Old dogs learning new tricks......and many blessings!

So I am again grateful for my children...specifically my daughter Tessica tonight....
I have been procrastinating this whole blog thing for quite a while....see it has always been on my list of "Things to do" It would rise to the top only to be shuffled back down to the bottom of the list with washing windows and mucking out some dark corner of my house. Tessica started this blog for me two months ago (my how time flies.....) but we just needed to take the time to sit down and figure the whole thing out. And today was the day! Tessica must have been avoiding some school assignment or something cause she helped me instead of doing other things and we did it!!!! She is much faster at negotiating the whole computer thing.... I just sit behind her and watch..... She figures it out and then shows me!!!! It works!

I --like you are grateful for many things- having just celebrated Thanksgiving and gearing up for Christmas --I am reflecting on the things I value. The #1 thing is my Relationship with my Family and my Heavenly Father. It seems like I have been on a whirlwind tour for the last several years. See the most important things in my life are NOT THINGS..they are my family....and all the other stuff was just...well stuff. I started going down to Haiti about three years ago doing volunteer work at an orphanage down there--On one of my trips I found my kids. I would have never thought to look for them there--- but Heavenly Father knew and he showed me my beautiful daughter Tayjah Elimene and my sweet boy Titus Chrisphel-- they hopefully will be home by summer-- it has taken two years but they are worth it! And just to prove that Heavenly Father is generous, loving, and has a very good sense of humor-- he gave me the opportunity to "tripple" my kids ------And Tivian Colleen was born July 30th of this year. In One year we will have gone from three kiddos to SIX! What incredible blessings! They definitely have help to soften the trials and blows that have come our way...This of course has/will mean a lot of changes for my family and I....I feel like I am on a great big adventure....are you ready for the ride?......I AM!

I have so enjoyed reading my families and friends' blogs -- With many of them so far away and every ones life so busy- this is a great way to keep up with each other. Hope you enjoy ours--- I will be the primary editor but I hope you will get to hear from my kids too!