Okay–first…if you SCROLL to the very bottom of my blog you can see the number of visitors since I put that little fun counter on it last January. It counts the number of unique visitors per day–and I just saw this little blog that I forget other people read is about to hit it’s 500,000 […]
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Author Archives: admin Well, it’s here. February 15th. Some of you may remember WHY this day is such a big deal to me. I woke up this morning and said to Richard, “It’s February 15th! You know what today is!” Like all good husbands he smiled and…waited hoping I’d finish the sentence for him–and of course I did! […] Oh my goodness. No baby should EVER look like he did in that first picture. Babies should be round and squishy! I love reading your blog, but sometimes I like to leave it on while I blog hop so I can hear the music! You have the best background music of any blog I read. Its just so perfect for me all the time! Oh my word! Other than the arched eyebrows, I see no resemblance b/t the two boys pictured. What an amazing difference!!! I’m so glad that you shared, and that Isaac has found his HOME. Thank you for posting this today! I am an adopted mama to be, we are currently on the waiting list for a little boy from Ethiopia. What a beautiful transformation in your son! Such a great reminder that love can overcome a multitude of hurts. oh, it made me cry thinking of WHAT my little man will look like IN ONE YEAR..I won’t even recognize him…Wow..what a change!!! amazing…kj AMAZING!! Our God is SO good and SO faithful! Love. What a miracle you have in Isaac. A precious child of God. Beautiful. I love how God put you before me to learn about you before Isaac, watching you grow in your adoption journey to Isaac, and life with Isaac. So HAPPY I know your blog story. =) I smiled all the way through this post, Andrea! God is so good!!! Hey Andrea! I sent you am email yesterday wanting more information on the little guy! Our family is paperwork ready for Uganda. Thanks! Oh my goodness!! Isn’t it amazing what the Lord can do!! He is soooo good. And as for cooing over Isaac’s deliciousness, I’d respond the same way… 😉 Praise God! Amazing are His works. What an amazing testimony of God’s faithfulness! Amazing to see the 1 year changes!!!! Praise be to God!! such a profound difference in just one year. the difference of family. glory to god!!!!! Tears are flowing. Oh Andrea what a transformation. The Lord has been so very faithful to you all in this journey. What a miracle little ITY is! Andrea, I LOVE GOD IN THESE DETAILS! LOVE it!!! And those pictures are amazing!!!! God took his sweet little life, brought him to your loving, sweet, gracious, godly home, and gave him life. GAVE. HIM. LIFE. I am seriously in awe. I can’t wait to see what God does with his life. This brings me such hope and expectation as we are in this “land of the waiting for our little one!!” There are no words to describe what God has done…..only Beautiful Pictures 🙂 Praising God!!! WOW!!! What a precious miracle he is! It is amazing to see the difference in one year! Praise God!! This day is special for us too. It’s the day one year ago today that I finally mailed my application to AGCI after driving it around in my car for a couple of months. Such peace the next day. crying – praise God Praise God for your precious miracle baby ITY. The then and now pictures are testimonies of God’s faithfulness! LOVE that he was wearing that precious bib when you met him! Happy Valentine’s Week from the B Family to the Y Family! xoxoxo PS–Yesterday, I noticed that several of Dr. Rosemond’s parenting articles were published on the Focus on the Family website. I wrote them a letter explaining that his views on attachment in adoption were in direct contrast to the articles on their site written by adoption experts and dealing with attachment and adoptive parenting. I sent them links to the Tapestry and Empowered to Connect websites and told them to consider having Dr. Purvis or Amy Monroe as guests on one of their programs. WOW!!! WOW!!! I would never guess these two kiddos were the same. Your little man just radiates joy!!! Praise God for His faithfulness and for your obedience. Hugs to you!!! These pics are so special. The 1st tugs in a deep way …how blest you all are to have the physical ITY so strong and beautiful today…To love him healthy….God will say “well done my good and faithful servant” I believe each of you at the Young family are all the reason for the miracle of Isaac. Wow…gives me goosebumps.Sweet blessings !  Valentine’s day makes me think of the FIRST day I met my 4th child!!! Why you ask?? WELL…he was wearing THIS on June 27, 2010 when I held him for the FIRST time! Made me smile seeing that bib on him in June! SO thankful for our littles. I thought about that picture and then […] What a fun day, Andrea! Love the craziness…makes me feel “normal!” Your family is precious! In all your craziness of the day, you forgot to finish buckling Frankie Baby in his car seat. It sounds to me as though he is definitely ready to potty train. Yeah Frank! I’ve had many days like that, too many I am afraid. Glad to see I am not the only one making a mad dash for diapers and then realize once I get all 5 kids in the store that my debit card is AT HOME! Ahh, these are the days! Well, now you know how I potty train. No joke-one day we run out of diapers and it is at that time *I* feel like, hey, I think you are ready to be potty trained. (Okay, I know, not the way you are SUPPOSED to do it!) and the kids just live up to their expectations. Haha, well, usually. Or I just don’t care if they have an accident, I become master at silly songs and have to apologize to my friends for my kid peeing on their carpet. Now you know how THIS momma potty trains. You should try it sometime. Leaves room for lots of laughing. 