Naomi and Adopting William!

We escorted Joy's best friend and fellow caustic girl Naomi home. She had her surgery a few weeks ago and can swallow now! Though her mother reports she refuses to swallow her spit still cause she says "It's gross"! So she is still using a spit cup!

But I discovered last week that they are adopting another special needs baby that was posted to our adoption group about the time I was in Liberia picking up the girls. They began to pray and felt that the Lord said "Yes! Bring this little one home!"

Please pray for them and read about this Sweet Liberian Angel!

What Peter Might Have Written...

This was sent to someone on our Adoption Yahoo group who shared it with us:

I read something yesterday to Jody...

What did Peter think when he saw Jesus walking on the water in the midst of the storm and what did the disciples think? They might have written about it the next day (had they written in a journal)...

"There are times in a person's life when, even in the midst of them, you know you'll never be the same. Moments that forever serve as journey posts. This was one. I had never seen Jesus as I saw him then. I had seen him as powerful. I had seen him as wise. I had witnessed his authority and marveled at his abilities. But what I witnessed last night, I know I'll never forget. I saw God. The God who can't sit still when the storm is too strong. The God who lets me get frightened enough to need him and then comes close enough for me to see him. The God who uses my storms as his path to come to me. I saw God. It took a storm for me to see him. But I saw him. And I'll never be the same."

(this was sent to me by our friends...Jody is dying of AIDS and her husband is her loving care giver)

This also reminded me of trials through adoption and life in general. God is there in the storm...He is always there.

Tagged!

I have been tagged by my blogging friend Darbi to tell 5 wierd things about myself. Hmmmm...Everything I do seems normal to me. So I asked my husband...NEVER, and I mean NEVER ask your husband for 5 wierd things about yourself! He was trying not to burst out laughing and said "Just five?" and then burst out laughing and walked away not wanting to touch the subject. So, I'm winging it!
1. The first time I ever saw snow was when I was 16. I grew up in Miami, Florida and didn't even see changing seasons till I was 17 when I moved to Colorado. I remember looking at the Sears & Robuck Catalog for Christmas as a child and wanting a sled and a snow suit every year and ya know, I never got one! Go figure!
2. I like to drink hot water. Comes from my days teaching in China. At the schools they have a wall with rows of spigots you walk up to with boiling hot water coming right out of it. Behind the wall are the big campus boilers. It is one way of knowing it is safe to drink. I don't think you could do that in the USA with Child safty laws.
3. I can't get rid of anything. My husband does not get this. I only bring things into my house that I like, so why would I get rid of it. What's not to understand!
4. I'm not a big fan of chocolate! Now licorice is another story!
5. I don't get sports. I have been trying to understand football for over 40 years but I just don't get it. It makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever. And I really don't get it from an eternal perspective. So much time and money wasted on a ball being thrown around with people ready to rip the other guys head off..for what?

OK there you have 5 things. Weird or not they seem normal to me!

Now I tag 5 more, I tag Amy P., Jen W., Stephanie S., Katie B., and Angel.

Sorry for the absense of posts but it was a hard couple of weeks. We were dealing with "Cheating". Mercy discovered "The Teacher Manuels". Suddenly she started getting 100%'s on her math. We let her continue for a week and then put a note in the manuel that said "Give a man a fish, he eats for a day, TEACH a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime. Mercy, If you continue to cheat, you will always just eat for a day. If you want to be a doctor, you must learn to fish for a lifetime. The choice is yours." She would not confess but hasn't been cheating anymore. She had me to pray with her because "her heart was heavy" she said. I know the Lord is working in her heart. She has a sweet, sweet spirit, BUT she is street smart, I now lock up the curriculum cabinet!

I will post soon as we may be coming closer to a decision on surgeries for the girls. Stay tuned!!!

Just an FYI...Mercy has now gained 22lbs since she came here on December 10th!