Before I Became a Mom...

I was never a very emotional person. I never had a problem working in the ER department when children would come in due to car wrecks, or drank a bottle of lantern oil, or having astma attacks. I loved working in the NICU where babies who were born to mothers with drug or alcohol addictions stayed for months at a time and may never get to see the light of day. I always felt a connection to those sweet children whether they lived or died, I helped take care of them.
But now that I have a child of my own, I worry every day of disease, destruction, and death. So, for me to listen to the news (which I do every day), pains me to hear that a dad could take the life of his 5 children just because he lost his job. It just doesn't make sense to me. I pray for that family and the loss of life. And, I pray that my son never has to worry about the things that I worry about being a mom. Well, atleast until he becomes a dad.

Adoption Update or lack thereof!

I received a phone call from our adoption agency this week and it was not good news. But, I didn't expect to receive good news. Apparently the Kaz Embassy is not letting Dossiers get passed through from our agency and maybe a few others. So, our Dossier was returned. I was given options to either change countries (again), drop out, or just wait to see if anything changes with the Embassy. Well, I just told them we would wait it out. I really don't want to change countries and I am ok with just waiting for now. And, I've said it before, Turner is a 3 year old and we are just enjoying him for the moment. So, we will wait and see. Maybe something else will come up this year?

Houston Half-Marathon-Completed in 2 Hours and 34 Minutes!

We are #1 (well, technically I think we were like 1000 something out of 25,000 racers?)

DeAnn and Me

Ok, I know this blog is our family journey to adoption and the life growing photos of my beautiful son, Turner but I am going to pat my self on the back for one paragraph! DeAnn and I have been training for a year to complete a half-marathon. We started with a great program called 'couch to 5k', raced in several 5ks, and worked our way up to our half-marathon. We have had so much fun running together or working out at the gym and it all paid off in the end. We plan on racing in the pancake 5k this March which was our very first 5k to compete in and we hope to beat our time by a long shot. And, we hope to complete more half-marathons in the future! So, I would like to say a big thanks to DeAnn for being a great running partner and heres to more races: sore knees. pulled muscles, and most of all, bye to all of the weight we've lost!!!