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With Love & Purpose....From the Beginning

Ten years ago….

Ten years ago on the last Thursday in September, my future husband asked me for my phone number. I was out with a girlfriend, Melissa, who knew him from grade school. I spotted that curly hair, big smile and dimples a mile away and we hit it off that night, although he was shy about […]

Old and New

Over the weekend we had my cousin Nikki’s two boys overnight on Saturday for a sleep-over party. We picked up the boys at their home Saturday afternoon in our SUV that we got four years ago. When we purchased the car we had hopes of filling up the extra space with a child of our […]

Relationships: Past & Present

Andrew and I sat on the couch tonight and listen to Jack Johnson’s The Mango Tree album. It’s got a couple cover songs and for the most part the rest is Jack’s original music. When I first met Andrew ten years ago, I remember the first time he played Jack’s CD in his beat up […]

Waiting to Adopt or Just Paint!

Andrew and I moved into our home six years ago right before we were married. During the past six years I have changed the color on the walls in our home many times. I think painting is somewhat symbolic to the change in our lives. Change is inevitable, and so why not paint. It seems […]