tales of joy and frustration
Listed are the posts for November 2008.
This is probably the most beautiful story I will ever have the privilege to tell. Forgive me if this is a long entry, but there is so much to tell and I don’t want you to miss any of the details—especially for those of you who have traveled on this journey with me for so [...]
When I selected the clothes the girls would wear this morning, it struck me that I was quite possibly selecting the last outfit their mother would ever see them wear. It’s a small thing that doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things, but it mattered to me this morning and I tried to choose [...]
Tomorrow afternoon (Wednesday), Hope and Faith will see their parents for one last visit, during which they will be told that their parents are going to relinquish their parental rights and put the girls up for adoption. I can’t imagine being 3 and 8 (almost 9) years old and being told that, and I can’t [...]
This morning I found myself stretching my guts out across Faith’s top bunk in the dark at 2:30 a.m. saying a silent prayer to God that I could manage to figure out how to get the new sheet to fit on her bed. It’s times like these when I find myself thinking “this will make [...]
Two and a half hours!!! I slept for two and half hours Sunday afternoon. That is the longest nap I have taken in eight months. Faith watched some movies and Hope slept that long too (so she was a little challenging to put to bed that evening), but I am still glowing from my super [...]
Why is it that I am ALWAYS writing about Hope going to the doctor? After coughing all night long, Hope was running a bit of a fever this morning. The fever was low, but given that it was the day before the weekend, I called in and took the morning off from work to take [...]
One thing I can say about parenting is that it is never boring. From what I could piece together (since I was doing dishes in the kitchen at the time), I believe Hope attempted to climb up onto by bathroom counter to get the Barbie band-aids from the medicine cabinet I had regretfully left standing [...]