Dreams........

I am living my dream!

Do you ever stop to remember what you used to sit & imagine about?

I have pondered this a great deal lately.

I wanted to marry a man who loved me & have a dozen children.

In 1998, I began to have my little daydreams fulfilled.

I married someone who loved me in spite of myself.

(& just as a little bonus-he was TALL-really tall!-

something I always wanted but wasn’t sure I would get!)

I love him now more than the day I married him.

In 2001, the rest of my dream began to come to fruition.

Ana was born.

But you know what’s really cool, too?

God even fulfilled a dream I hardly ever spoke of to anyone.

Adoption.

When we married, Dave didn’t even know I had the dream.

And God blessed me again by bringing that dream to reality as well.

Soooo…..the past few weeks-through cooking dinner, wiping noses, soothing tears, temper tantrums (& not always from the 2 year old-ha! ha!), ripped books, spilled milk, egg shells in the food, clingy, cranky teething baby-through all these things…..God has reminded me that THIS is my dream!

Even with all it’s imperfections.

(FFF visitors-sorry,

I have very few family pics-they almost always turn out something like this!)

I know so many women who would love to be in my shoes-having a man & children to love & care for (& that love & care for them back).

Just as an aside-I don’t think I ever told you that Ana (with the help of her dad) made me chocolate chip cookies the other day when I was sick-stomach sick.

“I just thought they might make you feel better, Mommy!”

In spite of not being able to eat them then, I thought-“now this is heaven on earth-such a sweet child!”

I don’t deserve my dreams being fulfilled,

but every day, they are coming true before my eyes.

Thanks be to God! I have people to love & serve!

How about you?

What dreams did you have?

(PS.......I certainly don't want a dozen kids NOW.

Three seems like the perfect number! )