Today is two years since we have been "logged in" with the China Center for Adoptive Affairs (buiding shown above). I have now officially be pregnant longer than an elephant! Currently the wait is 37 months (and growing--when we began the process, it was seven months). Who knows where God will take us before we get our China-baby and what our family will look like before she becomes Mei Mei (little sister). What a journey it has been already and what a journey it promises to be!!!
Andy proposed during a curtain call of Me and My Girl , a musical in which he played an old man who went most of his life without telling the woman he loved that he loved her... Twenty-three years ago today Andy asked me to marry him. . . . he was my best friend and I thought he was the love of my life. Should I have said no? I don't know how many times I have now been asked a version of that question in the past couple of years and I cannot count the number of times I have asked myself that question over the past decade, but it is a dumb question with no great answer. If I would have said no 23 years ago, I would have saved myself from so many tears and so much pain, but I would have missed so much laughter and so many exciting firsts and I would be such a different person. . . . Because of this day, 23 years ago, I am who I am and I have so much to be thankful for. Because of this day, 23 years ago, I have five of the best kids on the planet. They are t
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