Category Archives: Day in the Life If you know us–we are always looking for a reason to celebrate–and THIS reason we thought was worthy of a CELEBRATION! It’s official. Today we have been home 1 year!!! SO–we decided to invite Isaac’s friends over and family and CELEBRATE! We have come SO FAR in 1 year!!! This time last year we were […]  Today (Wednesday) is Isaac’s big re-adoption day!!! We’ll rise at 6am–get everyone…YES! Everyone has to go…all dressed and ready for the courthouse. We’ll raise our right hands–and Isaac Temesgen Young’s adoption will be full and finalized…and he’ll become a U.S. Citizen! Please pray everything goes well!!! And I hope I remember my camera to remember […] As the mother of a little girl with special needs I completely and wholeheartedly agree. Kate has taught me to love in a deeper more meaningful way. Each smile from her is precious…when she says “Mama”, oh how my heart melts…for that is the one and only word she says. She turns 4 this July and only began walking a few months ago. My husband and I feel blessed for we will forever get to experience Kate as innocent as one can be…a child. Her spirit and life has touched more people than I can tell you. Yes, our days are long and sometimes very difficult…but if she can smile after having her 8th seizure of the day, or she can smile in the midst of being in the hospital for yet another EEG or test…oh, what joy can we find in living!!! Praying for you, friend. I know that God has a destiny for you far above what you can imagine. I wouldn’t want to go back to life before my Kate…God has made me into a new person through her. 🙂 I know I have mentioned my baby brother Stephen to you before. Stephen in now 14, and his list of special needs is so long it is hard to remember them all! I was 15 when Stephen was born, and so many people told my mom he would “ruin” the rest of us kids….we would be bitter and resentful that he had been born and how dramatically our lives would change. Well, he did “ruin” us, but not in the way they thought. My other siblings and I are not afraid of having children with special needs, we see every life as sacred and every day as a gift. Stephen cannot talk, he only makes LOUD, constant “hollaring” noises. He will have to be fed and diapered every day of his life. Though doctors said he would never even sit up, at 9 years old he took his first step. Oh, and he is getting to the “nightmare” stage. He can open doors, but has no concept to not go walking off into the road. (On more than on occasion my parents have made desperate calls to the police when they have “lost” him….when he has opened the door and left!) My parents house is totally rigged for him. They will never be empty nest, it is almost impossible to find someone to babysit Stephen so they can go on a date….and should he outlive my parents, I will become his caregiver. My mom once told me that if she could ever “choose” just one of her kids to have, she would choose Stephen. (And not because she doesn’t love the rest of us:) She says Stephen’s life has taught her the love of Christ like nothing else could have. We are like Stephen….helpless, needy, “unloveable”….and yet Christ died for us. Stephen has never said a word, yet many have come to know Christ through him…..or more accurately through my parents love and care for him. My mom describes it as “Hard, yet wonderful.” None of us would trade the hard for anything, because then we would miss out on the wonderful. I am so excited to see the child the Lord brings to your family, and to see the way he uses this little one to impact the World for Christ! (Sorry for the novel……I could go on forever about our love for Stephen and the “blessings” of special needs:)  My VBFF came over today with her NEWBORN baby…just a week old and I took newborn pictures for her. OH…so precious! {here is a sneak peak for ya Kelly!} No–I’m not photographing babies–or children–or families–again:). Just my sweeties and the sweeties of my VBFFs:). Life as it should be for this momma. But how stinking […] hey, i want fried green tomatoes when i come to visit…plus the dipping sauce 🙂 kj Girl, of course I read every word! Your blog is my very favorite! 🙂 Guess Google reader knows that now too because it’s always listed first when there’s an update. So happy you for you guys in your celebrating this week – God is so good and faithful in providing for Isaac and your every need! Praising the Lord with you! And PS, how in the world did you get that gorgeous photo in the tent in the dark? External flash? I hang on every word – and I am relieved to hear that I am not the only one who forgets to purchase items until after we are out! Congratulations on the exciting week ahead. 🙂 me too! me too! i heart this blog…and the crazy, fun family facts you add. i have had that happen, too, but we used cloth w/out littlest and i had forgotten to put a load of diapers in the dryer when i realized i had just used my last one. we made a “make-shift” diaper. not something i will ever have to experience again, thankfully. <3 FUN! We camped out too! Did you know it was the great american backyard campout night last night?!?! perfect timing 🙂 Love this! Sounds like the most wonderful night. Can I just say that I love that when I read “I just realized we were out of diapers.” I think I have read that more than once on your blog and I absolutely love it. Sometimes I read and wonder how do you do it all and then I read something like that and laugh out loud because you are normal and do crazy things like the rest of us. LOL.  Rico Suave has been out of town all week…and he is home:). Ever just have those weeks you feel like you need an award because you made it?! I have not ONE picture from our week–but let me tell you some highlights… …welcomed a precious adoption family to our home for a night–with their 5 […] sounds like a delightful week to me! But I know you are LOVING having the hubby back home!:) Chester and Twitchy. And you are the most awesomest friend ever for keeping them through all those episodes! I wouldn’t have blamed you if you just turned them loose in the woods!!! We will absolutely be reimbursing you for the doctor bills! Thank you! Love you!  We’ve been in full swing all summer…EXCEPT this week–we’re trying our best to really gear down and slow down. AND today–I had a precious babysitter come over so I could get adoption stuff done–but instead of getting errands run I ended up sitting in a parking lot reading Psalms. Just what momma REALLY needed. Playing […] Time does fly by and you are so wise to savor the moments now with your little ones. We just took our oldest to college this week…11 hours away from home (from Iliinois to Georgia Tech) and oh how my mommy heart yearns for just a few more moments…., Because of this post, I am going through old pictures of my babies now 22 and 15 (adopted from foster care at age 9). It is amazing how fast time flies by and how precious those memories of the “little” days are. Reliving adoption day all over and how utterly happy we all were (and still are) brought tears to both of us. Thank you for that. Enjoy the day…we certainly will and it will include no laundry here either! That is so very true. It is going by so fast! My heart is overwhelmed some days with how fast the times passes. |
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Makes my heart swell – love!!
happy one year home, Isaac!!!!
Can’t believe it’s already been a year! What a cutie and an adorable family. God is so good!!
i wouldn’t say you spared us! i think you’re just teasing us by not posting! ha 🙂 congrats!!