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Who's Feeling Lucky?

So, as most of you know, India is a country that is near and dear to my heart. In January, I'll be travelling with a group to Andhra Pradesh to volunteer at Sarah's Covenant Homes. If you haven't met Sarah , then you should! She is one of the most amazing, dynamic, selfless, funny, and giving people I've ever come across. Not only does she have a heart for India, but she has a heart for abandoned children who have special needs. Currently, Sarah has 44 children and she's taking in 10 new children next week. Can you imagine the cost of parenting 54 kids?? We're trying to raise money to help make things a bit easier on Sarah and her kids. SCH has only been up and running for about 2 years now. So they're still needing lots of stuff: wheelchairs, strollers, walkers, educational toys, clothes, and school supplies. 11 of us will be travelling to Sarah's in January and we can take 2 suitcases each. Let's fill those babies up! To help raise money to buy

Ever Have One of Those Weeks???

Well, it's been a truly frustrating week. One of my kids has a birthday today and the week leading up to it has been awful. We really turned a corner in the last few months, but this week... whoa, did we slide back down the hill. Good grief. There's been peeing in the bed for the last 4 days and today, birthday day, was greeted with pee soaked sheets and two "accidentally" turned over bowls of cereal at the breakfast table. Happy Birthday! Actually, this is not the birthday post. I'll do a proper one later. Things really had been going great. About 90% better and we were so proud of our little RADling. It's just amazing how things like birthday and holidays can cause regression. In other news from the week of H-E-double hockey sticks, we pulled Eli out of school and then stuck his little bottom right back in two days later. That deserves an entire blog post dedicated to just that. Someday. What I can say is that I've been played. Played hard. It's a sc

Family Needed

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I have had the great pleasure of meeting so many fabulous people through the blogging world. It's amazing how different circumstances - circumstances that can bring you to your knees - can connect you with people who care - and who understand exactly what you're going through. Mainly because they've gone through it themselves. Many, many months ago I was able to connect with Corey. She's beautiful and funny. She's an adoptive mom, too. And a RAD mom, too. She and her family have had to make the most agonizing decision to disrupt the adoption of their 8 year old son. I hate to use the word disrupt because it makes it sound like they're giving up or being really casual about it... like taking a puppy back to the shelter if it gives you too much trouble. That is NOT the case. Sometimes you just can't know what it's like unless you've walked in someone else's shoes. And, sometimes, you have to make decisions that just plainly make you want to die.

Look Who's Eight!

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My sweet little Noah Bear is turning 8 today!! 8!!! I've already been gently reminded by my husband that it's a bit pointless to get teary-eyed over the fact that Noah will be 12 in four years. I think he muttered something along the lines of, "Good grief, woman, get a grip!" But I can't help it. My baby is growing up!! I'm going to share something with all of you that might make me sound like like a looney..... but a few years ago, I was in a really terrible place - and in the midst of my despair, I heard God's voice speak to me. Now, there are three times in my life that I've heard God's voice and this was one of them. And He said that Noah would talk between the ages of 8 and 9... so much in fact that I would jokingly regret praying for it all these years! It's really taking a lot for me to write this out and publicly broadcast it. I mean, what if it wasn't God's voice talking to me? What if it was my imagination and I'm going t

A Toss to the Future

A few months after I turned twenty, I hit a crossroads in my life. I had become disillusioned with college and was being strung along in a dead end relationship that I needed to end but didn't have the strength to do so. I needed to find a way to escape from everything. I needed excitement in my life and I needed adventure in my life.... and I needed to find a way to get out of taking mandatory Calculus in the Spring semester. So I signed up to study abroad. I was certain that it was going to be the start of a new me.... a single me... and just the ticket I needed to get out of taking that dreaded math class. I wanted to leave as soon as possible, but I couldn't decide where to go. So I narrowed my choices down to England and France. Mainly because at twenty years old, the world revolved around my social life and I was pretty sure that England and France had the cutest guys on the European continent. So much for the new and single me, eh? I'd never been to either country...

Somebody Get Me a Hamburger! Stat!

Yes, I'm still here. Considerably lighter, as you'll find out in a minute. But first things first.... Our computer is still hijacked with a virus. Actually, we've been too busy to take it to get fixed, so we're still scamming... er, I mean, borrowing my parents' laptop for the time being. And since Noah's attracted to the keyboard and the blinking lights, we have to turn it off everytime we get off it... which means, we've canceled all opportunity for me to be seduced by the come hither and check thy email looks everytime I walk by, so I haven't been on it much lately. Okay, so the real truth is that I'm just too lazy to turn it on and wait for it to boot up. Plus, Sim's still working crazy long hours and someone has to do the parenting around here. And even though Eli thinks he's the boss of the house, he's definitely not, so I'm having to step up and do some parental duties which includes, but is not limited to carting them off to