The day our adventure began!
Here we come, China!
Monthly Archives: November 2015
Tomorrow!
My blog, one year ago:
Are we going to China tomorrow?
I don’t think so. It isn’t possible, is it?
Come on, people, give me some grace: I haven’t convinced myself yet that we are going to CHINA!
During our first adoption, I never would have guessed that we would ever do an international adoption. We actually wanted to do a second domestic adoption… but that door was closed–God closed it. Because he knew Lucy was out there for us.
He knew she needed us… and we needed her.
We weren’t thinking China either, it was just an open door. It was just the option that seemed like it was the best fit for our family.
Lucy was born in 2006… the year we went to Florida as a family (at the time, which was without M and Lucy 
)
I wonder what my little five-year-old self was doing that day when, on the other side of the world, things were happening that would change my life–forever.
Forever and ever! More than I ever dreamed when I wrote that!
Throwback Thursday came just in time for this! Tomorrow I’m going to start a series of pictures and re-posts to recap our China trip, this time last year. I’m going to post every day we were in China, if I can manage it!
Happy Thursday!
??? {Mystery Quote #28} ???
Hey, guys! I’ve had my blog up and running for one year today! In that year I’ve written 216 posts (not including this one), and received 1,839 comments. Thank you so much to all of you for living with my weirdness and forget-to-post-ness, and thank you to everyone who commented even one of those thousand comments! I love to get your feedback! I would link to my first post, but it’s. . . boring. Okay, since you guys all want to read it now, here it is. Anyway,
Last week’s quote was from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Chapter 59.
Awesome, awesome book! Spencer J Rothfuss gets brownie-points for being the only one to recognize that fabulous quote!
And now, I have some bad news:
This is the last “Mystery Quote” for a while.
Later this week I’ll be starting some posts about China (that anniversary is coming up this week too!), and then I’ll do some Christmas posts–and then The Sacrifice, if I ever find a way to finish it! 🙂
And so, considering this is our anniversary, and you guys won’t have a quote to guess, I’d like everyone who reads this to comment. I’d love to know who’s out there! Please just say how you found my blog and, if you’re a regular reader, why you read my blog. And if you have any other comments or questions, go ahead!
I’m all ears!
??? {Mystery Quote #27} ???
Hi, guys. I’m back. Sorry I didn’t get this done yesterday.
It was from The Princess Bride by William Goldman. Both quotes were from Chapter 5: “The Announcement”. The [he] in the first quote was “The Count” and the [it] was “the Fire Swamp”.
And. . . nobody guessed it. Really, I should have seen that coming, since I didn’t think any of you had read it! Anyway, this week’s quote is from a wonderful book I would recommend to anyone:
“. . . Now, when suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but–I hope–into a better shape. Be as considerate and good to me as you were, and tell me we are friends.”
Happy guessing!
Today is Orphan Sunday! This is a video Spencer made of all the families at our church who have adopted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-Xm9vd4aFs
If you want to hear more of my thoughts on adoption, read this, this, this, this, and this.
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“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”
-James 1:27
Adoption is God’s command to His church. And I wouldn’t have it any other way. I have never seen anything that can be so ugly, but it can be so beautiful–so beautiful.
But real beauty always goes hand-‘n-hand with ugliness in this world.
Adoption can be sad. It can be convicting. It can be humbling. Because every one of us needs to be adopted. Every one of us needs to be redeemed.
We love, because we are loved.
We give, because we have received.
We care for orphans, because we were orphans.
We adopt, because we were adopted.
Archery
Mom and Dad gave me my birthday present early last Thursday:
Is she a beauty, or what? Somebody loves me!
(And knows me very, very well! 😉 )
Happy Saturday!
October Sunshine. . . kind-of
Just one more! I couldn’t resist!
This one isn’t as funny, but I always liked it:
And he wondered if being a Faithful Knight meant that you just went on being faithful without being told things. (342)
–The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh: The House at Pooh Corner, by A.A. Milne
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Last week’s quote came from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis, Chapter 12: “The Queen of Underland”.
Katie correctly guessed everything, and Micaiah, Ellen, and Juliana guessed the book and author–and Juliana gets brownie-points (again) because I love the way she just describes what part of the book it happens in, instead of saying what chapter it is!
Okay, I’ve quoted this one before, but it’s been a while:
“We’ll follow as best we can,” [he] said. He stared again at [it]. “He must be very desperate, or very frightened, or very stupid, or very brave.” “Very all four I should think,” the Prince replied.
And I decided to throw in two, since there are so many good “Mystery Quote” quotes in that book:
. . . and surely sooner of later, there would be an answering “yes.” But it didn’t come sooner. And later wasn’t the kind of thing you wanted to hold your breath for either.
Happy guessing!