Lessons Learned

I had not realized it had been almost two years that have passed prior to my last post. So much has happened, as you probably noticed. I suppose my heart and head have been all over the place that I rarely had the time to sit and write. In any case, I am back. I could probably write about my whole journey with online dating. Oh gosh, the horrors, the rejections, the ghosting, and even the hopeful moments where my heart would get excited with the idea of it working out. Not sure if I will, but I must write about how God used it all to prepare my heart…

My apologies for being absent for way to long. So much has happened since my last post. After being online dating for about a year, I began a serious relationship with a man I met at a Christian single’s group in Juarez. Then, after a year and two months of dating we got married. It’s been a month since then and are now finishing up a house we purchased. It was this morning that I got inspired about a revelation I just recently had and thought I’d share. As mentioned, we moved out of the Ranch and into our new home right after our honeymoon, and are still working on…

 The year has come to an end, and as always it makes us look back and ponder about what transpired throughout the year we leave behind.  I am at a loss as to where to start.  I am in awe of God’s faithfulness and sovereignty.  There were many firsts this year for me and more so for my children.  Who could have thought that we would be where we are today?!  Only God can turn our lives upside down and then right again.  I find myself sometimes in disbelief that I am now a mom.  We get so caught up with daily stuff that sometimes we forget to acknowledge major…

This summer we had the opportunity to be able to take a vacation. In one of our most recent adoptions at the Ranch, I found out that in Mexico adoptive parents also get a maternity leave. I had been wanting to take some time off and spend more than a couple of days with my dad and brother, so this was an answer to my prayer. After school finished, we went to Chihuahua City, my hometown, to stay with my dad and brother. A couple of days later, we had the priveledge to join the Ranch kids and some of the staff on their vacation to Creel. I’m so grateful…

I realize the title kind of gives it all away. And there is probably so many other things I could write about. Yet, I cannot and feel I must write my Little E a mermoir. So forgive me for being redundant and using this as part of my mourning process. For those of you new to my blog, little E was a baby girl whom I had the priveledge of caring for a few months. (Feel free to check out the following blog about our life together, God’s interruptions). I had just been here for about 2/3 months when we begun having an influx of babies. Therefore, I volunteered to…

As I mentioned in my previous post, after being discharged from the hospital we stopped at the pharmacy to get some medication. I had become nauseas and vomited. Thankfully, I was able to make the 45 minute trip back home with only one more incident. Grateful that God gave me the sense to stop drinking water, which I found later was probably what caused the nausea. My kids were waiting for me and were quick to send me to bed to rest. I was moved by their care. The first week, as I was bed ridden, they were constantly telling me not to get up or do anything. The first…

Some of you might know that last year in April, while we were in quarantine, I had a thrombosis on my left leg. I didn’t know what that was, much less that it had happened to me. All I knew is that one morning there was a huge black bruise on my leg. It is not uncommon for me to forget if I hit myself somewhere and later see the bruise, so I figured I must have hit myself somewhere. Unlike any other bruise, this one hurt much more, and it was painful to even walk. Even just feeling the clothes caress it hurt. Unfortunately, I don’t tend to fret…