My life has just been packed to the max with trying to put together this ginormous event, plus my regular work, taking care of the family and trying really hard to tell my friends that I still love them. But right now my life is consumed with this planning. By the end of the day I have no desire to bang out a blog post (photo editing, writing, tag it, etc). I don’t even have the desire to. So, I’m wondering if I should take a …

Two years ago today we received our referral for Catherine.  What an amazing ride this has been.  It’s so hard to believe that it was years ago and not months ago.  It seems like yesterday we got these two cute little photos of her.  The first thing that I noticed was her hair.  She has soooooo much of it!  And I love it because I have so much hair too.  We were just so excited to finally see her photos and read her reports.  From the moment we received her …

Chinese New Year is only two weeks away and somehow, someway we have a CNY event to go to nearly every weekend until the end of February.  Our Families with Children From China group has an amazing group of families on the north side of Houston.  The group is so big that they have broken into smaller groups for smaller events.  Because we are friends with several families on that side of town, we have participated with them more this year.  Today the festivities were kicked off with a late …

Right now my life is revolving around our Texas Fallen Heroes Memorial Ride & Cook-Off.  I eat, sleep, and breath this fundraiser pretty much non-stop.  It’s getting pretty old around this house and with my friends and family.  I’m pretty sure John is ready to shove me into the hall closet and I get the evil eye from Catherine.  While I am loving the experience of planning the event, I am about ready to get this behind me.  I’m way too stressed about how it’s going to turn out and …

Tonight I spent some time with a family that I met a short seven years ago.  I sat at the same dining room table in their home in which we planned their son’s funeral.  Seven years ago, I watched a mother stare blankly at a baked potato that her family was trying to get her to eat, barely able to concentrate on the arrangements we were discussing.  Seven years ago, his sister was so angered by the tragic circumstances of his death that those emotions were carried out onto me.  …