Thrills of Life As A Denver Mom Blogger
I wish for you a 2013 full of the harmony, peace, love, joy and amazement at the possibilities that each and every ordinary day holds for us.
I wish for you 365 days of amazing examples of what we are capable of accomplishing just like this.
Thanks for sharing this Kristin. It is exactly what I needed!
Dear Wyatt Samuel,
You probably don’t know this but in two days your mom and dad will leave your 3 sisters behind in California and make a 12 hour flight to meet you in Russia. That’s them:
Pretty good looking family you have..
I have to be honest with you little guy, when your mom first started talking about you I thought she was C R A Z Y! I thought it was a phase she was going through. I mean, seriously, she is just coming out of the hard years with Hannah (your sister who also has spina bifida), she has 3 girls, and to be honest, things in their lives have been a bit rocky the past year or so. Why in heaven’s name would she really want to adopt another child with spina bifida? One child with significant special needs is already so hard.
I clicked over to your picture on Reese’s Rainbow and I saw what she saw. I imagined you not having access to the medical care that has made Carter’s (my son who was born with spina bifida) life as full and wonderful as it. My heart broke for you knowing that your future would likely be spent in an institution because you had a physical disability. But I still thought your mom was C R A Z Y and, honestly, I doubted she could ever pull it off.
Boy was I wrong! Your mom has a strength far beyond anything I could ever hope to possess. Because she loved you and had the courage to trust that feeling the moment she first saw you. Over the past year many, many people have worked tirelessly and contributed generously to your families new dream-you. I often wonder if you could feel that love coming to you from so far away.
In a few days you will get to meet these two fabulous parents of yours. They finally get to hug you and let you know how loved you are. The 30 day wait period after your first meeting I am sure will be the longest they have felt in quite some time.
I am sure things will be hard for you when you finally get to come home with them and you all will have many many challenges. But I am sure now that there is nothing your family won’t do for you.
You are one very, very loved little boy that God certainly must have a special plan for.
Love,
Your Mom’s Crazy Friend
PS…for you grownups out there: You can read all about the DeHoog’s journey to bring Samuel (they will be naming him Wyatt Samuel most likely) home. Adopting a child from Russia is a very expensive proposition and they have fund-raised almost all of the fee’s to date through their church and Reese’s Rainbow. Laura is a stay at home mom and Geoff is a typical Dad working to provide for his family. It’s not like they had 30K laying around to fund this. If you don’t yet know about the amazing work that is being done by Reese’s Rainbow, please click over and check them out. Just be sure to have plenty of kleenex nearby. If you feel like you want to do something to help them finish their journey you can make a secure donation through Reese’s Rainbow for them here: Donation’s For DeHoog Adoption This has come together with lots of 5, 10′s and 20′s!
I know they would appreciate your comments below.
By now, most everyone knows about Pinterest. It’s basically a virtual bulletin board of things you love, hate, aspire to, inspire you….really whatever you want to ‘collect’. It’s the same thing we all did as teenage girls, collected magazine pictures of bands, outfits and boys. Someone just figured out how to make it online and let you share it with the world.
I’m not going to lie. I am kind of obsessed with it. I fall asleep most nights swooning over cupcakes I will never make, projects I will never do, and pictures I wish I had taken. It’s addicting. And I am in awe that there are women (and men) out there that really do this stuff.
I’m convinced pinterest is made up of two groups of people: my mother-in-law, the uber Martha Stewart Room Mom extraordinaire and then people like me. You know, the mom that is actually asked to just buy some cupcakes at Costco instead of bake them at home.
Pinterest has given me some awesome ideas that I am totally planning on doing. Like this surprise for my nasty mailman this winter…
Or the creepy cupcakes I could totally buy from Costco, mess up and stick doll parts in to make the boys laugh…
Source: lilluna.com via Barb on Pinterest
But, let’s face it…I am never going to make this. I’m honestly wondering why anyone would…
Source: blog.pinkcakebox.com via Barb on Pinterest
and I sure don’t have the patience for this…
Source: notmartha.org via Barb on Pinterest
So even if Pinterest makes me realize I will never be a supermom, I’m OK with that. I am totally going to steal the other groups ideas and at least pretend in my head that I may be someday…Join me if you haven’t already.
Dear Auto-dmer’s,
See her? A few moments ago she was flitting about petting butterflies in my garden. Now she is dead. I hope you’re happy.
You see, every time I get an auto dm on twitter asking me to like someone’s FB page, a fairy falls over dead. Your DM’s annoy me so much that a fairy has to leave her peaceful flower garden to sprinkle me with pixie dust so that I don’t reach through my laptop and punch you in the throat. In her gallant effort to rush here to save your throat, she invariably suffers heart failure and falls to the ground dead shortly after.
And for what? REALLY? Do people actually rush over to facebook and follow you? Do you get responses like:
Oh, thank goodness, I was looking all over facebook for a link to like you & could only find your twitter account!
or
If I follow you on facebook, can I please get more spam messages like this?
or
I know we just met but I can tell in your last 140 characters you feel the connection too. Let’s FB chat!
Cause I am kinda thinking you don’t. Or if you do, you may want to look into places that provide bulk restraining orders.
I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and hope that somewhere in some social media ‘class‘ some ‘guru‘ told you this was a great idea. Or perhaps you read an article on building social media presence that was written in 2008. It’s OK. We all make mistakes. I admit I had my fun with an auto-dm too. Then this decade started.
But now that you know you have made one? Stop doing it OK?
I promise that besides needlessly killing fairies you are most certainly harming any chance you have of building ‘trust capital’.
Sincerely Yours,
and if I dm’d you this link in response to yours, know that I am only trying to help you. I followed you because I thought you were interesting but then you blew it with a horrible first impression. Buy me a drink and we will be good.
Everyone is doing it. So I couldn’t help myself Mom. I had to make one of these cheesy posters.
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