Category Archives: Day in the Life FIRST–I’ve been totally MIA due to retreat craziness!!! We thought we’d have this really fun retreat for 50 mommies…and it’s turned to almost 200…so after a few last minute folks slide in to keep it under 200…we’ll start a waitlist. We want to keep the number lower (although 200 is big!) so we can really […] Just posted a registration update on the retreat blog! Wow! If you have not yet paid for the retreat ($100 registration fee) you are half way there! SO…be sure to pay your registration fee if you did not when you registered!!! If you are mailing in your check–please email me for details on how to […] This is amazing! My girlfriend and I wish SO much that we could come with our little ones, but I’ll be getting my Ethiopian beauties in the next few months so it’s not doable this year. HOWEVER, my girlfriend and I have already talked about hosting it in gorgeous SoCal next year, if this one is a hit. We have great connections and who wouldn’t want to come to SoCal in the middle of winter!?!? If you’re interested in this, let’s talk. We have a great adoption network out here – and growing weekly! – especially Ethiopian adoptions. 🙂 What type of bird is it? You can typically tells by the way it is colored. Males are typically the pretty ones:) That’s my two bits on birds:)  Registration is on like Donkey Kong…I kid-you-not…we just put up the registration site–and we already have 35 registered in just a few hours!!! SO…spread the news—share the excitement…adoption mommies are getting together for a weekend in February to be inspired, to be encouraged and to relax and be restored…TOGETHER! Oh yes…we’ve prayed one another through […] quick question…do we pay the full amount to register or just a part of it? :0) I just registered!! YAY!! Cannot wait!!! 🙂 Just registered!!!! Soooo excited! I wish I lived closer, that sounds amazing:) I want to go sooooo bad!!! Trying to work it out 🙂 I can’t wait. It is going to be so much fun. Have you warned the lodge how loud we can be? Amy! Are you going?!?!? I cannot wait to meet you! Can you do a post on how the t-shirts run, if you know any more info on them? Would love to get them and wondering if they are unisex, preshrunk, etc. THanks! 🙂 So I have been reading your blog for months, and one of my other blog friends posted something about the retreat. So I very joking sent a link about it to my sister-in-law saying “In my dream world we would get to go to this retreat together.. would it be wonderful?”. So her and my mother-in-law actually got online and registered us for the retreat…surprise! I cried and was blown away, because I was totally joking! This is a huuuuuge blessing for me, so thanks for all you are doing for the retreat. I am waiting for our baby from Ethiopia and now I get to go on this retreat with the women in my family.. I have never felt so loved in excited, I really needed this blessing this week! THANK YOU THANK YOU! -Kerry I am a mom to 12 children, 10 through adoption. This is my heartbeat and I love to meet others who share in this journey of love. In HIS Grace, Teresa Rima.  Okay…so Friday night we had LOTS of families over to our house…our sweet African Adoption families…I LOOOOVE these girls!!! Melissa is one of my dearest friends (far left) and they are waiting as patiently as they can for court dates for their PRECIOUS son, Charles Tucker, in Uganda. (She got her referral BEFORE we traveled […] Wow!! TOTAL God moment, LOVE it! found you through Emily A’s blog roll. Loved your post and even those of your sweet friends. Particularly loved the Korah story. I love seeing His fingerprints. He is in the details-something we saw countless times in our adoption. Don’t you just love watching God work! Thanks for sharing such a great story…and all of the cute pics of the family, of course! i’m loving all the pics from the fellowship and the soccer game!!! and what an AMAZING Korah story! God is GOOD!!!! That Korah story… wow!!! I LOVE how God cares about the small things too. 🙂 Andrea! I am SO EXCITED that the kits are on their way! I will have to let all my “Panty Party” girls know our panties are on their way over the ocean!!! I REALLY want to be able to come to the retreat however I am curious about the cost? Could you get bk with me on the cost or is it on the registration page, I will ck there now! Thanks! bobi You go to Crawford’s church?? We’re at his son’s church in Memphis!! Small world 🙂 […] last Sunday when God worked out the details for me to run into someone who lives in Nashville who volunteers for Korah…in my little ole town in Georgia? WELL…here is my new precious friend Danielle feeding […]  I have gotten a few emails that a few of you guys out there want to sponsor Wiphan kids–but you can’t seem to find the link on the Wiphan site! I got this same request back when I posted about the Silent Night project…SO I’ll share those direct links with you all so you can […] SO wonderful to hear Isaac’s improvement – Glory be to our amazing God and for giving you all the strength and persistance! Btw, I laughed out loud when I read your glue comment =) I was still reading! I am SOO SOOO excited about ITY’s doc appt. Praise the Lord! I love this post and loved your last post. We also have an older sponsor child. He’s from Rwanda and I just got a letter from him TODAY so I loved reading your post and thinking about him. I actually taught in Rwanda for a summer and got to meet my child. Quite a blessing!! it has been such a joy to journey with you guys! 🙂 Thank you for the challenge to live for God in the way that I have to desperately seek Him… I needed to hear that today! Praising God with you for Isaac’s great updates! 🙂 And LOVE those Laney boots you keep posting pics of her in! 🙂 Do they make those in adults sizes? hehe 🙂 Have a great rest of your week! I am so excited about Isaac’s progress. I love how God works! I can’t imagine the joy it brings God to see you rejoice in what He is doing for your son. Still SOOOO happy reading all the good news about ITY!!!! Praise the LORD!!! Also, so funny that your worst nighttime photography is pretty much better than my best! LOL! Praying for sponsors to come in quickly for those precious kiddos! I’m PRAISING GOD for ITY’s great report!!!! Exceedingly and abundantly! While I would *love* to be in your town and walk our journeys arm and arm – I am still grateful for the long distance walk that we take. Precious photos – and funny one-liner about the craft glue. Ya know I read it all!! =) Yay!! SO excited to hear this awesome report on sweet baby Isaac! Praise God! And I just ordered CG some cute boots like Laney’s…she is so excited!!! (didn’t have her size in the store!) So so so excited about the good news about your cutie! 🙂 maybe we could hang out again sometime soon? |
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I totally just DID laugh! :))
I laughed and had a flashback to 6th grade
i am in LOVE with your bird. the name is precious!
