Posted in family, tagged family, Missy, photos, Ginny, birthday on August 31, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Story and Photos will come soon. But for now I wanted to let you know that there are two videos up of Ginny demolishing her cake.
Here’s the short one
and the longer one is at
enjoy.
oh, and my apologies to Missy. I didn’t put a bow in Ginny’s hair [...]
Posted in family, food, tagged God, food, family, adoption, Missy, gratitude, Ginny, Mel on August 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I don’t have photos of it, cause I was too busy watching it happen, but
Ginny took three unsupported steps on Saturday.
She stood up in the middle of her nursery, balanced, then took three slow, controlled, steps toward her toy cabinet. Then she stopped, stood still for a moment, and sat down. I was very surprised [...]
Posted in adoption, family, infertility, tagged God, infertility, family, adoption, Missy, blogging, Ginny on August 17, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Missy has asked for people to help her know what to say to an infertile couple.
This is hard. I was one. I was once one of those walking bundles of pain and anguish who wants to hold a child so badly that it colors everything.
I have friends who say that “the infertile woman inside your [...]
Posted in Texas, tagged Friends, family, praise, Missy, photos, blogging, Ginny on August 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
once upon a time Missy had a give-a-way.
I entered, and then forgot about it.
I had a really bad weekend and came back from it, to find a post in my in box telling me I had won!
yipeeee!
The item arrived and I have been promising Missy forever that I would get some really cute photos of [...]
Posted in God, christian walk, tagged frustration, family, christian walk, prayer, devotions, faith, Missy, bible study, Ginny on July 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My friend Missy just posted a series about Bible studies. About how she has been trained to lead them properly and how frustrating is it to sit in a study that someone else is leading and have thoughts flitting through her head like “I would be keeping this discussion on track” But the point of [...]
Posted in God, family, tagged family, God, gratitude, Missy, swimming on July 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As you love your children, please go read this post. Now.
thank you Missy for having the courage to share this with the rest of us.
Posted in adoption, choir, family, tagged adoption, choir, Friends, Ginny, Martin, Missy, photos, sleep on July 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Last year, Fourth of July weekend was a bit of a bummer. We were dealing with a broken adoption match and the heartbreak was intense.
This year was much different.
We now have Ginny. Our sweet, loving, adorable girl who has changed our lives. You would think we would be big into the fireworks and freedom celebrations. [...]
Posted in family, tagged blessings, family, Ginny, Martin, Missy, photos, Texas on June 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
technically this doesn’t count as Ginny’s first swimming experience. It was just a water/playmat thing. You hook up a hose to it and water sprinkles out in all kind of neat ways that Ginny loved playing with. It belongs to our neighbor who invited us over to hang out in the yard.
But it was her [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogging, frustration, humor, Missy on June 10, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I was getting bogged down (or is that blogged down?) in the search for a new blog name.
All kinds of creative things were percolating around in my busy brain. I knew I liked the water/bridge motiff. I really liked the stream idea, since they are such a great metafore for life. Water, the Holy Spirit, [...]
Posted in family, food, tagged brother, family, food, Ginny, humor, Missy, photos, Steve on May 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ginny has now gone through the basic veggies.
carrots, sweet potatoes, green peas, squash, green beans
all were accepted without a fuss.
She is ready to graduate to fruit next week. But there is one fruit we will not be starting any time soon: strawberries. Because I don’t want this to happen to Ginny like it happened to [...]
