sappy sunday

about a month or so ago - adam and i decided we wanted to be pals. its a program in green bay for kids with brown county social services. the kids are between the ages of three to seven and they all either are living with a single mom or they are living with their grandparents. there are over sixty kids on the waiting list - all waiting for someone to scoop them up and just spend a little extra time with them. so - i signed up - then i told adam about it. glen, the guy the runs the program, might be the mother teresa of green bay - he's a one man show - and there is a lot of work to be done... we filled out our paperwork, sent some forms to some friends to fill out our referral - and he came to our house for a three hour visit - then he told us that we'd have to choose between three or four different girls that we wanted to be pals with - and we set a date to go and look over the paperwork of the little girls and choose our pal... i'm a sucker - for sure - i told adam that i had so much hesitation about picking just one girl - because i knew i'd want to take them all - and even if glen said i couldn't i would somehow come back with a bigger purse and take all their files and go there myself... so we went - last week tuesday - and glen just happened to be running behind and just had one "file" for us (God is good)... as he was reading her story - the tears started rolling down my face. some of the tears were from the pain that she's had in her six very short years of life, some were tears of joy as i found myself reflecting on my near picture perfect childhood and some were tears of hope - for knowing what a difference we could make in just one childs life. as the tears rolled down my face - and shortly before the sobbing, like sobbing i last experienced when my brother jeff hung my dolls from their heads when i was 8 (it still was picture perfect childhood), that amazing hubby of mine put his hand on my thigh and looked at me with his eyes filled with tears something that obviously stung his eyes - and i knew - we had found our match and we couldn't possibly hear another story... so we called her mom, set up our appointment and went the next day to meet our pal. she's amazing. we spent last wednesday night with her and again the afternoon today - she's so brave, so kind, so loving, so strong and i know that together with her mom - we are going to have great things happen for her! our sweet dog maggie was giving her kisses and she was laughing so hard - she was in heaven! we decorated eggs, had an easter egg hunt, went to the park, played war and just did kid stuff -on the way back to her house she looked at adam and i both and said, "i sure am going to miss you guys" it warmed our heart so much!! we feel beyond blessed that God has given us this opportunity and everything about it just seems so right. 






“A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a mark.” -Chinese proverb