Hannah's Adoption Story

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How to Cook the Thanksgiving Meal

This year I asked my students what they like to eat for Thanksgiving. Using a graphic organizer students were able to write how they think you cook the food that they enjoy eating. We made a Voice Thread for all the recipes that were made. You can listen to each student tell how they would cook their dish. You can also click on the comment section and type or speak a comment to one or all of the voice threads. We hope you enjoy How we would cook the Thanksgiving meal.
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Thank You God Shutterfly Book

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A Happy One Year Ago

One year ago today Hannah came to live with us.  It has been an exciting and interesting year.  We have had a lot of fun together going places such as Discovery Place, Bicentennial Garden, Hickory especially Mimi and Papa's and Glenn Hilton Park, etc.   We have also enjoyed time together at home making a gingerbread house, playing board games, reading books, watching movies, cooking together, etc. 
We are excited that the adoption social worker came Thursday and we are all planing on being finished with all paperwork and home visits and being in the courthouse for the adoption ceremony on Hannah's 10th birthday.

One Year Ago

One year ago today Jason, H,and I were doing laundry and packing to prepare to leave the next day on vacation.  Around 5:00, we got a phone call saying we had to return H to DSS because the judge was allowing her to live out of state with a relative.  We were all three completely and totally heartbroken.  Within an hour she was packed up and on the way back to DSS.  We knew that this would be the hardest part about foster care and at one point the reason we were not going to do foster care.  After hearing another couple say that if God gave them a child through foster care just long enough for God to know someone would be praying for that child then it was worth the heartache of losing them, we decided to do foster care.  Yes that was one of if not the hardest days of my life but after a year a day has not gone by that she has not been prayed for. 

The Final Space Flight

Today I watched NASA space shuttle Atlantis leave Earth, marking the program's final flight. It is unclear as to what will happen to the space program.  It has been said that there will be no more space flights.  Does this mean that there will be no more astronauts?  What about NASA?  It is sad to think that 5 or 10 years from now children will not know what an astronaut was or what a space shuttle looked like.  It is so hard to believe that this is yet again something that will have to be taught from a textbook or the internet.  My heart is heavy for the ones that will either be without a job or will have to go and work for the Russians.  I guess this is just another job that is being sent overseas.  What about the kids right now that have only dreamed of being astronauts...what will happen to their dream?