Happy Adoption Month!

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Happy National Adoption Month! How great to have a whole month to celebrate adoption and how fitting that it's in November, the month we give thanks for our blessings! We are so grateful for adoption and for our little miracle! We're so grateful for Bethany's birth families and for their courage and strength in placing her with us! We can't imagine our lives without Bethany. (And if I can say that right after a night of Bethany throwing a screaming tantrum for two hours in the middle of the night, I must really mean it, huh!) We're so grateful to be Bethany's parents, and our hearts are completely wrapped around her, we love her so much.



To celebrate adoption, we had a fun weekend with our Logan Families Supporting Adoption (FSA) chapter. On Saturday, we went bowling for a couple of hours. Bethany had a blast ("Ball! Ball!") and loved rolling the ball down the little ramp thing. The sad thing is, she's a better bowler than I am. I'm simply terrible. I think the highest I've ever scored in bowling is about 80. Keeps me humble. At any rate, Bethany had several strikes and just loved watching that ball roll! It was fun to be with our friends and their adorable kids. Bethany's cousin Ruby came to bowl with her, too, and she had a great time with Uncle James and Aunt Tracee. (I must have donated my share of bowling genes to my brother James, he's much better than I am.)





On Sunday, we had a special fireside to commemorate adoption. It was really nice. The speakers did a great job (there was a birth mother, an adoptive father and our agency director, Rick Hill) and all the kids sang "Families Can Be Together Forever." Then James and I sang a song called "The House of the Lord" during a nice slide show of sealing pictures. I had decided to take Bethany with us up there to sing, because she usually goes hysterical if I leave her with someone in the audience (ward choir is really getting to be a problem for me) and Bethany ended up completely upstaging us! She wriggled her way out of our arms, climbed the step stool and beamed at the audience, ran across the platform and down the stairs to the main part of the chapel, and ran right up and down the aisles, all while we were singing. Then the very last slide was a picture of our family on our sealing day and right as we were singing the last note Bethany pointed up at the screen and yelled, "Mommy! Daddy!" It was actually a really cute end to our song. The little monkey stole the show, but that's what we were celebrating so it was somehow fitting!
Happy National Adoption Month, everyone!