😉 (but my kids were potty trained at 18 months because of this philosophy. Is that child abuse?) I am sooo laughing right now….because I would have totally done the same thing 🙂 he he he he….oh bless….I think I might fall out of my chair just thinking about it. But that picture of your boys- MELTING MY HEART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok and had to tell you we are posting our Journey to Jonathan on utube…in parts 🙂 Anywho…it brought up “similar” videos and guess whose came up? OH YEAH- yours and we watched it and I cried and I TOTALLY LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!! I saw that bib 🙂 Much Love from the crazy Wrights 🙂 Oh yeah by the way I don’t do laundry either- my hubby and kiddos do….thank the Lord because otherwise I don’t think I could do what I do- for real!! I love reading your blog! Thank you SO much for the wonderful tools you share with adoptive Mommas! I had just started reading the Connected Child when I saw your links to the Empowered to Connect site and have been listening to her talks this week. They are so encouraging and are full of so much wisdom! Just wanted to say, “thanks!” Oh goodness… what a blog post! Just love it and could not read enough of these! Sounds like some of my days and makes me know I’m not alone! 🙂 Would seriously like to know how you clean though, because I know you must – I’ve seen pictures of your house and it looks neat and gorgeous and filled with breakable stuff that would never last here! 🙂 You are amazing. 🙂 Love your diaper disaster! And that baby F kept Thomas dry!!! I’m inspired to try that trick today 🙂 I just love you! “Don’t tee tee on Thomas”. Loved getting to hear that first hand. And Go Frank, great job!! Thank you for taking time to chat with me in the midst of all this!!!! You’re just so much fun. Teee heee your story made me smile. I can totally imagine myself doing that! But it also reminded me of yet another reason I LOVE cloth diapering– besides the money saving, landfill saving (1 kid in disposables= a ton of waste which takes 500 years to decompose. That’s ONE kid. ONE KID!!!), and bonuses for the kid… there’s’ not ever the “oh no I’m out of diapers!!!” panic. 🙂 So… maybe you might wanna consider them! Kawaii baby (theluvyourbaby.com) has reallly inexpensive diapers which are workhorses; even if you just did 1/2 cloth, 1/2 disposables, you’d save a ton of money and do so much for the planet. Just a thought! 🙂 Last week when I went to hear a well known parenting author talk at a church here in Atlanta how he believes attachment is a myth for our adopted children, I spoke up asking how his theory would then explain the different levels of neurotransmittors in children who are from hard places due to malnourishment, […] Mr. B and I have been listening to some of my CDs from C4C and he especially appreciated Amy Monroe’s talks. We’re hoping to attend the E2C conference in Nashville in September and in the meantime to work through the study guide together. The website is so full of helpful resources. And I just have to say that I am so proud of you for having the courage to speak up and post about your objections to these other theories. I am stunned that these things are being taught to parents and so saddened to think of children with broken, wounded hearts being raised by people who follow this model–especially with all of the research and feedback that we have from internationally adopted children over the last 30-40 years. Hello! the U of MN adoption clinic also has several hours of workshops on attachment available for free on their website here – http://www.cmh.umn.edu/events/Workshop%20Descriptions.html one of the peds at the international adoption clinic there, who has reviewed the files of over 15,000 children says this, i am concerned for the adoptive children being parented in the way you discussed above. there are a lot of myths out there surrounding healthy infant adoption. there are many who feel they are “saving” the child. that mentality, i feel, can create an attitude where the child *owes* the parent something – gratitude, good behavior, etc. it also may not prepare parents for the real challenges they will face in parenting an adoptive child. i strongly feel that if christian parents cannot meet the special needs of their adoptive children, then they should look for other ways to help orphans and widows. adoption is so expensive and so much good could be done with that money if given to people who would be good stewards of it. adoption is only a small (tiny) solution to the orphan crisis. WHAT?????? Comparing children to dogs- OK this is where I would have lost it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂 Whew…ok