Here are two angels with Down Syndrome that are weighing very heavy on my heart right now. I am posting this so i can have all my online friends, local friends and family to please please pray for these two angels. The are both very healthy and just happen to have that something thats "a little extra special." 
I seen this posted on our Reeces Rainbow site today by Shelley. An amazing mommy she is. Her and her hubby brought home their precious Xander in the fall from Ukraine and he is also an angel with Down Syndrome......thanks Shelley for this great list....It is all so true!!!
You know you are an adoptive mother (or you should be!) if:
1. The fact that there are 143 million children without a parent to kiss them goodnight has ever made you lose sleep.
2. You realize DNA has nothing to do with love and family.
3. You can't watch Adoption Stories on TLC without sobbing.
4. The fact that if 7% of Christians adopted 1 child, there would be no orphans in the world is convicting to you.
5. You spend free time surfing blogs about families who have experienced the blessing of adoption.
6. It drives you crazy when people ask you about your adopted child's "real" parents.
7. You have ever been "pregnant" with your adoptive child longer than it takes an elephant to give birth (2 years!)
8. You had no idea how you would afford to adopt but stepped out in faith anyway knowing where God calls you He will provide.
9. You have ever taken a airplane ride half way around the world with a child you just met.
10. You believe God's heart is for adoption.
11. You realize that welcoming a child into your heart and family is one of the most important legacy's you could ever leave on this earth.
12. You know what the word Dossier means and you can actually pronounce it!
13. You have welcomed a social worker into the most private parts of your life.
14. You shudder when people say your child is so lucky that you adopted them, knowing full well you are the blessed one to have them in your life.
Well today was a good but COLD day. The girls got up and were READY for preschool. I had no idea the rain was coming in and it would be oh so cold by mid morning. Michael left this morning after a nice but too short visit. I am so glad he gets to come home to visit.
Well with this weather change, all the girls have running noses and a small cough. I hope it doesnt worsen.
Please pray for me....Sunday night my blood pressure i guess got WAY too high and i had a bad episode. Not a black out but signs of a heart attack. William asked me if i wanted to go to the ER but i said no, because i thought after awhile i would feel better. It took me a good long time to get back to almost normal, but Monday Am i woke up still really light headed and not myself....so off to the DR i went. Im so glad Michael was here to drive me around. They changed my med's and have to go back and do some blood work....please pray that I will remember each day to take my medicine and take care of myself. I started crying in the Dr's because it hit me.......how in the world will William make it without me? What will all my kids do with no mom? So as much time and energy i put into my kiddos and family.....I must help myself as well....but im terrible at that. so I ask all my prayer warriors out there...please remember me in your prayers.
Well my time to get a new cell phone has come....bye bye nextel and hello to At&t. So if you have a At&t cell or home phone its free for me to call you. william and Michael are now the proud owners of Iphones....... All our phone numbers are the same....but William did get another number as well.
Have a blessed day.
Here goes our run down on our crazy last few weeks:
Our Chirstmas was a good one, quiet and some what uneventfull. All 5 of my girls were here just missing our son. He did come home the weekend after Christmas for 3 days so that was great. We go the call right before Christmas that Gabby's finger had STAFF infection and so they put her on a really heavy dose of meds.....then 3 of the younger ones, including Gabby all were sick with upper resp crud and the lovely base cliic was closed. So we finally took them to a walk in clinic. Come to find out that either Gabby was allergic to her meds from the staff infection or she is allergic to Zythrimax. She broke out over the course of 3 days in this TERRIBLE raised rASH that took over most of her body. Yesterday after spening another 5.5 hrs in the walk in clinic again she got a shot of steroids and benedryl. Today she is much better, but still lots of rash left. I think it will take her a few days to get rid of it.
I pray that you all had a great holiday with your families. Now on to a new year.....I wonder what it will bring for us??
