Our agency - A Helping Hand - typically gets a new list of special needs kids to post on their Waiting Children list every 3-4 months. As the time for the new list draws closer, I tended to check their website more and more often in hopes that a child would catch my eye. I'm not sure when the next list was posted - late October or early November. Unfortunately, none of the kids on the new, very small list felt right. We were open to a whole variety of special needs (SN), and boy, do you see a variety! A SN can be a little birthmark, cleft palates, deafness, heart defects, missing limbs, Hepatits B, or just being over age 3. Todd and I had talked about what kinds of things we were comfortable in dealing with, what age range we were interested in, how things might affect our family, etc. Like I said, nothing felt right. Again, we were disappointed, but we knew when the time was right, God would let us know.
In the meantime, we were carrying on with our everyday life. Sofia had taken up horse riding lessons, Peter was having a ball in his first season as a competitive gymnast, and Molly was beginning to strut her stuff in gymnastics as well. If I can ever figure out how to link a video onto this website, I have a great clip of Peter doing his rings routine to show you. On a very sad note, Todd's father lost his battle with cancer during this time.
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