if you have a job and lead a productive and socially responsible life you have to pay out the wazooo for deductibles, co-pays and premiums. Want to avoid all that hassle? Quit your job; claim some emotional problem to keep from getting another one and start shooting up and we’ll pay your medical bills for you.
Now that’s what I call a health plan.
Filed under: Speedy
As I’m changing his diaper – Speedy’s bottom up in the air and his legs spread eagle while he reaches for his butthole with his fingers, saying, “Mommy! See dat big hole?” Me, trying not to laugh, Yes, Speedy, I see the big hole. “is that where the poop lives, mommy?” Yes, Speedy, that’s where the poop lives.
You gotta love ‘em.
Filed under: advertising
Who doesn’t love a good rumor? C’mon, you know you do. Even when you try really hard not to gossip, it’s difficult to pass up the opportunity to listen to the latest rumors. I wish had some juicy news to share with you on Britney’s secret life or Anna Nicole’s baby – but I’ve been managing to keep my uncontrollable desire to buy those “tell-all” magazine’s under raps.
I stand in line at the grocery store and try to use my peripheal vision to read all the headlines – now that I’m a “responsible” mother and all, I feel I shouldn’t be reading all that trash – but I want to, really bad!
Anyway, I’m digressing. Payperpost does have something juicy to share but I’m not sure what it is yet. I’m they are about to announce that they will have a million dollar giveaway but it’s not likely. Maybe they are going to get Britney to advertise for them on her blog, or MAYBE they are going to send Patrick Dempsey to my house. But I doubt that’s it, either. Sigh. Patrick Dempsey is hot. (ofcourse, he isn’t anywhere near as hot as daddy-o) PPP is always coming up with something insane so I’m anxious to see what the newest press release will say. I’ll let you know as soon as I do. This is yet another reason why I’m inserting so many shameless plugs to increase site traffic on my blog. So give me some linky love, will ya?
Filed under: Day after day
Why is it that when I have time to write these days, I seem to have nothing to say? What happened to the whole question thing? Where did all my commenters go? Can you help me out. What burning questions do you have? Ok, what boring questions do you have? I’ll take anything. I need to write. I want to write. I have nothing to say.
PS. I need to get back on the payperpost bandwagon so I can build up my paypal account and do some shopping. Speaking of that, if you have me linked on your blog, please update the link to this new site so I can get a better google ranking. And if you don’t link to me on your blog, will you please add me? Oh, and I’m working on updating my blogroll as well.
Filed under: whatever
I just watched something on tv that has me a little sick at my stomach. I won’t even tell you what it is because I refuse to give it any publicity whatsoever. Let’s just say that there are people out there who are desperate to believe in something – so desperate that they’ll believe anything.
It is beyond me how easy it is for people – for all of us, really – to believe anything that justifies our current lifestyle or situation. Although I am a born again Christian, I have always respected the rights of others to choose what they believe…..and then I see something like this. And it challenges what I believe, not because it makes me question my faith but because it makes me question someone else’s ability to choose theirs.
Okay, I can’t help it. There is some guy who is claiming to be JC and has quite a following. Personally, I think he favors Jim Jones much more than JC – he actually says “there is no such thing as sin.” Now don’t get me wrong – I know there are people who believe that and although I disagree, it’s your right to believe what you want. HOWEVER, the people who don’t believe in sin generally aren’t running around claiming to be the second coming of JC and taking people’s money in “support of the ministry”.
It’s sad. Just really, really sad. And it makes me angry – it’s so important to know the character of Christ so that you aren’t fooled by someone claiming to be him.
But forget all that. Let’s just talk intellectually for a minute, shall we? If you’ve been reading for any amount of time, you know where my heart is when it comes to God. I get that different people have different beliefs – it’s when those beliefs are so ridiculous and far-fetched that I get frustrated. So back to intillect. Which I apparently can’t even spell. So, JC came to earth first in the form of a human, a baby. He taught that He is “the way, the truth and the life” and that He and God are one. He told us to repent of our sins. He modeled the way He wanted us to live – dying to self and serving others. He lived without sin. I could go on and on here but you get the idea. I believe all this to be true, but looking at it from an intellectual standpoint, I think few would argue that JC did NOT claim/say these things. So it makes NO SENSE to me that “He” would come again (as He promised He would) in the form of an ex-con who encourages his followers to have the “sign of the devil” tattooed on their bodies to show his disdain for organized religion. That he would claim now that there is no such thing as sin. That he would drive a BMW and wear a Rolex. That you can live however you want, do whatever you want because the only consequences we have are those here on earth.
The ironic thing is that he has the children of his cult salute him by pointing two fingers at their brain – because he says their beliefs are all intellectual.
Are you following me here? And there are people buying this stuff. I’m going to leave you with a quote from this MAN. When asked, “Is it a sin to murder,” he responded with, “Murder is a crime, not a sin.”
WHATEVER
Filed under: Uncategorized
Alright, for the fourth post in a freakin’ row – to all of you lurkers who have yet to register….. I now have the site working properly and will be assigning a level to each post. Most will still be public, but all photos and other good and juicy stuff will be private and only available to registered readers. Why? I don’t know. Probably just because it makes me feel cool. Really, I guess it makes me feel safer about sharing information – but that’s really dumb because I still don’t know who you are based on just an email address. Oh well. Humor me, will ya? REGISTER for cryin’ out loud!
Filed under: Day after day
I’m glad to have it all behind me. The adoption, the baptism, the party – all of it. Now we can start just being a family. Being “normal” (whatever that means).
The end of a chapter and the beginning of our life together. But it doesn’t really feel like a “beginning” since we’ve had them so long. I think the courts just made legal on paper what has been “legal” in our hearts since we first brought them home. We are so blessed with those little ones – words can’t begin to describe it.
It’s funny how things don’t usually turn out the way we imagined they would. For instance, motherhood isn’t at all what I thought it would be – it’s much harder in some respects and much easier in others. There is a lot more to say on the subject but I’m still recovering from yesterday and I’m just exhausted.
So, until next time.
Alright, I know I’ve been a slacker lately but I’ve had lots on my mind.
The party and baptism yesterday were wonderful. When Speedy was being baptized the preacher was holding him in his arms – when he was done, he just looked at Speedy and all of the sudden Speedy just reached out and gave him a huge hug and put his head on his shoulder. You could hear a collective “awwww” from the crowd. It was really sweet.
There were probably about 85 people in and out of here yesterday and Speedy had a blast! We all did – it was so nice to see so many faces coming to share in our happiness. Everyone has been so supportive throughout this whole process, we are truly blessed with friends and family.
Now, it’s back to life.
There’s not much to say these days – we’re getting ready for the big shin dig on Sunday!
I got sworn in as a Child Advocate last night and am anxious to be assigned to my first case.
Until I have something more interesting to say, here are a few more pictures!
