I remember back one night, when I was about 5 or 6 years old, we rented the movie Fievel: An American Tale. There was a part in the movie where Fievel gets seperated from his parents and sings this song, Somewhere Out There. I can still vividly remember breaking down in tears when he sang that song, and feeling so sad for him that he had lost his parents. To this day, hearing that song still makes me tear up!
So today as I was browsing through the http://www.families.com/ website, I came across an article an adoptee had written about her search for her biological mother, and a collaboration of songs she had put together that comforted her during her search. She notes that the song 'Somewhere out there' was one of her favorites. I couldn't help but think back to that day when I cried so hard for Fievel, and now wonder how many kids out there must feel like Fievel did on the day they were seperated from their parents.
So I decided to look up the lyrics for this song; and oddly enough, while this song still makes me a little sad, I can't help but compare the words to exactly how we are feeling right now, praying that we'll find that special little person and loving that little someone, 'somewhere out there'.
Somewhere out there
Beneath the pale moonlight
Someone's thinking of me
And loving me tonight
Somewhere out there
Someone's saying a prayer
That we'll find one another
In that big somewhere out there
And even though I know
How very far apart we are
It helps to think we might be wishing
On the same bright star
And when the night wind
Starts to sing a lonesome lullaby
It helps to think we're sleeping
Underneath the same big sky
Somewhere out there
If love can see us through
Then we'll be together
Somewhere out there
Out where dreams come true
And even though I know
How very far apart we are
It helps to think we might be wishing
on the same bright star
And when the night wind
Starts to sing a lonesome lullaby
It helps to think we're sleeping
Underneath the same big sky
Somewhere out there
If love can see us through
Then we'll be together
Somewhere out there
Out where dreams come true...
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
Blanket Update :)
I haven't worked on the blanket very much over the past six weeks, but plan to get back in gear and make some progress on it. I think I made it way to long...seems to take forever to get to the next row! She'll be able to cover her entire bed with it by the time I'm done!
We've submitted our home study a few times this month already. We've heard back from a couple of the workers too, which is always so nice! It can be really frustrating when you email and leave messages inquiring about different kids and you never hear anything back. I'm sure they're really busy and they're constantly bombarded with inquiries, but still...it's really frustrating!
I read this article today about the children of Haiti whose plans to be adopted by U.S. families are now in limbo due to the earthquake. I just can't imagine what these parents are going through. To be so close to having your children home and then have something so terrible happen. Those poor kids over there. I just can't even imagine. I wish there was more we could do. Hopefully they will figure out a way to expedite all these cases and get these kids over here quickly.
If you would like to donate to the American Red Cross to help with the Haiti relief effort, you can do so here.
We've submitted our home study a few times this month already. We've heard back from a couple of the workers too, which is always so nice! It can be really frustrating when you email and leave messages inquiring about different kids and you never hear anything back. I'm sure they're really busy and they're constantly bombarded with inquiries, but still...it's really frustrating!
I read this article today about the children of Haiti whose plans to be adopted by U.S. families are now in limbo due to the earthquake. I just can't imagine what these parents are going through. To be so close to having your children home and then have something so terrible happen. Those poor kids over there. I just can't even imagine. I wish there was more we could do. Hopefully they will figure out a way to expedite all these cases and get these kids over here quickly.
If you would like to donate to the American Red Cross to help with the Haiti relief effort, you can do so here.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
As sad as I am that the Holidays are over, I am so happy to be back into our regular routine again. 2009 was quite a busy year for us. The first half of the year was filled with wedding planning and also with getting our home study completed. At the time I thought preparing for both of those things would never end, but looking back I can't believe how fast they both went. By the beginning of July our home study was complete and we were officialy waiting to be matched. Four weeks later Steve and I were married and more than ready to enjoy the last few weeks of summer.
