Mommy's Heart

 Teacher Debbie Moon's first graders were
discussing a picture of a family. One little boy in the picture
had a different hair color than the other members . One of her
students suggested that he was adopted.
   A little girl said, 'I know all about
Adoption, I was adopted.'

   'What does it mean to be adopted?', asked
  another child.

     'It means', said the girl, 'that you grew
in your mommy's heart instead of her tummy!'

(dedicated to all adoptive and foster parents, especially my parents, Elton and Judy Teel, who adopted my brother and me and to my daughter and son in law, Amy and Jeff, who have opened their hearts to foster wonderful children)

Blessings

Today marked a new beginning for our family.  It has been a hard road to get to this point, but I feel very blessed to have made it thus far.  I have prayed that our family would be blessed with grandchildren.  My prayers have been answered.   And now I understand what a wonderful blessing each of these grandbabies truly is.   So lesson for today.... trust that good will triumph over evil.  And that hardened hearts will refind their way back to kindness, trust and good will.

Family and February

February.... the 2nd month of the year.... red and pink...colors associated often with this month....President's Day....Valentine's day..... A recent commercial said Valentine's Day is a day about "us". I like that. But February is my least favorite month of the year. February 3rd would have marked my parents 72nd wedding anniversary ( if they had been here ), my sweet Aunt Betty passed away on this day also..... February 14th marks the 5 year anniversary of my daddy leaving this earth and February 26th will be the 23rd anniversary of my mom leaving us. There is only 1 highlight for me in this, the shortest month of the year. That would be February 22nd. That was the day my beautiful Amy came officially into my life. So except for "Amy's Day", I dread February every year. If I could go from January straight to February 22, and then to March... I would.