With soo much paper work to organize and complete and t-shirts to design and trips out-of-town to help family get organized......well, I can say I'm tired at the very least. I am patiently waiting (not really) for my husband to get home because I received our certified papers yesterday and our dossier is ready, but we need one more thing....his passport pictures. I've been pretty irritated--I've worked soo hard to get everything in as quickly as possible and here I sit...waiting. So tonight when he arrives from Minneapolis I hope he isn't too tired to make that happen. And just when I think the paperwork is finished I think about the hours and hours I need to put into applying for some grants. It makes me tired just thinking of the things I have on my plate right now--not to mention Luke's Birthday in two weeks. So instead of feeling sorry for myself I thought I'd make a list of the things that have made me feel ever soo happy and grateful.
It's much nicer to read those things anyway,
RIGHT? :0)
~~Last week my sister finally spoke from her heart about our adoption and told me she's starting to "get it". I couldn't ask for any more than that right now (tears are coming).
~~My brother's fiance' and her mama drew up my t-shirt design exactly how I've had it in my head.....in ten minutes. (noone else seemed to understand).
~~The artist who is re-drawing my t-shirt design for me said he would work it in, in the next few days, rather than the two weeks he originally quoted (just when I didn't think I could take the stress of it any more).
~~The nice lady (and her supervisor) at the post office accepted my check regardless of the fact I had no driver's license for verification.
~~My wallet arrived in the mail with my driver's license and debit card still inside.
~~My husband is coming home after two long weeks of being on the road, and it's soo great that he always accepts the house for the state it's in. :0)
~~The mini-van is paid off and that's allowing us to save some money to help with adoption fees.
~~ Everything seems to be falling in to place.
I think that's good for today---NOW I feel better. Thanks for letting me vent.
The egg is a symbol of life. And when Spring comes we see the birth of many things anew. While we talk about the rebirth of Spring we also think of Jesus Christ. So when we celebrate Spring we may do so with the egg. Somewhere down the line the celebration of Easter and Spring became confused (or thrown together) and it became the Easter egg. But the roots of Easter began pre-Christian, and according to Greek mythology, when the ancient Anglo-Saxons worshiped a fertility goddess, named Ostara, they would offer her seeds and colored eggs to please her. The word "Easter" is actually translated from "Ostara". It is also thought that she transformed a bunny (which later became known as the Easter bunny) from a bird, which laid colored eggs for the children. In the earlier days of America, the settlers would recount stories that the Easter bunny would bring colored eggs for the good little children, which would be left if their bonnets and ball caps.
What a totally confusing thing for a parent to decide. Are we telling a big-fat lie that the Easter bunny is coming? Well, we were really beginning to feel this way, especially when it came down to all the questions. Zachary was wondering how he got inside our house....and how could he carry all of that stuff? What are we teaching our children? So we told them that we still want to celebrate Spring with the eggs and the baskets and the fun. But we want it to be known that we do not honor a bunny, or an egg, or the gifts. This day is about our Savior who died on the cross for us. It all seems to tie together now. These holiday traditions sure are tricky! And then of course, they wanted to know about........Santa. :0) A story for a different time. 
coloring eggs with my sister's family at our house.
