A great day

Well, a week has passed since the adoption. I'm trying to complete baby's life book. We have pictures of so many places that baby has been in her short life. We are putting them in a book that she can read any time along with captions that explain her story, the love her birth mother has for her, and the love that we have also.
It tells about her hospital friends and milk donors as well as the whole adoption process.
It's my hope that she will be able to understand the process a little bit better if she can see her whole story.

It's official!

Well, what a week! The adoption, baby blessing, and sealing are finished. What a wonderful, crazy, beautiful week. I feel so blessed to know that our family can be together forever, that our Father in Heaven has blessed our lives with another child, even though my body didn't work well enough anymore, and that we have such great family and friends to support us. We'll take a little time off to be together and remember the birth of our Savior. I'm looking forward to Christmas this year as a real family. Last Christmas we had just gotten Ana and we had a feeling that she would be with us forever but we weren't able to acknowledge it.
I used to wonder how a mom and dad could love an adopted child as much as their own. After Ana had been with us for a month there was no difference whatsoever. She is absolutely one of our own. And yes, we love her as such.

I would gather Children

I took this from the blog of Amy...it's absolutely true. I'm so thankful for the natural love of children. I am asked all the time how I can do foster care, how can I take care of "other people's children", won't they affect my "own". This poem answers all that.

I WOULD GATHER CHILDREN

Some would gather money
Along the path of life;
Some would gather roses,
And rest from worldly strife.

But I would gather children
From among the thorns of sin;
I would seek a golden curl,
And a freckled, toothless grin.

For money cannot enter
In that land of endless day;
And roses that are gathered
Soon will wilt along the way.

But, oh, the laughing children,
As I cross the sunset sea,
And the gates swing wide to heaven -
I can take them in with me.

-Author Unknown

we're pregnant again!

Well, our birth mom (of Hailey) just let us know that she is pg again and would like us to adopt the new baby (in about 6 months) HOLY COW!
Right now I am so excited. I can't believe it. I'm going to go through all the pg feelings but with no control over what happens.
I'll worry later but for now I just keep thinking about all these spirits who want to come to earth so badly that they'll come to a situation like that.
WOW!
I feel so blessed that she remembered us and knew that we loved Hailey and we'll take good care of her.
Now for the wondering...can I handle this?
Here goes more of the foster coaster...wheee