Hi friends!! I am participating in Angie's challenge,"If you could pick one picture that symbolizes who you are what would it be?" Her story and picture were beautiful and breath taking. Please visit her blog http://www.angelicagracedesigns.com/ to read and view her beautiful family and her awesome creations.
So as most of you can tell by just looking at my blog I love my brother and sister very much. Most people think they are my own kids, heck I even think that, HEHE. It all started when my mom became a foster parent and we housed over 100 children. I fell in love with all of them and cried every time they got placed back with their unworthy parents. My mom had just bought her beauty shop and was tired of chasing teenage mom's down, so she decided to stop fostering. We hadn't been out of the loop for too long when one rainy night (Ronald loves this story) we got a phone call stating that a baby boy had been left alone for 2 days and needed a place to stay until they found a permenant home. So a small little man delivered Ronald to the beauty shop and we fell totally absolutley in love. Ronald became the beauty shop baby and took a many of a bath in the shampoo bowls. We had him a year when his mother's rights were going to be terminated and we were going to adopt him, when she told us that she had a surprise for us. So we met her at social services and she was full blown 9 months pregnant. Elizabeth was born 2 weeks later and was teenie that we nick named her little bit. She actually wore preemie clothes and drank from a preemie bottle. We officially adopted them in October of 1997 and had a party to celebrate.
These two children have been my life for 13 years. I often joke and say that I was a "teenage mom" because I did help my mom raise them. When I read Angie's post and was trying to think of something that symbolized "who" I was, I could only think of Ronald and Elizabeth. Everything I do I do for them, they have made Me who I am today. When I got married almost 4 years ago I literally cried for weeks because I missed them so much, even though I lived 5 minutes down the street. Ronald has taught me to be more loving and open. He has the biggest heart of any child I know. Elizabeth showed me that it is OK to be different and that you can still be a child at any age. Most people think I'm probably "weird" for the love that I have for these children but I don't care. I can honestly say that I have a genuine mother's love for them, even though I didn't physically birth them. I can't imagine a day without them because a day without them means a day without Me.
So there you have it, Ronald and Elizabeth are "who" I am and I wouldn't change it for anything.
Until I blog again ~ Gal Molly
So as most of you can tell by just looking at my blog I love my brother and sister very much. Most people think they are my own kids, heck I even think that, HEHE. It all started when my mom became a foster parent and we housed over 100 children. I fell in love with all of them and cried every time they got placed back with their unworthy parents. My mom had just bought her beauty shop and was tired of chasing teenage mom's down, so she decided to stop fostering. We hadn't been out of the loop for too long when one rainy night (Ronald loves this story) we got a phone call stating that a baby boy had been left alone for 2 days and needed a place to stay until they found a permenant home. So a small little man delivered Ronald to the beauty shop and we fell totally absolutley in love. Ronald became the beauty shop baby and took a many of a bath in the shampoo bowls. We had him a year when his mother's rights were going to be terminated and we were going to adopt him, when she told us that she had a surprise for us. So we met her at social services and she was full blown 9 months pregnant. Elizabeth was born 2 weeks later and was teenie that we nick named her little bit. She actually wore preemie clothes and drank from a preemie bottle. We officially adopted them in October of 1997 and had a party to celebrate.
These two children have been my life for 13 years. I often joke and say that I was a "teenage mom" because I did help my mom raise them. When I read Angie's post and was trying to think of something that symbolized "who" I was, I could only think of Ronald and Elizabeth. Everything I do I do for them, they have made Me who I am today. When I got married almost 4 years ago I literally cried for weeks because I missed them so much, even though I lived 5 minutes down the street. Ronald has taught me to be more loving and open. He has the biggest heart of any child I know. Elizabeth showed me that it is OK to be different and that you can still be a child at any age. Most people think I'm probably "weird" for the love that I have for these children but I don't care. I can honestly say that I have a genuine mother's love for them, even though I didn't physically birth them. I can't imagine a day without them because a day without them means a day without Me.
So there you have it, Ronald and Elizabeth are "who" I am and I wouldn't change it for anything.
Until I blog again ~ Gal Molly
