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We adopted Tong Min Se from China on 13 Sept 2006, but she has been a part of our lives forever. Jaiden Riley Katheleen is now a huge part of our everyday moments and we cannot imagine life without her. I welcome you to follow along this journey as she grows. Thanks for visiting!
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What would be your advice to a woman who is about to adopt for the first time?
redmaryjanes: adopting for the first time is scary, especially if you have children in the home already. You want the bonding process to go smoothly and you want everyone to get along right away. My advice would be to just let nature takes it's course, pick and choose your battles. There may be jealousy issues but if you love deeply and from the heart time will balance it out. When we first chose to adopt our oldest (15)was very angy. He did not want to have to share us with another child or have a "brat" to deal with. He was the first one to grab Jaiden into his arms the moment we walked through the door and they've adored each other from that first moment. Adopting has been the greatest blessing our family has ever experienced.
Are you laid back or scheduled?
What do you do to relax?
Do you consider yourself to have many close friends?
Why do you blog?
What is your favorite color?
good questions steffie!!! Thank You!
Are you laid back or scheduled?
I am VERY laid back - schedules make me ill and I humbly rely on the mercy of my friends to keep me on track at times.
What do you do to relax?
If I were any more relaxed I'd be dead but blogging is my get away spot to find a happy place
Do you consider yourself to have many close friends? oooh this is a good one. I've got so many "friends" that I would love to consider "good friends" but close friends??? No I must honestly say that the ones that I have been close to are far far away and I really really miss that feeling of being able to go hang out and laugh and chat with my closest friend whenever I felt like it. I haven't had a really close friend since...9th grade. Until last year we had lost touch because of a dispute we had and finally I found her again but we've grown up and it'll never be the same again but I will always cherish those memories of the good and the bad times we had. Whew that was a toughie!
Why do you blog? To find that "happy place" again - a friend that will invite me in no matter what and let me share secrets and laugh and cry together
What is your favorite color? pale yellow - since the other questions are so deep I might as well answer the why behind this as well. It reminds me of the sunlight and it warms and strengthens me when I am feeling very blah and lonely. Seeing sunlight always reminds me that God's love is there always, even when we can't see it - we feel His warmth inside our hearts and if we try, maybe we can brighten someone's day too
Excellent.....bravo my friend!
Do you fart or toot?
(sorry, it's getting late and I begin to get slap happy)! lol
haaaa that's funny I like someone that can make me think deep and laugh all in one day!
Hmmm... fartin around are we? LOL I've always wanted to pull a prank and do the silent deadly right beside someone and then walk away
What's the dif between a fart and a toot? I guess a toot is what hubs does - sometimes I wake up early and he's in the bathroom getting ready for work and playing a little toot toot tune on his bumbone LOL
I guess a fart to me would be the big ripper...like after Mexican food....a toot would be just like a little....poof....ROTFL! ;)
Kind of like a belch vs.a burp
Oh I love letting a good ol' belch out every now and then! Especially at a resturant where the music is kinda loud....you can sooooo get away with it and the hubs always looks at me in shock and busts out laughing!
I was just out walking in the yard and thought of something....the real reason why I started blogging. So in answer to "Why I blog?" I would like to re-answer that with this: We were living in Germany and I had about 5 different websites that I was trying to maintain in order to keep family and friends in contact with our family along with my monthly updates but month after month went by and no one ever replied so I began to wonder...does anyone even read what I write? Does anyone really even care??? When we started the adoption process it felt even more lonely...we stopped going to church because our "friends" would not talk about anything else except the wait and when were we going to get our babies? Because at that time we were hoping for twins. You don't know until you go through it how hard it is to face your friends week after week and that be the only thing on their minds. After a while I just couldn't handle it anymore and detached myself from them and poured myself out in my journal online. I went through a lot of emotional battles through my writing because that was the only way I felt I could express myself...and in the process I detached from many friends and a lot of relatives. When I joined my first yahoo group and met a bunch of ladies with similar interests and in the same boat as me, waiting endless month after month for their child to arrive, I felt like I'd found true friends. Friends that understood like none other and would be there through the tough times when all I needed was a shoulder to cry on or a friend to make me laugh. I didn't have to be happy ALL the time, I could just be me...and also I found out that there are people out there, just like me that love to express their feelings in written words. Having my first reply was like opening a gift..and then another and another! Each post is like Christmas! You all bless my heart so much and I cherish these words like only you could understand. I've been in a slump and haven't written much in a long time. I hope I can find that inner glow again because writing really makes me feel alive and rejuvenated. Thank You for asking questions to make me think and reflect back to the real reason WHY?
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