Truth.
God has woven my path
through some pretty incredible places.
No, I have not traveled the world or even seen much of the beauty in our
own back yard, but I have journeyed to places I could never have imagined!
After parenting 11 incredible human beings who taught me
more than I could have learned in as many lifetimes, I was sure that there was
nothing that could challenge or excite me more.
David and I knew we hadn’t seen it all, but parenting had come at us
full force with things like severe health
issues, drug addiction and mental
illness on top of the usual bag of tricks parents who deal with trauma
affected kids see.
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| Missing one :) |
When all was said and done, I wasn’t sure if I even knew how
to live life at a normal pace. Let alone
have friends, talk about things like pedicures, Nordstrom sales and exotic
vacation places.-what were those? (My
idea of a vacation was the 10 minutes of quiet I stole in our 15 passenger van
while waiting for the kids to finish baseball practice. And ‘NO’, I did not participate with the other
families in their tailgate parties…cuz, how on earth do you fit food for 13 on
a tailgate??!)
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| Missing many, but included the one :) |
In the Spring of 2013, as our 15 year old was just
recuperating from a bone marrow transplant and I was beginning to adjust my
eyes to the light at the end of the tunnel, when I was presented with an offer
I could not refuse.
Ibsen Adoption Network had received a small grant to fund
some post adoption support programs and they were looking for someone to head
them up, would I like to have the job?
Part-time, not great pay, but something to really sink my teeth into as
my kids slowly seeped out of the nest?...Absolutely!!!
