Friday, February 22, 2013
{this moment}
{this moment} à la SouleMama - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Nothing and Everything
These days, it seems, I have a lot and nothing at all to say, all at the same time. James has been home recuperating following his shoulder surgery (which went really well), and we have been spending lots of quality family time together. Around here, that means playing football - a lot of football, reading, creating, playing with water outside, enjoying our meals, and spending time at the playground each evening until the sun has set.
We've also had adoption on the brain more often than not, and have been spending quite a bit of time talking about all the different facets of it - of our own personal journey as a family, and of adoption in general. We're making lists and researching flights and vaccinations, and waiting. The social worker handling our home study update should have the update completed in the next few weeks, and then we'll send it off to USCIS for them to update our approval. Our referral could come at any time once the update is complete.
Have we mentioned how huge the referral is?
That email is the one that will make our hearts skip a beat and stop us right in our tracks. That'll be the email with our sweet boy's face in it, his name, his background information, his medical information. That will be the email that make things much more urgent and much more slow, so much easier and so much harder, all at the same time.
Whew. I so often imagine what that will be like and I know that I cannot even imagine it. We're full of contradictions around here.
While we wait, we're trying to put our energy into what's before us right now. We're trying to delight in the little things, which are, really, the big things. Trying to, as Ann Voskamp puts it, "Go slow. Be God-struck. Grant grace. Live Truth. Give Thanks. Love well."
We've also had adoption on the brain more often than not, and have been spending quite a bit of time talking about all the different facets of it - of our own personal journey as a family, and of adoption in general. We're making lists and researching flights and vaccinations, and waiting. The social worker handling our home study update should have the update completed in the next few weeks, and then we'll send it off to USCIS for them to update our approval. Our referral could come at any time once the update is complete.
Have we mentioned how huge the referral is?
That email is the one that will make our hearts skip a beat and stop us right in our tracks. That'll be the email with our sweet boy's face in it, his name, his background information, his medical information. That will be the email that make things much more urgent and much more slow, so much easier and so much harder, all at the same time.
Whew. I so often imagine what that will be like and I know that I cannot even imagine it. We're full of contradictions around here.
While we wait, we're trying to put our energy into what's before us right now. We're trying to delight in the little things, which are, really, the big things. Trying to, as Ann Voskamp puts it, "Go slow. Be God-struck. Grant grace. Live Truth. Give Thanks. Love well."
Friday, February 15, 2013
{this moment}
{this moment} à la SouleMama - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
Friday, February 8, 2013
{this moment}
{this moment} à la SouleMama - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Hut, hut!
Someone has been all about football for quite some time now, so naturally there's a game played in the living room, in the backyard, or at the playground at least once a day.
So you can imagine how excited we were to be able to take him to the Pro Bowl practice on Thursday, and then the game on Sunday.
We got poured on at the practice, but AJ had fun playing in a huge pile of sand and we got a kick out of hearing him yell "Mr. Peppers! Mr. Peppers!" while we waited to ask Chicago Bears defensive end Julius Peppers for his autograph.
The ProBowl was fun, too, even if traffic was crazy and "dinner" cost way too much. At least those things were to be expected, and AJ's interest in the game more than made up for it. He asked questions and tried to follow along with what was happening the whole time, so there was lots of talk of quarterbacks, receivers, running backs, tackling, incomplete passes, interceptions, touchdowns, and field goals; hearing all of those words in a little person's voice makes us smile every time.
So you can imagine how excited we were to be able to take him to the Pro Bowl practice on Thursday, and then the game on Sunday.
We got poured on at the practice, but AJ had fun playing in a huge pile of sand and we got a kick out of hearing him yell "Mr. Peppers! Mr. Peppers!" while we waited to ask Chicago Bears defensive end Julius Peppers for his autograph.
The ProBowl was fun, too, even if traffic was crazy and "dinner" cost way too much. At least those things were to be expected, and AJ's interest in the game more than made up for it. He asked questions and tried to follow along with what was happening the whole time, so there was lots of talk of quarterbacks, receivers, running backs, tackling, incomplete passes, interceptions, touchdowns, and field goals; hearing all of those words in a little person's voice makes us smile every time.
Friday, February 1, 2013
{this moment}
{this moment} à la SouleMama - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
