I WILL NEVER GIVE UP. HE WILL GRADUATE. HE WILL LIVE INDEPENDENTLY. HE WILL FIND TRUE LOVE. HE WILL SURVIVE. HE WILL SHOWER REGULARLY. OR I WILL DIE TRYING. ~MOM
Great blog Ali! The hubby and I have been talking about creating a website...but this looks like more fun...You have inspired me! Writing is the BEST therapy...I used to write A LOT! Then life got busy...what a lame excuse!
Can't wait to see after pics. $180 jeans?! Yikes... What kind of jeans were they...sagging kind like Doug's. :-X Does he always wear them like that or he's lost weight and they're falling down? lol.
Ali(40) & Ricky/Yogi(46) Crawford,
Kristin 20.5(college JUNIOR) Doug 18.5(Army National Guard soldier)
Jackson 13ish(adopted from HAITI in 03, living & thriving with HIV)
Kendyl 4.5(post infertility surprise bio child), and the grand finale
Shawn Alan Boone, 2 1/3, full African American, but very fair, (adopted at birth from Little Rock, Arkansas)
"The process of adopting a child pushes your personal envelope as a woman, as a mother, and ultimately, as a human being. It takes more courage than you think you have, offers more self-knowledge than you think you want, and resembles your characteristics into someone familiar but changed." -Jana Wolff, Secret Thoughts of an Adopted Mother
nature's first green is gold her hardest hue to hold her early leaf's a flower but only so an hour then leaf subsides to leaf so Eden sank to grief so dawn goes down to day nothing gold can stay -Robert Frost
here is goes
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all these thoughts
...they have to go somewhere
and *this* blog is my journal
I could just write it on a piece of paper
...but sharing it with you
it's* rea...
De-stash for me, giveaway for you!
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I am de-stashing my scrap studio tonight. Well, finishing up the de-stash I started several weeks ago, anyway. And I'm being totally brutal about what I'm ke...
Flashback Friday
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Breakfast With Avi Breakfast with Avi is not a peaceful time. This little girly has always been an early riser, and with the advent of Daylight savings, it's...
Finishing well
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Over the past two years my parents have started to talk about "finishing
well". What they mean by that was mostly related to what they would do with
the ...
Triplet Update…
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I am happy to tell you after only 10 days we have hit another milestone.
Last night all 3 girls woke up on their own, for food. Hope has been the
last ...
accepted and preparing!
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Kristin and Kate, here...So wow! We have both been accepted to the USAC
Puntarenas, Costa Rica program for the spring semester, 2010. We intend to
use this...
Feeling punk
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I just haven't felt like I had anything important to say lately. I gotta
get out of this funk. Of course, now I have a cold so that makes it worse.
My ...
Same cute girl, same cute shirt
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I found this shirt that G wore in Ethiopia the day we met, which was the
wedding of the orphanage director, Sidisse. Turns out it still fits
(although her...
It happened again...........
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On Thursday night at basketball practice Syfah was running and turned and
felt a “pop,” in his foot. If you recall a little over a year ago, Syfah
broke hi...
Another Boy
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Marie Lucie (pictured) had her baby boy Thursday night. Joranne had hers on
her due date, this morning around 10:45. Mark him down as yet another
healthy ...
Updating websites on my side bar
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I am going to up date the websites on my side bar. If you have a blog that
is not there and would like it listed could you give me the address? Please
let ...
Keeping the guns holstered
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Remember that book I read, Guns A'Blazing: How Parents of Children on the
Autism Spectrum and Schools Can Work Together Without a Shot Being Fired,
which i...
north india, part i – delhi & jaipur.
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(another picture-heavy post) after almost a month in the south of india, i
decided that we needed to take a short trip up north to see some of things
that ...
28 weeks
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Which means I only (or still) have 12 weeks left!!! It feels like a long
time when I sit down to nurse Christiana or go to make her a bottle. I'm
anxious ...
Baby Brother
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Bear's parents had a baby.Bear is now a big brother!The baby was born on October 4thwhen he was brought to the clinic (RHFH) he was almost two weeks old and ...
How much does the Tooth Fairy pay your kid?
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The Daughter recently lost her first tooth and had a visit from the Tooth
Fairy. Seems the other kids in her class got "a bundle of money" while the
fairy ...
making up for lost time
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Good evening!
I need to make up for some lost time (But it wasn't really lost at all, was
it? I know right where that time went.) and cover a few blogging ...
:::holding my head in my hands in horror:::
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Welp, now I really do have family members that read this, so I suppose I
shouldn't put a story like this in here.
I can't help it. It's just so... I don't ...
Mystic Aquarium
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Rich had a business trip to Mystic, Connecticut, and the kids and I were
able to go along. The hotel was right across from the aquarium, so it was
really ...
One Week
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Things are going surprisingly well. I am feeling emotionally strong,
although I am exhausted by about 9pm every night. For this night owl, that
is definite...
IT IS DONE!!!!!!!
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I meant to post yesterday but for some reason Blogger doesn't work with my
iphone except for reading and posting comments. I think there is a trick I'm
mis...
3rd Blogiversary of the J-M Blog!
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We've been keeping this blog for three years now! Crazy. But true.
So, as has become tradition...
please dear readers, dig way back into the archives of th...
Waiting…
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Not only are we waiting for our little boy in Uganda…but we are also waiting
on news of our little guy in Haiti. Oh, how I miss my Schnider-bug. We
haven’t...
Daddy's Little Helper
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Dennis loves to be outdoors. Especially with his Daddy. He is just a few
days away from riding a tricycle..... I think. He wants to make sure he will
know...
NO NEWS YET
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I haven't posted for a while, because there's not a lot happening. We did
meet with the young man and his wife, in new Castle, IN. They are a super
young c...
my head is spinning a million miles a minute...
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This morning I got the phone call from the hubster with news I totally was
NOT expecting to get....
He called to inform me that he was selected to go to Die...
halfway to the half
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I ran eight miles today. It was a great run and for the first time, I am
feeling totally confident that I am going to be able to pull off a half
marathon ...
Mommy-Swap!
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A friend of mine and I have been doing a mommy-swap for quite some time
now...a year? She has 2 small children, also. So about each week, I have her
kids f...
True love...again.
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My kids were not invited to my sister's wedding.
What?!? You didn't know my sister got married?
Hmm... must've forgot to mention it.
ANYway...
We have 2 pa...
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Okay, so here's the real deal people. This blog is suffering. You know it
and I know it. It's downright pathetic.
The problem is this: when you decide to b...
Love Letters
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I can handle all of the rejection, manipulation, lying, soiling, and sheer
anger around me largely because God has blessed me with so many wonderful
thing...
Adopting Still Isn't Easy......
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I am surprised to find that even though this is our 8th adoption (in 10
years) there are still more hurdles to resolve and emotions to experience.
The over...
Dear Mom,
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Dr. Bob says you are welcome to his docks anytime (actually, he has now made
that offer to ANY of our guests! WHOO! HOOO!). Come see me soon, Mom! You
can ...
Cake Boss? I think not...
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I think the cupcake skulls may very well be my culinary pinnacle. Tomorrow,
I'm throwing my oldest sister a birthday party. She is sixty...that used to
s...
2 comments:
Great blog Ali! The hubby and I have been talking about creating a website...but this looks like more fun...You have inspired me! Writing is the BEST therapy...I used to write A LOT! Then life got busy...what a lame excuse!
Can't wait to see after pics. $180 jeans?! Yikes... What kind of jeans were they...sagging kind like Doug's. :-X Does he always wear them like that or he's lost weight and they're falling down? lol.
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