how cool that you turned down the fast and furious movie. i would have trouble turning down fame in any form.
lylas,
miss
I’ve had a couple of little wild birds. One was found in a parking garage at a mall, with no feathers yet. I thought he would die, but put him on tissues or something in my car so he wouldn’t get squished or die on the concrete. Just in case, we bought formula at the pet store in the mall, and…weeks later, we had a happy, healthy sparrow on our hands. As he got bigger, we took him outside for feedings and free time, and he gradually started to fly a bit. Then would fly off for a while, then he eventually decided he was independent enough to stay out on his own. Same thing with a little robin our family rescued once (and he stuck around that summer to sing & let us know he was ok, after he moved out to the trees). Hope all goes well!
Okay, Andrea, your life is officially way more exciting than mine. And you officially have way more integrity than me regarding putting ITY in that movie!
That was some great laughs Andrea, thank you for sharing your crazy with us!
Although I have to admit I STILL think your crazy for turning down that movie! My hubby’s jaw dropped to the floor! (We love Vin over here 😉
You absolutely MUST find the Andy Griffith episode where Opie … (well you’ll just have to find that part out for yourself) and he raises the 3 orphaned baby birds, naming them Winkin, Blinkin and Nod. If memory serves, after Opie is pursueded that the birds need to be set free and the deed is done, he says something like, “Paw, that cage seems mighty empty.” and Andy responds with something like, “Yep! But don’t the trees seem mighty full?” BTW,I’m no bird expert but my money is on Princess Tiger being a male. 😉
yes, laughed at lylas…but you HAD to have auditioned for the part, right?? where are you going for these movie auditions..or do you send in a pic?? I want LL in movies…Imean, come on..i could give the $ away to people adopting 🙂 too funny…cute post, kj
YES! I sent in a picture—didn’t audition…but I just chickened out when we actually got picked!!!
Am I the only one who doesn’t know what “lylas” means? Maybe I’m not from the right generation (I’m 43). Please someone fill me in on the inside joke!
Heather
LOVE your blog. I stalk your blog regularly, I admit it (I live in Marietta and like to see the places and events that you talk about that I recognize, that’s kinda fun! – not to mention your AMAZING photos)…but I HAD to de-lurk today to ask this question. I realize that you have many, many readers here, not to mention an international presence through Wiphan, etc…but my goodness…what a presence you must have if a casting director was aware of your precious ITY! Perhaps his story is more far-reaching than you knew? (I’m sure there might be a far more boring, mundane explanation…perhaps Frank’s previous acting experience, etc…but I’m choosing to believe otherwise!) What a lovely family you have! I always enjoy your uplifitng words and encouraging spirit!
Blessings,
Melissa
Your life is insane Andrea. I love the you somehow fine the time to organize a retreat for 200 women…yet still have the patience in your heart to let your kids love on a baby bird. Truly amazing. I’m feeling inspired…as I always do after I read your blog. 🙂
I’m sad I won’t be able to do the retreat this year but hopefully there will be another one next year and I would LOVE to attend! What an awesome idea .. I tried to make it work:(
LYLAS made me smile… and so did this great post!!! I cannot believe there will be 200 women at the retreat, how awesome!!! Now February just get here faster!!!! On my way to my OBGYN tomorrow for a letter requested from AGCI to accompany our application!!! Hope to have it all in to AGCI next week!!!!! AAHHHHH!!!! This is really starting to happen!!!! I am both scared and completely excited!!!! (:
So wish I could attend the retreat that I keep hearing so much about. We’ll be probably traveling again in January to bring our daughter home! Amazing the need for such a weekend!!! I’d love to help plan one up around the Ohio area, except that would mean that I wouldn’t get to meet all of you next year! We’ll see when that time rolls around. Praying that all the plans come together as I know God has his hand on this weekend!!!!!!
Julie
We are back from Fall Break in Borneo and I am obviously way behind the latest news in blog world. I think it is a good thing that I missed the original conference post and that it filled up quickly. Cause I would have been really upset about missing the chance to hang out with you! Ya know … cause I LYLAS and all!
Love & Blessings from Hong Kong,
Kim