Oh my goodness! Wednesday night was the best adoption group (in Colorado) ever! The house was SO FULL of people and kids--people I've known for a while and people who I just met Wednesday night. The house was so full and my heart was so full! I think we had about 14 families and each family had 2-5 children. There was talking and laughing and no fighting between the kids. It was unbelievable! Red and yellow, black and white. . .almost literally! We had kids from the US, from Rwanda, from DRC, from Uganda, from Ethiopia, from China, from Korea, from Taiwan, from Guatemala. . .unbelievable! I'm so thankful for the adoption community here in Durango! Below are some pictures. . .they don't even do the happy chaos justice, though!!!
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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