It's been a while since i updated and since the purpose is for Michell to one day look back over our journey I thought I would write about everything she has going on. First of all, her visa expired in Feb of this year. We sent in the fees and applications to have it renewed back in November last year but it took until August or so of this year before we finally received notice that it had been approved. We received her new visa a couple of weeks later and it is good until she is 15 so at least we don't have to worry about that for a while.
She started kindergarten and she loves it. She is so smart and eagerly learning new things everyday. She loves her teacher and she has made some new friends. Her teacher says she is the most responsible kindergarten student she has ever met which makes me so proud and also doesn't surprise me at all. She has always been very responsible and such a good girl! She has gotten a lot taller.
She is still a tiny thing though. Her school clothes are a size 4/5 and we still have to wear a belt with some of them. Her shoes size is a 8 1/2. Her and Micah are having to adjust not being around each other 24/7 now that she is in big school. He is still going to the baby sitter 2 days a week but he misses her during the day and is ready to pick her up by the time she gets out. They are still really cute together. She is learning to read at school and so she has been teaching him to read when she comes home. He sits right with her and does her homework right along side her. It reminds me of when Maddie started kindergarten and Mackenzie would do the same thing. Everything Maddie learned, Mackenzie learned it a the same time.
Speaking of the big kids. Mackenzie decided on LSU and left in August to move to Baton Rouge, LA. We miss her so much. We talk to her on the phone almost daily but it's not the same. We are planning a trip to go visit very soon. Madeline is a senior at UNT and still working full time as she works to get her double major. I am so proud of both of them. Mason is in 8th grade this year and still says he hates school and its boring and he doesn't learn anything....lol. Everyone is doing good. Martin and I still love our jobs and we will be in our house a year come October. Time passes by so fast, way to fast for my liking!
Michell still talks to her mom frequently, sometimes a couple times a week. We keep her updated with school and everything she is doing. She still talks to her extended family too. She talked to her grandma yesterday in Honduras. She asked Michell when she was going to come visit. Michell said one day. Her grandma told Martin do you think she remembers anything about Honduras. He assured her that she does. We talk about it all of the time and she looks at pictures of her family.
We had this conversation at the dinner table about a week ago. Martin asked her why she had 2 mommies and Michell said I don't know. I told her that she has two mommies cause she is a very lucky little girl. I told her that her Mommy Karen loved her so much that she wanted her to come live with us so she could have a better life and go to a really good school so that she could be really smart. I told her that she is lucky because some kids don't even have one mommy and she has two mommies that love her soooooo much. We have never really talked to her about why she lives with us and she has never really questioned it. She has less and less moments of sadness like she used to of missing her mom and this makes me happy and sad. Happy that she is not sad but sad that she is getting bigger and those memories probably are a little faded. I want her to remember how much her mommy loved her when she was in Honduras and I want us to always support that relationship as much as we can. I don't want her to ever think she is here for any other reason than we loved her and wanted her and her mommy loved her so much that she let her go. Still hard on all of us,still learning as we go! Still BLESSED beyond measure!
Saturday, September 19, 2015
Friday, February 27, 2015
Two Year Anniversary
Today marks a very special day in my life. It is filled with unspeakable sadness and a joy that can't compare to anything else I've ever experienced. Today marks the 4 year anniversary that my sister left this earth and went to meet our Heavenly Father. While it still brings selfish tears to my eyes to even think about it, I know she is in a beautiful place where she no longer has to suffer from the headaches she endured on this earth. Even knowing that, I still miss her dearly and wish she was still here with us. On the other hand, today also marks the 2 year anniversary of bringing Michell home. I cant believe that it's been 2 years. Throughout the journey of getting her here I could have never dreamed that it would end up being on the anniversary date of Leslie leaving this earth. God is so perfect in his timing. He knew how much we missed her and that we needed something good to happen on that day to ease our suffering. He blessed us with such a wonderful gift.
Its hard to even remember what it was like before Michell came into our family. It seems as if she has always been here. To say that she has thrived is quiet the understatement. She is perfect. She fits in perfectly with our little family as well as our extended family from here to Mexico.
A lot has happened with our family since the last time I updated the blog. First off, I finally graduated! Whoo Hoo! Didn't think that was ever gonna happen. Secondly we moved to Texas, bought a house and are much closer to the big kids. Me and Martin have both been blessed with jobs we love. We love our house, where we moved and of course getting to spend more time together as a family with the big kids is something we all love. Kenzie is a senior and still trying to decide where she is going to go to college. I'm going to be so sad when she leaves but I am so proud of who she is. Madeline is in her 3rd year at UNT and working full time. She is a beautiful person on the inside and out and I couldn't be more proud of her. Mason is a teenager.....WHERE DID THE TIME GO? (he was just my baby a couple days ago I swear).
What can I say about Michell and Micah......they are more like twins than siblings. They both went to their well checks in December. Michell weighed 35.6 and Micah weighed 34.6. Michell was 41 1/2 " tall and Micah was 39". Michell still wears a size 8 toddler shoe (just one size up from what she was wearing when she came home from Honduras) She wears a size 5 in clothes. They both love each other (although you wouldn't know from all the screaming I hear going on at this very moment). Michell is such a big girl. We pick out her clothes the night before and when I wake her in the morning she jumps up (and thanks me for waking her sometimes..lol) and then goes and brushes her teeth, gets her self dressed and brushes her hair. She then helps me get Micah ready so we can get out the door. She still loves to help around the house and helps keep her and Micah's room clean.
