Today we got to see new pictures of Owen! We are so excited, but a little sad to see how much he has changed. His pictures are so cute though! You can't be upset for long. He looks very happy & healthy. To say we are thrilled to have new pictures would be an understatement. I am dying to post the pictures for everyone to see. But I don't want to post them to the blog until things are final with the adoption. If you are dying to see his new pictures leave your e-mail address in the comment section. If I know who you are I'll send them to you!.
Still no word on travel. There is hope it will be before Christmas. We need to get this little baby home by then!
What a great day!
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
1 Year
What does one year look like since DTV?
70 + e-mails from adoption agency
280 + e-mails to and from adoption friends.
and not one e-mail about travel to Vietnam.
UGH
70 + e-mails from adoption agency
280 + e-mails to and from adoption friends.
and not one e-mail about travel to Vietnam.
UGH
Friday, October 12, 2007
With Love to Adoptive Parents Poem
This poem was sent from our agency today. The author is unknown, but I LOVE this poem.
With Love to Adoptive Parents
You cannot change the truth
these are your children but they come from somewhere else
and they are the children of those places
and of those persons as well.
Help them to know all about their past
and all about their present.
Help them to know that they are from extended families,
that they only have one set of parents
but that they have more mothers and fathers…
They have grandmothers, godmothers, birthmothers, mother countries and mother earth.
They have grandfathers, godfathers, birthfathers and fatherlands.
They have family by birth and by adoption
they have family by choice and by chance.
Childhood is short
They are our children to raise.
They are our children to love
and then they are citizens of the world.
What we do to them creates the world that we live in.
Give them life.
Give them their truth.
Give them love.
Give them all that they came with.
Give them all that they grow with.
Your children do not belong to you
But they belong with you.
You cannot keep from them what is theirs
But you can keep loving them.
You do not own your children,
But they are your own.
With Love to Adoptive Parents
You cannot change the truth
these are your children but they come from somewhere else
and they are the children of those places
and of those persons as well.
Help them to know all about their past
and all about their present.
Help them to know that they are from extended families,
that they only have one set of parents
but that they have more mothers and fathers…
They have grandmothers, godmothers, birthmothers, mother countries and mother earth.
They have grandfathers, godfathers, birthfathers and fatherlands.
They have family by birth and by adoption
they have family by choice and by chance.
Childhood is short
They are our children to raise.
They are our children to love
and then they are citizens of the world.
What we do to them creates the world that we live in.
Give them life.
Give them their truth.
Give them love.
Give them all that they came with.
Give them all that they grow with.
Your children do not belong to you
But they belong with you.
You cannot keep from them what is theirs
But you can keep loving them.
You do not own your children,
But they are your own.
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