Posted in family, praise, tagged adoption, family, God, joy, praise, prayer on May 21, 2008 | 8 Comments »
My boss seriously frustrated me yesterday. He had promised to go with me to take lunch to our newest faculty member at her new home as she moves in. But then he turned out to have too many meetings and had to beg off. Major problem with that: I didn’t have a car with me. [...]
Posted in infertility, work, tagged adoption, God, infertility, joy, pregnancy, work on May 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
okay, here we go again.
Yet another, unmarried lady in my office has just announced that she is pregnant.
I’ve lost track of how many that is now.
I’m not as upset by it this time. Because I have come to the conclusion that I don’t want to be actually pregnant. I just want children.
Watching my [...]
Posted in Texas, family, tagged family, God, joy, Martin, photos, Texas on April 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I took photos all over Dallas this weekend. I’ll post those later, but the best photo was the one I didn’t take.
We visited Martin’s one remaining Aunt. His Father’s sister. She lives at home with constant nursing supervision. She is not physically doing well. As a matter [...]
Posted in family, tagged adoption, church, joy on April 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Not my twins. We don’t have a match yet, so we don’t know what God will give us (twins, boy, girls, siblings whatever) for quite a while yet.
But our associate pastor and his wife have been waiting for over 5 years and they have finally been blessed with twins boys! They posted photos from the [...]
Posted in praise, tagged blessings, commercials, God, joy, McDonalds, memory, rain on March 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So does anyone else remember a very cute McDonald’s commercial from years ago (like maybe 20 or more) where these 7 or 8 year-old girls are stuck at summer camp (Camp Nippersink) and it’s pouring rain so they can’t have any fun and eventually the counselors, in an act of desperation pile all the girls [...]
Posted in family, tagged blog, joy, Martin, sadness, story, Valentines on February 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Okay, I know I’m not supposed to enjoy this. I KNOW it’s evil. I mean its Valentines Day for pete’s sake. But I am SOOOOOOOOO loving this.
I Made my husband CRY!!!!!
First you have to understand that I’m really enjoying this blog thing. I’ve never spent this much time crafting good [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged excercise, joy, swimming on January 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Why do I dread swimming before I go and love it once I’m there?
As I stand on the edge of the pool about to dive in, my inner four-year-old emerges and starts to whine.
“It’s gonna be cold. It will make me tired. heck I’m tired already. It will sting my eyes. The water will get [...]
