One Year Later

One year ago today, we met our second son. The journey from then to now has been filled with many tears, smiles, diapers, laughs and memories. And just as He knew then, God still knows the plans He has for our sweet boy. In fact, true to His goodness we received some exciting news from the social worker just this morning. I hope to share it with everyone soon. God is so good, truly He is!

You go before me and follow me.
You place your hand of blessing on my head.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too great for me to understand!
Psalm 139:5-6


I wait for the LORD, my soul waits,
and in his word I put my hope.
Psalm 130:5

Sort of Party Pics & Some Everyday Solutions

I still have not managed to get the pictures from my Mom's camera from the twins' birthday. However, my friend Beth took some fabuloso pictures from Aaron's birthday party. Click here to jump over to her blog and check them out. I would have stolen them straight from her blog, but she uses some high-tech anti-photo stealing program called Flicker. Anyway, I know you will love these pictures, and I'm only slightly jealous of her super nice camera. Okay, more than slightly.

Anyway, their "Little Man" is just 3 days older than Aaron, so we had a joint birthday party for our boys. We met the Hauts in our foster parent classes. It was clearly a God thing that both of our families chose to attend that fostering series and our friendship has been the greatest blessing throughout this journey. You can go to her blog by clicking here (But you only have my permission to go there if you promise to check our Aaron's birthday pictures as well. Got that? Okay. Good.)

Moving right along....

I subscribe via email to P&G Everyday Solutions. It's a nifty publication delivered straight to my inbox with coupons and money saving tips in the mix. A mother's dream, right? Well....sometimes.

This past week I received this offer:

While I'm sure the marketing team at P&G is top notch, I'm gonna have to bust them on this one. Click on that pic and make it nice and large, then read the description of Always Infinity Maxi Pads.

Thaaaaaaaats right. This little beauty can absorb up to "TEN TIMES ITS WEIGHT." To top it all off, they even claim that "You might forget you're wearing a pad." Ew. I sure hope that isn't something I'd forget.

I think they missed the mark on this marketing strategy. I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'.