The rest of the fall was fairly uneventful - we celebrated T's ninth birthday and Thanksgiving in November and looked forward to spending Christmas and New Years with our family at my moms house. Our December took a turn for the worst when I received a early morning telephone call from my Aunt that my dad's health had taken a turn for the worst. Unfortunately, my dad lost his battle with cancer that day. But I am grateful that I was able to be with him during his final moments and that he is no longer suffering.
So now, we are looking forward to an exciting new year. We hope and pray that this year blesses us with a long awaited addition to our family. We don't have a whole lot planned for this year. Just a few little things - we plan to put new sheetrock and insulation up in the sun room in order to make it a television and play room for the kids. With everything we had going on last summer I didn't get to do a lot of planting, so a small garden and lots of flowers is on the agenda for the summer as well. We also hope to get in lots of camping time and are planning to take a week and go the Black Hills of South Dakota, or the Wisconsin Dells. We have our fingers crossed that we will be able to share all these things with another little one!!!
Happy 2010 everyone!!
The rest of the fall was fairly uneventful - we celebrated T's ninth birthday and Thanksgiving in November and looked forward to spending Christmas and New Years with our family at my moms house. Our December took a turn for the worst when I received a early morning telephone call from my Aunt that my dad's health had taken a turn for the worst. Unfortunately, my dad lost his battle with cancer that day. But I am grateful that I was able to be with him during his final moments and that he is no longer suffering.
So now, we are looking forward to an exciting new year. We hope and pray that this year blesses us with a long awaited addition to our family. We don't have a whole lot planned for this year. Just a few little things - we plan to put new sheetrock and insulation up in the sun room in order to make it a television and play room for the kids. With everything we had going on last summer I didn't get to do a lot of planting, so a small garden and lots of flowers is on the agenda for the summer as well. We also hope to get in lots of camping time and are planning to take a week and go the Black Hills of South Dakota, or the Wisconsin Dells. We have our fingers crossed that we will be able to share all these things with another little one!!!
Happy 2010 everyone!!
Friday, December 4, 2009
Well, I don't have anything very exciting update you all about, but I figured its been awhile since I posted anything so I thought I'd better get with the program ;)
We've submitted for a few kiddos over the past month and unfortunately haven't heard much. I will tell you though; we submitted for a little girl a few days ago that I have a good feeling about. So if everyone could say a little extra prayer that this is the one, I would really appreciate it!
We set up our tree last weekend and while I was dragging out the Christmas decorations I found a set of decorations I had bought last year right after Christmas - two sets of childrens Christmas decorations; one for a girl and one for a boy (for T of course). I remember wondering as I bought them last year if we would be decorating a little tree with them our next Christmas, and of course hoping that we indeed would be. Now here we are, a year later...still waiting. So let's pray that next year those decorations will be hanging from a miniature tree :)
Our Thanksgiving was fantastic! We spent Thursday at my moms house with my sister and her family. Friday I was up early with the other crazy people standing in line at the mall at 4:00 a.m. - Arrived home around 7:30 and rested for a couple hours before T and I went out again :) Saturday we headed down to Clearwater to spend the night at Steve's daughters house and to celebrate Thanksgiving and M's 2nd birthday. It was a wonderful four days off, surrounded by wonderful people :) We can't wait until we have another one to share these moments with!
Peace :)
We've submitted for a few kiddos over the past month and unfortunately haven't heard much. I will tell you though; we submitted for a little girl a few days ago that I have a good feeling about. So if everyone could say a little extra prayer that this is the one, I would really appreciate it!
We set up our tree last weekend and while I was dragging out the Christmas decorations I found a set of decorations I had bought last year right after Christmas - two sets of childrens Christmas decorations; one for a girl and one for a boy (for T of course). I remember wondering as I bought them last year if we would be decorating a little tree with them our next Christmas, and of course hoping that we indeed would be. Now here we are, a year later...still waiting. So let's pray that next year those decorations will be hanging from a miniature tree :)
At my moms :)
Peace :)
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
New ABC Series
Last night ABC aired the first epidsode of a new series called "Find My Family" and its definitely one of my new favorites! It's a tear jerker of a show that involves loved ones searching for their birth parents, birth children or loved ones they've lost touch with. Definitely check it out if you get the chance....and make sure you have a box of Kleenex close by because you'll need them!!
