Long Time no Write

Well it has been a long time since I last posted.  A week to the day of Hannah's adoption we got a phone call from DSS around 3:15 and at 6 we were at the hospital bringing home a 2 day old precious baby boy.  S has been with us ever since.  He is spoiled rotten and in to everything but is precious beyond words.  His smile just lights up the room especially his "cheesy grin".  I hope to get back blogging but life is always busy with an 11 year old and a 1 year old.  Hannah is doing great in school.  She has completed another year of Upward Basketball.  She had a speaking part in the Christmas play at church and did really well.  She is in chorus at school and loves to draw.  I only wish she shared some of her drawings with us but she is making others happy by giving them away so I guess that will be okay.  In January, I signed up for "Made To Crave" bible study.  It is totally changed my life and made me much more aware to my addictions with food.  Each week we were given a word of the week.  I used those words to make a Wordle that I hope will attach to this post.
http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/6467207/Made_To_Crave

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.