Sep 29
Sep 29
Memo sings ‘Let My People Go’
Ramblings Comments Off
Sep 28
Guatemalan President Oscar Berger has announced plans to suspend all intercountry adoption with American families on January 1, 2008.
The Joint Council on International Children’s Services and the National Council for Adoption have issued a press release responding to the announced changes in Guatemalan adoptions by the U.S. Department of State.
*The announcement indicated that there will be no grandfathering of cases with children who have already been referred to adoptive parents.
*Over 5,000 children have been referred.
*The birthparents for these children have already relinquished their parental rights. As a result, they currently have no family and the Berger suspension will result in these children having no prospect for a permanent, safe and loving family.
*If children referred to families are not allowed to be adopted, they will languish in institutions or foster care.
*The government of Guatemala currently does not have the finances or facilities to even provide housing for these 5,000 children.
Sep 24
Big deal you might say. Yet, it is a big deal because you see, she drove herself there. All by herself. She drove all by herself. I need to keep typing it so it sinks in. She took and passed her driving test today. It was SO cool and I was so proud of her.
The first thing she did was take her two older brothers for ice cream.
When I pictured having a girl, she was always a cool, strong, feisty girl. Needless to say, Katie is better than anything I could’ve imagined when I thought about having a daughter. It is scary to know she is on her own driving now, very scary. But, she’s ready and did I mention I’m really proud of her?
Sep 21
Mom: Uh, Patrick, you were supposed to help me get everyone’s drinks.
Patrick: I got mine.
Sep 14
Brendan says that High School Musical is stupid because it’s just a rip off of Grease.
Except:
It’s not in the 50′s
There is no race in it
No one is smoking
Sep 11
We will always treasure every birthday we spend with you and never forget the difficult years when you were not here with us on your birthday. Here’s to a huge milestone: Manuel has now been with us almost as many years as he lived apart from us. YAY!!!
Sep 05
Priest: For example, cute kids are cute until they realize they are cute, then they are just brats.
Congregation: Loud laughter
Horn Child Who Will Not Be Named: What???