Melissa | July 29, 2010
Someone made a provocative comment to Patrick today that gave me pause. I don’t think well on my feet so I mulled it over on my drive back from DC in rush hour traffic this evening.
Comment: Why would I want to spend $2000 to host one orphan, when I could sponsor a dozen through World [...]
Melissa | May 18, 2010
********UPDATE********
After much discussion on various boards about this post, I chose to change the title (as it was very distracting) and add these words….
For those that claim some parents do not want to parent, I see that as a failure somewhere a long the line. It’s not acceptable to me that people think it’s ok [...]
Melissa | April 26, 2010
Not-Me-Monday is a blog carnival started by MckMama. Hop over to her blog to see what others have NOT done this week.
I did NOT travel to the other side of the globe to pick up our third child, take hundreds of pictures, and only get one of our whole family of 5.
It did NOT [...]
Melissa | April 18, 2010
A year ago, we were on a plane to pick up Ty! Not sure how we did it, but we (all 6 of us) left 48 hours after receiving our travel call. I made this book as a Christmas present for my mom and mother-in-law.
Click here to view this photo book.
Melissa | April 17, 2010
It stinks that one person can ruin it for everyone else. The recent return of a little boy to Russia and the subsequent suspension of Russian adoptions to U.S. homes is a perfect example. (I also hate how the general public’s opinion of adoption is based on media reports of failed adoptions but that’s another [...]
Melissa | April 11, 2010
Let’s get hypothetical for a moment, shall we?
Let’s imagine that abortions go away. Either Roe vs. Wade is overturned or God moves mightily to answer the prayers of millions in the pro-life movement.
Since roughly 1.2 million abortions are performed every year, that would mean 1.2 million more babies. Statistically, speaking about 2% of mothers will make [...]
Melissa | March 24, 2010
At prayer time tonight…
Ty: Jesus, dank you I had… What’s dat called ‘gain, Mom?
Me: What is what called again?
Ty: Pich
Me: Pitch?
Ty: No, piiiich (pinching fingers together)
Me: Pinch?
Ty: No. Missue.
Me: Miss Sue?
Ty: Yah. Dank you ‘at Miss Sue today.
Me: Ooooooh. Speech. Is that what you were saying?
Ty: Yah. Dank you I had pee-sch today.
Less than a [...]
Melissa | February 28, 2010
I wish I was better at putting down on paper screen how many ways God has shown His faithfulness in our journey to get Grafted Families up and running. But I’m not. So you’ll just have to deal with what I have. I just posted an entry here at our Grafted Families blog about our [...]
Melissa | January 23, 2010
Can you hop over to http://www.graftedfamilies.com/input-please.aspx , please?
Thanks!
Melissa | January 6, 2010
As Ty picks up more grammar, phraseology, and vocabulary, we are becoming a bilingual family. Our second language is Ty-ese. While receptive and comprehensive abilities have made huge improvements (our therapists and specialists say they’ve never seen such a large jump in such a short period of time…then again, maybe because they’ve never worked with an [...]
