Kids with Cameras

I just watch a documentary called Born into Brothels. It was very sad but somewhat inspiring. A photographer named Zana Briski went into the Red light districts of Calcutta Indian. Originally she was studying the women but eventually fell in love with their kids. She stated a photography class where she gave each kid a camera where they could photograph their lives. She also worked to get some of these kids into schools which was very difficult because their parents were criminals. She wanted to do what she could to keep them from following the footsteps of their parents. Most of the girls born in the brothels usually become prostitutes. The kids did a really GREAT job with their photographs. http://www.kids-with-cameras.org/kidsgallery/ She and others have now started this same type of project in other areas around the world. I was relieved to see that several years later some of the kids are still in the boarding schools looking forward to a brighter future. I was also sadden that some dropped out or were taken out by their parents only to go back to a future with out hope. I would recommend watching this movie but make sure you have some klenex.

Time Flies and Dreams Come Alive

You close your eyes and go to sleep
you already dream of a day when we will meet
but who knows how time will fly
when one day...

With eyes so dark you lift your face
to see a smile upon my face

With joy so deep
You wonder how time can fly
That you opened your eyes
to see your dream come alive

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RITA PITA!!!!!

May it be the best yet!!!

Fingerprints

Well yesterday, we went and got our fingerprints at the jail. It is a pretty neat system. They do not use ink but a computer. I will now mail them to the GBI to have them read and make sure we are not criminals. We drove to appling to get them done and to have a local background check also. The local office where we have to get a letter from the police department saying that we have no local crimes. The office was closed so we get to go back to Appling to do this and both of us has to be present. You can only request your own so I can't going looking into other people's business not even my husband. I guess that is good to know that I am at least secure there. After all this is said and done we will eventually have to go to Atlanta to get fingerprinted by the FBI, but all this work is worth it because it means that one day I will be a mother.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all my favorite bloggers. I hope that your holidays were great!

Dear Birth Mother

I wrote this poem when we knew that we were going to adopt but didn't know where. It is written for the birth mother.

Greatest Gift Of Love



What Joy-What Sorrow happened on that day
When the Gift of Love is bestowed

The Joy you give as you hand over your child
The Greatest Gift of Love you gave us that day

The sorrow that comes with such a sacrifice is hard to ease
on that day you gave your child to me

The day you decided to give this precious child
more than what you could provide

The gift you have given me is
The Greatest Gift of Love

My prayer for you is that your sorrow will one day return to Joy
because of the Greatest Gift of Love that you gave to me

You will always be a part of that Joy
when I reflect upon that precious day

I will remember the sacrifice it took
and will lift you up to the one who
Gave us all the
Greatest Gift of Love

Sonogram

The child we will adopt is already in the womb and will probally be born sometime soon with in the next couple of months, that's CRAZY! It's our first sonogram! :) I found this on several other blogs from people adopting from China. I do pray for my child often just as any mother who is expecting except would. I also pray for her biological mother and family.

Sardines

OK. The aquarium was nice but very much over crowded. We waited in line with prepaid tickets for an hour while those who did not have prepaid tickets waited about 25 minutes. I felt like I was in a can of Sardines. Every line was a mass of people. It is not something I would advise doing until some of the newness wears off. Mike was a little stressed with the crowd but I had him beat. I had somewhat of an anxiety attack so he went and bought me a little bottle of wine which helped calmed my nerves. I took a few pictures but we were not allowed to use flash in most place so they are not that good. I only had my small camera so I could not adjust the settings. That anxiety attack was not so bad as the one at the mall. I had to leave the building. There were people everywhere and I am usually great with navigation issues but felt like I was going in circles and there was no way out so the first exit I saw I left. Our trip was very nice. We left Augusta around 5 on Friday went out to eat at "Up A Creek", it was pretty good. On Saturday, we walked Lennox Mall, went to Phillips Plaza which is about the size of Augusta Mall. All the shops in the two places were very high dollar stores, all of your name brand places. But at Phillips plaza is were we saw KING KONG, what an awesome movie. We then later ate dinner at a very nice restaurant. The people next to us were a lot of fun they were somewhat of an older couple and the lady's sister. They were enjoying life, and we were enjoying it with them. The next day is when we took Marta to the aquarium, we waited an hour to go about 15 miles down the street. We missed the first train, and waited about 30 minutes on the next one only to go to the very next station to get off because that train was going to be serviced where we again waited for another 30 minutes on the train that was "right behind it" We walked centennial Park and went to the CNN building. The ride home was much better. We rode marta to Lennox mall and then walked back to Phillips Plaza to see the movie "memoirs of a geisha" That was also a very good movie. It when along with our lunch of sushi and Chinese food. Today we stopped at the Carter Center, and took a look at history. It was pretty cool.



OK I am going to post my first poem, it is not about adoption but its is one I wrote just before our decision to adopt and is dedicated to all the girls that I have worked with and they know who they are. It is called "Mother of None, Many Daughters"

I am a mother of none
but yet I have many daughters.

We talk-We laugh-We cry and play
and they tell me about their day.

but when the day is done
they go home to their mothers
and I to a childless home.

I love these daughters of mine
there door is always opened to my heart

I'm happy to be there
to share their lives and
would not have it any other way

Even tough one day they move on about their lives
they will never completely go away
They are a treasure in my heart

One day I'll be a mother to a child of my own and
forever will be grateful for
there lessons they have taught me

For God has put them there and used them to make me
into the best mother that I can be.

For these daughters
have brought Joy in my childless days.

Update

I know that my friends must think that I never blog or when is she going to blog. I have thought about it but never seen to take the time to sit. As most of you know that Mike and I have been considering adoption. Well we have started the process. We have turned in our application and begun our "Home Study". That's just the beginning. For our home study we have to write an autobiography. This is probably the hardest part for me because I am not a big fan of writing. We will also have to have a physical, be fingerprinted locally and by the FBI. After the entire process is over there will be NO SECRETs about us. I am very excited despite all of the paper work.

Rita wants me to blog some of my poems I've been writing. As I said before I am not a great writer. Maybe one day I'll share them with you.

Christmas is almost hear a time of Holiday Cheer. I look forward to spending time with my family. Just think hopefully this time next year I will have a new addition to the family. I am going to attach some pictures of my family including one of a baby boy that we considered adopting. He is my brother-in-laws step daughter's son. She decided that it would be too difficult to let us adopt him because we were family and she would see and here him call us "mommy" and "daddy". He is cute. Hopefully we will still be able to impact his life in some way.

Tomorrow is our (Mine and Mike's) 16th anniversary. That puts us together for 19 years because we dated for 3 years. We will be heading to Atlanta for some time together. We will go out to eat somewhere nice and then we are going to the new Georgia Aquarium. I'm excited about that. I'll post pictures of that on a later date.

TTFN(ta ta for now as Tigger would say)