Weekend Learnings

Weekend learnings: 1) Where the class excuse slips are stashed 2) When best times are to sneak them 3) What the principal's signature really looks like 4) That we seem way more gullible than we are 5) There will be 4,897 alternate versions of how it all went down 6) There is FREEDOM & LIFE with truth telling!

Reflection and thoughts

Today...but 3 years ago, was the night that we had the first inkling that this foster care/adoption journey was going to get "interesting!" If only I'd known then what was ahead...I might have pulled the covers up over my head and stayed there for a very long time!! This, friends, is why God lets us know what we need to know when we need to know it! In addition, this is why we need to find humor and positives in small things; too much heartbreak over the past 3 years... However, seeing where we are now and what we've learned inspires us to continue to walk the journey, some days with more spring in our step than others! For those who have jumped in, seriously you saw the need and jumped to help us, encourage us, listen and or cry with us (there's not a ton of you, so you know who I'm talking to...I think of you as "Our Bucket Brigade!") we love you, thank you! For those ahead of us in the journey, (many of whom are in our Bucket Brigade!!) we are learning from you, thank you!! For those at the same step of the journey, we link arms with you, together we're stronger! For those who are just realizing their journey isn't what they expected...we get it. It's so crazy and hard, and really just sucks sometimes. Please know, you are not alone and you CAN do this!! Just keep swimming, find your village, surround yourself with supports, even if it's a small village to start; get them engaged in prayer with you and for you and hang on....don't forget we are here, we are part of your village!!! Above all remember, God knows, God cares, and He is there! He understands firsthand the struggle and cost of redeeming lives! Sincerest thank you to all who walk with us and to those who don't quite get it, that's okay...it's not your journey! !

For those who hurt on Mother's Day