Just wanted to put up a quick post to let everyone know that we're all ok and that I'm formally suspending the blog for now.
A quick update on my chicks:
Libby Doodle Doo is a firecracker -- all full of dazzling energy and joy. She's expanding her vocabulary daily (sometimes with words that only I understand) and has moved confidently into toddlerhood. Zo Peep is doing a great job being a big sister -- protective & instructive. The two of them together are lovely to watch (well, most of the time -- like all siblings they both have their moments).
I'm still unemployed -- and that's the big elephant sitting in the corner of the room. We're still ok financially -- at least for the next few months. The job search has taken a lot out of me emotionally. I have good days and bad days. I'm trying to channel all of my energy into the girls and into the job search (struggling with that second area). Right now, I don't have any spare energy left over to maintain the blog. I hope to resume writing in the future when I'm on more stable ground.
I wish all of you a lovely holiday and the happiest of new years.
I'll leave you with some more photos of the girls taken in October by an amazing child photographer. The photographer books sessions way in advance and I had pre-paid for a Fall photo session for the girls shortly before being notified that I was losing my job (lucky break). I'm glad I followed through with the session. I now have beautiful photos to mark the girls' first year as sisters.
Peace to all. Theresa
16 comments:
So glad that you posted an update, and that you are all doing well.
It sounds like, despite the hardships and challenges of these months, you've done great at focusing on your lovely daughters and keeping a good perspective.
Blessings to you and your family in the New Year!
from Marcia in Wisconsin--our connection is that we are both in the Single-With-Two group; I'm happy Mommy to Sara Marina (age 5) and Kate (age 3),both adopted as infants from Taraz, Kazakhstan
I think of you everytime I see your blog on my bloglines. SOOOOOO happy you posted with an update and pictures. I know that you are going thru a tough time... Thoughts and prayers for you and your sweet peeps. Let me know when you are back in the blogsphere!!!
I will miss you.
Lisa
I am so glad I checked back ... and that you had left an update.
I don't know you at all ... just found your blog under "favorite sites" of some other folks' blogs. My daughter is single ... and hoping to get an adoption referral in the next few months now ....
I so enjoyed your blog after I stumbled upon it .... Your girls are beautiful. I've been concerned about your not posting. So, whether we know each other or not, I've been praying for you ... for grace to get through these difficult days ... and for your lovely daughters - that they are well and happy...and JUST LOOK AT THEM! Beautiful pictures you will treasure for a lifetime. Thank you for sharing.
I hope I find your blog again when you return ... and I wish you a blessed holiday season. May 2009see the "turn-around" in your employment status. I hope you don't think it presumptuous or invasive, but you will remain in my prayers.
Connie McDonald
Neptune Beach, Florida
conniebmcdonald@hotmail.com
So glad to see you are well and Happy Holidays to you all...
I hope the New Year finds you with peace and happiness and a wonderful job opportunity!!!
Enjoy your time with your beautiful girls!
So glad you posted an update! I have missed your updates & wonderful writing. The girls are beautiful. Keeping you in my prayers - Many Blessings to you and your chicks in 2009!!
Hi Theresa,
Its good to know you are ok, you're girls are looking lovely. I hope things improve for you next year. Good luck, and i hope you're enjoying your christmas! xxxx
Hello Theresa
You don't know me , I found your blog last summer surfing on internet about single moms .
I just want to say you " courage " in those difficult days and I wish you and your girls the best for the new year . I agree with Connie , when it will be very hard just look at your lovely daughters .
I hope you will post good news in the future .
Enjoy your times with your beautiful " chicks"
Blessings for you and your family
Christine from France , single mom to two wonderful daughters from Vietnam
I am so glad that you posted...had thought of you often. Have read you since before referral for Libby DD, and recognized that we are from the same city! Would love if you could share the name of the photog with me, as my girl is due for new prints (is turning four in just weeks! How did that happen?).
Take care.
Amanda
Happy to see an update on you beautiful family. Sorry that you are still job hunting. This is a hard time for a lot of people. Sending prayers that 2009 will be a better year for you. Your beautiful girls look very healthy and happy and that is a blessing... Good Luck in 2009. Will be checking back for future updates with good news in them... Linda
Thanks for posting an update on your chicks....they are lovely. But I'm so sorry about your "elephant". I have one of those in my corner too!! I have never had any trouble finding a job and the discouragement is very hard to take. Praying that we'll BOTH dispatch our elephants very early in 2009!! Hope you're back soon.
Deb M. in Montana
Thank you for sharing your life with us. I have enjoyed watching your family grow this past year and you write one of the better adoption mom blogs. Hope that you find work soon.
Happy to see the update, I think of you and the girls so often and have missed your blog very much. You are wonderful and talented, things will surely get better in 2009. Hang in. The girls are gorgeous.
Thanks to all of you who have left these meaningful and sincere well wishes for me and the girls. I suspect that I'll revisit this page if I'm having a bad day and these inspirational thoughts will -no doubt- rejuvenate my psyche .
One unforeseen and wonderful aspect of starting this blog is that I now feel connected with this wonderful network of extended family throughout the world who are all cheering on my little family.
Thank you all again for your kind words. Here's to a successful and Happy New Year to ALL of our families.
Theresa
P.S. I spent some time yesterday scanning in all of the photos of the girls from the October photo shoot. I'll add some of my favorites today since they will be so out of date by the time I get back to regularly posting to the blog. Enjoy.
Thanks so much for letting us know you are okay and showing your beautiful daughter's faces. I know this must be very hard and a lot of pressure, but feel sure that you will come out on top and that a window will open for you.
I am another reader who you don't know but whao has enjoyed your Blog so much and have been concerned about you. I am the single mum to a beautiful Chinese girl and would have loved to have gone for a little sister - so I envy you your 2 girls. In Australia where I live the crash has not impacted so much- we are not in recession -yet- but it must be so worrying for you all. My thoughts are with you and DO post from time to time- will keep "checking in" occasionally.
So glad to read you are doing well. I check in every so often to see if there is any word. Good luck on the continued job search I will add it to my prayer list. The girls are beautiful as ever. Blessings for the New Year.
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