Thursday, November 5, 2009
T and I recently started to crochet a blanket together for kiddo #2. I crocheted one for T before he was born and thought it would be a good way to pass the time and let her know we were thinking of her long before she was here. I let T pick the colors - he went with hot pink, turqouise and purple. I crocheted a few rows and then T worked on it for a little bit. We've came quite a ways since this picture. I'll have to take an updated one soon!
Friday, October 16, 2009
While we wait
Yes, it's the middle of the night and here I am, blogging. It's not very often that I am able to just sit and surf the net, catch up on all the celebrity gossip and check every one of the 1,416 waiting children photolistings I have bookmarked, without a single interruption :) So, you guessed it; the hubby is out of town. Steve drove down to the cities this evening to help his daughter and son in law build a deck on their house. My mom came up this weekend and we spent the day shopping in Fargo. After visiting five, yes 5, count them with me 1,2,3,4,5, Halloween costume stores, T finally found a Halloween costume. He is going as a Special Operations Officer, which is a fancy title for a black long sleeved shirt with a black vest and camoflauge plants (which cost me $29.99 YIKES!) But at that moment I probably would have spent any amount just to find a costume that fit him! Do these costume manufactureres not know that children in Minnesota must wear 12 layers of clothing under their costumes?! We almost had to resort to an adult mans costumes and the ones suitable for an eight year old in that genre were few and far between. But, it turned out well - he's happy with what we found and after that we relieved our mornings shopping frustrations with a large stack of pancakes from IHOP :) We then wrapped up the night eating popcorn and watching Plains, Trains and Automobiles. LOVE that movie!
We had the honor of meeting with Claudia Fletcher on Thursday night. She's an Adoption Matching Specialist with Adopt America Network and also author of the book "Out of Many, One Family: How Two Adults Claimed Twelve Children through Adoption" (which by the way is an awesome book, I couldn't put it down!) If you're thinking about or waiting to adopt from the U.S. foster care system it is a must read! Claudia gave us some tips on different things to do while we wait that would benefit us. One was to make a personalized family profile page; which I planned to do tonight until I realized for some odd reason Microsoft Publisher is missing from my computer..hmm. I am very excited to start one and have already been doing some research on things to do to our profile that would make it unique from others.
Other than our meeting with Claudia, things have been quiet on the adoption front. We've submitted our home studies for a couple different kiddos in the past couple weeks but no news. Last weekend we picked out a bedroom door for the downstairs room that will be mine and Steve's new bedroom once kiddo #2 is here. We haven't started moving anything down there yet though. We'll save that project for the winter months.
Goodnight everyone!
Dawn
We had the honor of meeting with Claudia Fletcher on Thursday night. She's an Adoption Matching Specialist with Adopt America Network and also author of the book "Out of Many, One Family: How Two Adults Claimed Twelve Children through Adoption" (which by the way is an awesome book, I couldn't put it down!) If you're thinking about or waiting to adopt from the U.S. foster care system it is a must read! Claudia gave us some tips on different things to do while we wait that would benefit us. One was to make a personalized family profile page; which I planned to do tonight until I realized for some odd reason Microsoft Publisher is missing from my computer..hmm. I am very excited to start one and have already been doing some research on things to do to our profile that would make it unique from others.
Other than our meeting with Claudia, things have been quiet on the adoption front. We've submitted our home studies for a couple different kiddos in the past couple weeks but no news. Last weekend we picked out a bedroom door for the downstairs room that will be mine and Steve's new bedroom once kiddo #2 is here. We haven't started moving anything down there yet though. We'll save that project for the winter months.
Goodnight everyone!
Dawn
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