Davis asked, "What do you have?"
I said "Nothing," through a mouth stuffed with his Valentine candy.
Oh, the shame. I am not even joking.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Newsworthy
There's a nice article on our Chinese adoption group in the news today, along with a super sweet photo of our Pearlie-girl! It is a great testimony about how far Pearl has come in sociability that she let a photographer - a stranger - get close enough to her to get this shot. It is true that she was sitting safely in my lap at the time, but it wasn't so long ago that she would have totally freaked out about this.
I'm grateful to this reporter for sharing such a positive, joyful message about the adoption community. I have such a great desire for others to see adoption as a normal, even celebrated way to be a family, and not an isolating experience for us as parents or for our children. And I'm so very grateful to the Drafts family for tirelessly organizing and hosting these group events!
I couldn't help being reminded today that this is not the first time Pearl has been in the news. One of the artifacts we have from Pearl's early history is her "finding ad" - an advertisement in the newspaper from Pearl's hometown province that included her very first known photo and some information about her. These types of ads are meant to call birth families forward. Pearl's face is oh-so-tiny in her finding ad - several of the infants and toddlers in the ads surrounding hers also have clefts. All of these children were faces without names--little and lost and waiting.
And then there is today - when we are so thrilled to see our baby girl's beautiful photo in our newspaper. We can't wait to frame it and hang it on the wall next to our previous news-maker's handsome baby face.
In this sometimes strange, looking-glass life, I really can't imagine the original reaction to that very first, beautiful picture in the news across the sea of place and time. I have so much compassion for those who may have seen it when it was printed and know the story behind it in a way that we never will.
I'm grateful to this reporter for sharing such a positive, joyful message about the adoption community. I have such a great desire for others to see adoption as a normal, even celebrated way to be a family, and not an isolating experience for us as parents or for our children. And I'm so very grateful to the Drafts family for tirelessly organizing and hosting these group events!
I couldn't help being reminded today that this is not the first time Pearl has been in the news. One of the artifacts we have from Pearl's early history is her "finding ad" - an advertisement in the newspaper from Pearl's hometown province that included her very first known photo and some information about her. These types of ads are meant to call birth families forward. Pearl's face is oh-so-tiny in her finding ad - several of the infants and toddlers in the ads surrounding hers also have clefts. All of these children were faces without names--little and lost and waiting.
And then there is today - when we are so thrilled to see our baby girl's beautiful photo in our newspaper. We can't wait to frame it and hang it on the wall next to our previous news-maker's handsome baby face.
In this sometimes strange, looking-glass life, I really can't imagine the original reaction to that very first, beautiful picture in the news across the sea of place and time. I have so much compassion for those who may have seen it when it was printed and know the story behind it in a way that we never will.
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