A New Season

If someone would have even suggested that I would be sitting in my kitchen in Ellsworth, Maine, looking out over a beautiful forrest of brilliant fall colors on our 2+ acre piece of property, waiting for a daughter to come from China to become a first-time mother at the age of 57, I would have thought they were from outer space! But that describes my current status in a nutshell. I will also add...working in the fabrics and crafts department in Walmart and establishing a brand new way of living on the other side of the United States from where I was born and raised and lived all of my life (in California) until January of this year. No family, no friends...everything new and different. I am learning to adjust and asking daily for God's grace to embrace His divinely ordained "season of change" for my life. He is giving the grace and I am dragging my feet and complaining all the way...but we are beginning to meet somewhere in the center of this walk of "obedience" He is calling me to follow Him in.

Since joining the world of adopting a daughter from China, I have encountered the world of blogging. It is a very different world and one I thought I would never enter until I continued to read and enjoy so many of my fellow Chinese adoptive families' blogs. It is a fascinating world that I jumped into and began to share my life in by setting up a blog about our daughter to be. This website is on hold for now (due to the slow down in adoptions), but I may update it as we get more news from our agency. However, just this morning as I was reading some news on the adoption websites I came across a blog of a woman who was sharing her sewing and knitting and crocheting projects online. This caught my attention and I decided to jump in on a more personal level. I read more about blogging and it indicated it was a way to keep a journal and to organize your thoughts and your life. I could definitely use this!!! So....here I go. I may even get brave enough to not be afraid who sees it or comments on it. This would be a HUGE change for me.