Thursday, February 14, 2008
Oh YEAH!!!!
So, today, I got up at a resonable time. I got ready for work, ate breakfast, and picked up my stuff to head out the door for work. I saw that I had two voicemails on my phone and deliberated whether or not to listen to them at home or at work. (Work is two minutes away.) I decided to listen to them on my way to work. As I am walking out the door (the door was actually open) I heard the sweet voice of our secretary telling me that our school district has shut down all of the schools for a snow day. YIPPEEEEEE!!! I HAVE NEVER HAD A SNOW DAY!!!! I'VE ALWAYS WANTED A SNOW DAY!!!! Too bad Shawn is in Richfield for the 1A State Tournament for girls' basketball, we would totally go outside and play. (We REALLY love the snow.) Happy Valentines Day to me! I am going to read books and watch movies all day!
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Sports Junkies
My first hockey game...go Avs! (Christmas 2006)
BYU Baseball Spring 2007
Phillies Baseball at... 
Citizens Bank Park, PA this summer.
Denver University Hockey vs. Sacred Heart over Christmas break
Let's just say that if it has anything to do with a sport, Shawn digs it! Baseball is his weakness though. His goal is to visit every major league baseball park in the U.S. (as well as every state). Here we come!
Adoption Gives Me Hope
We are getting into the intense paperwork required for approval at LDSFS and it has been a week full of a roller coaster of emotion. We have so much to do and I wish that I could just call in sick to work and finish it all in two days, but some things require time. What first seemed like torture, has become an opportunity to really ponder. I am so grateful for adoption! I am grateful for people who have a testimony of adoption.
Before we found out that we were sterile, we had a very difficult two years. Every month we dreamed, longed, and ached, and those feelings intensified with time. When the doctor gave us the news, we were stunned. I was so upset that I cried and cried for days. I was mourning the death of a dream that was so much a part of me, I never considered my life or my role as a mother as anything different. My concept of motherhood only included me bearing our biological children with Shawn's beautiful dark eyes and my stunningly peaked lips. Although I still sometimes mourn the loss of the opportunity to bear biological children, I have a different dream, a different concept of motherhood, and I am so excited. I am not so worried about our children looking like us, as I am for the opportunity to be their mom. I don't dream of positive pregnancy tests or maternity clothes anymore, I dream of phone calls and pray for birth parents who, I know, are making such difficult decisions. Adoption was never the path through which I ever imagined I would become a mother, but now that I know it is my path, I am ecstatic. Adoption gives me hope!
Before we found out that we were sterile, we had a very difficult two years. Every month we dreamed, longed, and ached, and those feelings intensified with time. When the doctor gave us the news, we were stunned. I was so upset that I cried and cried for days. I was mourning the death of a dream that was so much a part of me, I never considered my life or my role as a mother as anything different. My concept of motherhood only included me bearing our biological children with Shawn's beautiful dark eyes and my stunningly peaked lips. Although I still sometimes mourn the loss of the opportunity to bear biological children, I have a different dream, a different concept of motherhood, and I am so excited. I am not so worried about our children looking like us, as I am for the opportunity to be their mom. I don't dream of positive pregnancy tests or maternity clothes anymore, I dream of phone calls and pray for birth parents who, I know, are making such difficult decisions. Adoption was never the path through which I ever imagined I would become a mother, but now that I know it is my path, I am ecstatic. Adoption gives me hope!
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