Saturday, May 20, 2006
Adoption- speaking at our church Mother/daughter banquet
I was one of three speakers on Thursday the 18th at our church to talk about Jude's adoption. It was nice to speak on a subject that I hold near and dear to my heart.
One of the other speakers is the mother of 9 children and is expecting her 10th; she is an amazing woman. And the other speaker was a missionary to Mexico along with her husband and she is amazing woman as well.
I pray that what I spoke on will lead others to consider adoption.
I love adoption!!! I want to do it again! Lord willing - I will do it, possibly when Amber's older. What am I saying "I" for , Bill needs to be in agreement with it? So I will pray that the Lord opens his heart to the possibility of bringing another child into our family. He/she would most likely be older with a special need.
We'll see - stay tuned! You never know.
<><, Anita
Monday, May 01, 2006
Boston : April 28- 30, 2006 - going to see Bill's grandmother and family
Hi everyone,
Bill and I left the kids' with my mom to go fly up to Boston and visit Bill's family. We had a very nice time , were able to stay with Bill's aunt and uncle for a few days. I felt bad staying for such a short amount of time. We planned both the Seattle and Boston trip at the same time in February to get the best price on tickets. Bill's 95 year old grandmother hasn't been in the best of health and we were not sure if she would be up to alot of activity. Both Bill and my grandmother have their medical issues and we are trying to make it up to see both of them this year.
Bill hasn't been to Boston for 5 years and I haven't been up to Seattle for 8 years. These past 4 years have been real busy for us due to Rachel's birth and then soon after planning for Jude's adoption and last year dealing with Jude's medical issues.
We hope next year to make it back up to Boston and take all the kids; that will be fun.
Boston was such a beautiful city on Saturday with all the flowers in bloom and the bright, blue, sunny sky ; it was about 55 degrees. The weather was a nice change from Tampa's warm weather.
We were able to visit Bill's grandmother on both Friday and Saturday and spent about a total of 10 hours with her and Bill's aunt.
You can visit our smugmug.com site to see the photos from the trip at the link below:
http://www.kelli-smith-gallery.smugmug.com/gallery/1414755
Love, Anita <><
