Thursday, May 29, 2014

Big Move!

I got in touch with the adoption agency this week for our monthly update. We are moving up the list in leaps and bounds! We are now number 47 with 4 couples on hold in front of us. Rather encouraging to hear! Our profile hasn't been out lately but that's okay. It will start to happen soon as we keep moving up.

I am starting to get into birthday party mode. A Minnie Mouse birthday for our little mouse! So hard to believe she is almost 2!

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Growing up!

My little helper is growing up. Where she used to follow me around everywhere and have to do everything Mommy did now she gets bored with it and goes and plays with her toys. This is a fairly new thing for her and I will admit that I am appreciating it as it is easier and faster to get things done. It feels like she just all of a sudden grew up in the last few weeks and went from being a baby to being a kid. She is so much fun and has us laughing all the time at what she says and does and the things she comes up with. I love watching her independence grow and her confidence bloom. She is still an introvert and very quiet in groups but oh she is funny! She talks all day from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed. People who only see her once in a while don't believe us and are always surprised once she is comfortable around them and starts talking. It's fun having conversations with her and I am amazed every day at how quickly her vocabulary is growing. I do miss her being my little shadow all day long and love it when she comes running up to me to grab me around the leg just cause and to hear her say "hug" as she does it. She does it at the most spontaneous and random moments and I love it.

I have been talking to her quite a bit about her being adopted. I have made it into kind of a story that I tell her. She now tells me that she is adopted (even though she doesn't yet understand what that means) and that it is a "bootiful fing" which is what I tell her every time. I was telling her the other night how much I love her and that Jesus gave her to me and she looked at me and said "adopted". Her little brain never stops working and thinking and trying to figure things out. It's going to make homeschooling her interesting for sure!

Today while I was doing housework she kept herself busy in her playroom playing with some toys. Again, something fairly new as she usually would only play with her toys if we were playing with her or she would just get bored with them quickly. Her imagination is taking off now though and it's fun to watch her and listen to her when she doesn't know you are there. She decided to get her craft stuff out today while I was going up and down the stairs trying to get the house clean. I found her with her safety scissors, a glue stick and a magazine. So I got a piece of paper for her and she did her first craft all by herself. :)


I will be keeping this piece of artwork for sure!




Wednesday, May 21, 2014

To Lead a Quiet Life...

It's been a long time coming. I have thought about doing it so many times but something always changed my mind. Working with youth and wanting to stay in touch with them. Wanting to see photos of new babies or wedding photos or just being curious about where and how people are doing. Not wanting to feel like I was going to be "out of the loop" or becoming a total hermit. I am tired of excuses though and so in the last little while I have "unfriended" a whole bunch of people.

Facebook. I have nothing against it. I like the idea of it. Of staying in touch and getting back in touch. Of having glimpses into the lives of others and being part of groups where I may learn some things and accumulate some knowledge to be used in the future. I have seen great things happen on Facebook like people from all over the world joining together in prayer for a man who was in a fight for his life and being part of the miracle when those prayers were answered and he was able to go home healthier in some ways than before. I have laughed lots at the jokes and cute videos that go around. I have read some interesting health articles and found lots of great recipes and been able to share probably too many photos of our little blessing. I have cried and had my heart touched by some of the stories shared. The flip side to all of that though is getting bogged down and wrapped up in lives that I otherwise wouldn't know about. I have been thinking so much about it lately and just how easy it is for me to waste time reading about other people's lives and doings and busyness and heartaches and joys and frustrations and peeves and bad attitudes when I have my own life to be living.

There are a couple of verses that have always been a favourite of mine and I read through them again tonight. It pretty much sums all of this up better than any words I could say...

"...and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands, just as we commanded you, so that you will behave properly towards outsiders and not be in any need."  
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12

So for those of you that I was friends with on Facebook please don't be offended that I have "unfriended" you. It isn't you it's me and it's me wanting to live a quiet life attending to my own business and working with my hands and living my life and devoting my time and attention to my family and interests. I have kept all my immediate family as "friends" but that is it for now.

I am hoping to start blogging more again. I have missed writing and don't really have a reason why I haven't been doing it and you would think that giving up Facebook wouldn't make that big of a difference but 20 minutes here and there sure adds up!

It is quite surprising really how much better I have felt about life in the last week since making this decision. It is freeing in a way and I realized just how much time I have spent on there and how much I let things that I read on there affect me and the way I thought about people or situations. It is such a pretend reality. People thinking that they know others just because of what is posted. Anyways, I am done with it in the capacity that I was using it and am looking forward to writing more and not wasting so much time!

Here is the best reason of all to stop wasting my time!