anyway….thank you for sharing these videos 🙂 I hope & pray that the adoption docs are explaining that a large percentage of problem behaviors are due to the brain & Sensory Processing Disorder. SPD is prevalent in most children who have been in an orphanage over 1 yr & if they get OT therapy before the age of 6 it results in normalized behavior. Through Sensory Integration Therapy exercises by a certified Occupational Therapist these behaviors decrease or virtually disappear. It reprograms the brain & normalizes the brain’s chemical (neurotransmitter) over or under response. So many of these kiddos are being misdiagnosed with ADHD & other disorders & it just breaks my heart. I am hoping that the books “The Out of Sync Child” & “The Out of Sync Child has Fun” by Carol Stock Kranowitz are being recommended by the adoption docs. I am so glad that you are advocating educating moms on the brain & how they can help their children heal. You are changing lives for the better! Fabulous info! I think every adoptive parent should be educated on Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). It has a HUGE affect on the neurotransmitters and the bonding that adoptive parents and children experience. I experienced it with my son when I was diagnosed with cancer when he was only 4 months old and we missed that crucial bonding period. We have gone through a “re-bonding” period much like what adoptive parents and children experience and it has been amazing and life changing. He has begun to thrive in so many areas that we didn’t even realize he was behind. Hey Andrea! Two things: (1) I want you to know I made your Valentine’s fortune cookies for my three kiddos as well as the two girls I teach next door, and they were a total hit… and (2) that’s awesome that you’re coming to Denver in April! We were trying to figure out a way to get me to that conference, and we even live right here. 🙂 We need to hook up! -Nikki  Yep–it’s TIME to register forrrrr…THE WARTHOG WADDLE! Every year, Wiphan focuses on ONE big fundraiser…last year it was the cookbooks–and THIS year…we are runnin’ off all that cookin’! Wiphan Care Ministries is a ministry that we LOVE and love being a part of–and would LOVE for you to join us in caring for the orphans […] YES!!!!!!!!!! Frankie-Baby … please RUN FOR ME!!! I will be clicking over now to send in my registration for Frank. Love This, Andrea!! LOVE that Frank! He’s such a good sport! What a precious, fun video. seriously, one of the best videos of all time. go frank! Oh I love Frank!! And the best of part of the video is when he gets a Krispy Kreme doughnut for finishing the race! What a way to start my day! LOVE the FRANK VIDEO!!! Too much fun!!! This video CRACKS me up. I love that you had to pin the biking shorts in the back to keep them on him 🙂 Frank will definitely be running for me. RUN FRANK RUN! I will post your video on my blog this week. I have seen it all Andrea!! How did you have time to think about this and come up with this and film in and put it together all in the last week. You are beyond all of us! Precious Video and great idea!! I will let you know if I can run with you guys in Roswell! Should be fun!!! Frankie, my man! My money is on you! And, seriously, I think you run MUCH faster than I ever could! |
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Oh how I loved your post yesterday and how I love it today too! Thanks for sharing the struggles and frustrations along with the victories! And I LOVE God moments when the scripture I’ve been pondering and just blogged about is the same scripture on your heart!!
Thanks so much for this one. It seems I’ve been having this type of day more often than not lately. Thank you for sharing your day and explaining Psalm 46 a little more clearly. I’ll be carrying it with me today…and hopefully on and on.
I love reading your blog and have only been a follower for a few weeks. I’m not an adopting momma…YET. I’m praying God can help my husband work through the details in his oh-so-cautious brain. My heart is there-and has been for a long time. Where is the psalm on patience??? Hee Hee. Thanks again, congrats on 500,000 and your kids are super adorable! ~Kristi
Yep, you are definitely a “river whose streams make glad the city of God.” You are constantly using opportunities to share His praise. Praying for today to be a better day! Oh, and you have to check out Ann Voskamp’s new book, One Thousand Gifts, if you have not. Beautiful, encouraging, challenging, but simple read if you fit in one chapter a week and take time to just really reflect on it. It’s all about how “thanksgiving (eucharisteo) always precedes the miracle.” SOOOOOOOO good. And the (in)courage blog is doing videos with her over every chapter right now. I think every busy mama who has so much in the “here and now” that seems mundane and stressful sometimes will appreciate this book! 🙂
I love this…probably b/c that is how so many of us feel…great and thankful, attacked, blessed, serious, silly, organized, out of control, and so on!!!! A day in the life! I love how you CONTINUALLY turn and keep your eyes fixed on Jesus!
I missed being the 500,000 reader by only 551!!! LOL. After my day yesterday (blogged), Psalm 46 was perfect – more than you can imagine. =)