Celebrating....

Celebrating two cool things this weekend...

1) Leon turned 17 and chose to go to Olive Garden with just he and Wilson last night. We had a very mellow meal. There are few kids like Leon in the world. He is compliant, respectful, kind, generous, caring and patient. He has lived with us since he was 12 and has been consistently a joy to parent. I'm so sad that he's seventeen already. I don't want him to grow up and move out. ;-(

2) I got invited to host a seminar at the Together for Adoption conference in Duluth, Georgia this September. I'm super excited as this is one of the largest Adoption and Orphan Care conference in the country and it's gonna be awesome.

In the midst of celebrating though we have had our share of ups and downs -- bought a new love seat for our bedroom that we're trying to fit in there. Not easy, especially with the number of very large "helpers" who have so much very loud "input." We also have some unbloggable stuff happening again.....

But there is always that moment of joy to celebrate if you look for it!