OK, JUST HAD TO SHARE THIS LITTLE STORY WITH YOU... MY MOM AND I WENT TO LUNCH TODAY AT OUR FAVORITE LITTLE CAFE IN CADILLAC. I ONLY HAD ELIJAH TODAY--THE THREE GIRLS WERE WITH THEIR OTHER GRANDMA FOR THE DAY!! SO THE 3 OF US WERE SITTING AT OUR TABLE AND OUR WAITRESS CAME AND HANDED US OUR BILL, SHE WAS VERY NICE AND HAD BEEN PAYING LOTS OF ATTENTION TO ELI (B/C HE'S SO DARN CUTE) THRU-OUT OUR LUNCH... SHE THEN LEANED DOWN BY HIM AND SAID, "LOOK AT ALL THAT THICK, BLACK HAIR".......AND I SAID "I KNOW, ISN'T IT GREAT?".........AND SHE SAID "WOW, DID YOU HAVE A TON OF HEARTBURN OR WHAT?" AND I JUST ABOUT DIED AND BOUT GOT TEARS IN MY EYES. (OK FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT BEEN PREGO, HEART BURN IS A VERY NORMAL SIDE EFFECT OF PREGNANCY AND I ACUTALLY HAVE HAD IT REALLY BAD WITH ALL MY GIRLS AND THERE IS AN OLD WIVES TALE THAT SAYS IF YOU HAVE BAD HEARTBURN, YOUR NEW-BORN WILL BE BORN WITH LOTS OF HAIR..............SO YOU KNOW WHERE I AM GOING WITH THIS..... SHE THOUGHT HE WAS MY BIO SON ..........I HAVE TO SAY I WAS THRILLED WITH THIS COMMENT. THAT IS THE FIRST TIME ANYONE HAS EVER SAID ANYTHING LIKE THAT TO ME ---I THEN WENT ON TO SAY THAT HE IS ADOPTED FROM GUATEMALA AND SHE FELT SO BAD AND SAID SHE HAD PUT HER FOOT IN HER MOUTH BUT I TOLD HER NOT TO FEEL THAT WAY AND THAT I WAS HONORED THAT SHE THOUGHT THAT. (HE HE, IF DADDY HAD BEEN THERE SHE WOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT HE COULD NOT BE OUR BIO CHILD B/C OF HIS HAIR COLOR---ALMOST WHITE ) AND ELI HAS DEF LOST HIS DARK GUAT SHINE AND IS TURNING INTO A PASTEY MICHIGAN WHITE SINCE NOT BEING IN THE SUN AND THAT HOT CLIMATE ALL THE TIME((HAS ANYONE ELSE NOTICED THIS IN THEIR BABE?) ANYHOW........IT WAS JUST FUN..... AND I WAS OH SO PROUD TO SAY HE IS MY ADOPTED SON ----ADOPTION IS SO DEAR TO MY HEART!!
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Did you have heartburn?????
Posted by Mami Sue at 9:35 AM
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Hee hee. That is GREAT. :) If only people truly understood that there is no difference and you really do feel as if they are your biological children. NO need to put your foot in your mouth! :) Bazzy definitely gets lighter in the winter too. I love when he has the dark brown Guatemalan glow in the summer. I also can't get enough of that shiny soft black hair. Don't you just LOVE it? We're so blessed! :) I will be praying for your virus. I hope you are feeling better!
Roberta
Sue - what a special thing! That is so cool. Elijah is most definitely part of us, even if he's not biological. Like your poem says, "he didn't grow under your heart, but in it." In all of ours too! We love him so!
That is awesome! I think it is great that you heard the call to adopt (and listened!) and made that cute little boy your own.
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