Long time
February 1st. That was a long time ago. That was the last time I had a blog post. It’s crazy how fast time flies. I was re-reading the last post and it was about our half-marathon run to raise money for the adoption. That run was December 19th. An even longer time ago. So you may be wondering why no blog posts for two months? Or maybe you’re not. I’m going to blame the winter. It was a long painful winter. I remember on December 19th it was 47 degrees when we were running. That’s a heat wave for December. Then January came around and Old Man Winter came out of hibernation and I immediately went into it. I’m now trying to get back into my mid-December running form. It’s amazing how fast you can loose your running mojo. I’m a far cry from where I was then but I have all spring and summer to get it back and loose it by winter. It’s the circle of life.
Well, on the adoption front the good news is that our paperwork is now in Ethiopia. All we do now is sit and wait……..and wait……..and wait. It’s a good feeling to know that it is now out of our hands. Now we just pray everyday for our child, our adoption, and that God would give us favor. That’s all we can do. I keep telling myself our adoption is in hands that are far bigger than mine. He is fully capable of handling our adoption and moving it along. He doesn’t need my help. We just need to be patient.
In the mean time, Shannon and I have been attending this parenting class at church. It has been great. It has mostly been teaching us common sensical parenting methods. Lucky for me my parents raised me in a similar manner to what we are learning in this class……way to go mom and dad. One thing I realized during this class that never occurred to me is that children today have so many distractions that even kids 10-15 years ago didn’t have and parents didn’t have to deal with. It seems now more than ever getting your child to engage with their mind and stay engaged can be challenging. My biggest fear is that all of this stuff we have learned is so fresh on my mind right now but I won’t be utilizing it for many more months. I’m going to have to dust off the cob webs and pull it out of the depths of my brain when the adoption is finally completed and we have a little boy or girl running around in the house with us. Good thing Shannon took good notes.
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