You would never know that her and Mackenzie are only related by love....she acts just like her. She copies everything Mackenzie does. She will even brush her hair and come and tell me "look, my hair is just like Kenzie" or she will get dressed and say "my shirt is just like Kenzie's" its so cute.
Another big moment over the last year is that we all got to go to Mexico to visit Martin's family. It was a really great trip. His mom was so excited to get to see the kids. She carried them around everywhere (even though they are almost as big as her) It was fun to finally meet his family and they were all great just like I knew they would be. It was a trip we wont soon forget.
We signed Michell up for soccer and she starts playing next week. We are all excited about that. She is so excited about starting to school next year. She has learned to write her first and last name and all of her numbers 1-10. She does her "homework" everyday. She loves to ride her bike and play in the backyard or the "garden" as Micah calls it.
Michell still talks to her mom at least once or twice a week. The language barrier is hard to deal with. Michell still understands Spanish but doesn't really speak it very well. We usually talk to her about new things she is going to tell her mommy so then she will ask Martin how to say it in Spanish. It is very important to me that she has a relationship with her mom even if it is only over the phone. Michell knows that she is loved and missed by her family in Honduras and that is a good thing. We haven't had a Skype call with her mom in almost a year. She doesn't have internet at her house so it's an ordeal just to travel somewhere where she has to pay to use the internet for an hour and hope that it works....more often than not it doesn't. That is hard for Michell. She gets so excited at the thought of seeing her mom. The last time we were suppose to "see" her on the computer Michell got up early and put on her favorite princess dress so she could show her mommy. As the day wore on she asked me no less than 100 times when her mommy was going to call. By that afternoon we had to break the news that it didn't look like it was going to happen that day. I found her sitting on her bed quietly crying a few minutes later. She was completely devastated and I was heart broken for her. It is so hard, and just another reminder that no matter how much I love her or how much she loves me she still misses her mommy and I can't fix that. Usually she does really well but then there will be times when she cries about everything. If you ask her why she is crying she cant tell you. It will last for several days and then she will be better. I know it is because she is just missing her mom and she can't even understand that right now. I will admit it wears on me sometimes and I feel guilty about that but I have to remind myself and Martin that she has every right to be an overly emotional child. Who knows if her moving her away from the only life and family she knew will have long lasting effects on her. All I can do is pray that we give her the best life she can have.
She is a special little girl. God has a plan for her and I am blessed beyond what I deserve for getting to be part of that plan.........I get to be her other mommy!
Our trip to Mexico....Us with Martin's mom
Its hard to even remember what it was like before Michell came into our family. It seems as if she has always been here. To say that she has thrived is quiet the understatement. She is perfect. She fits in perfectly with our little family as well as our extended family from here to Mexico.
A lot has happened with our family since the last time I updated the blog. First off, I finally graduated! Whoo Hoo! Didn't think that was ever gonna happen. Secondly we moved to Texas, bought a house and are much closer to the big kids. Me and Martin have both been blessed with jobs we love. We love our house, where we moved and of course getting to spend more time together as a family with the big kids is something we all love. Kenzie is a senior and still trying to decide where she is going to go to college. I'm going to be so sad when she leaves but I am so proud of who she is. Madeline is in her 3rd year at UNT and working full time. She is a beautiful person on the inside and out and I couldn't be more proud of her. Mason is a teenager.....WHERE DID THE TIME GO? (he was just my baby a couple days ago I swear).
What can I say about Michell and Micah......they are more like twins than siblings. They both went to their well checks in December. Michell weighed 35.6 and Micah weighed 34.6. Michell was 41 1/2 " tall and Micah was 39". Michell still wears a size 8 toddler shoe (just one size up from what she was wearing when she came home from Honduras) She wears a size 5 in clothes. They both love each other (although you wouldn't know from all the screaming I hear going on at this very moment). Michell is such a big girl. We pick out her clothes the night before and when I wake her in the morning she jumps up (and thanks me for waking her sometimes..lol) and then goes and brushes her teeth, gets her self dressed and brushes her hair. She then helps me get Micah ready so we can get out the door. She still loves to help around the house and helps keep her and Micah's room clean.
You would never know that her and Mackenzie are only related by love....she acts just like her. She copies everything Mackenzie does. She will even brush her hair and come and tell me "look, my hair is just like Kenzie" or she will get dressed and say "my shirt is just like Kenzie's" its so cute.
Another big moment over the last year is that we all got to go to Mexico to visit Martin's family. It was a really great trip. His mom was so excited to get to see the kids. She carried them around everywhere (even though they are almost as big as her) It was fun to finally meet his family and they were all great just like I knew they would be. It was a trip we wont soon forget.
We signed Michell up for soccer and she starts playing next week. We are all excited about that. She is so excited about starting to school next year. She has learned to write her first and last name and all of her numbers 1-10. She does her "homework" everyday. She loves to ride her bike and play in the backyard or the "garden" as Micah calls it.
Michell still talks to her mom at least once or twice a week. The language barrier is hard to deal with. Michell still understands Spanish but doesn't really speak it very well. We usually talk to her about new things she is going to tell her mommy so then she will ask Martin how to say it in Spanish. It is very important to me that she has a relationship with her mom even if it is only over the phone. Michell knows that she is loved and missed by her family in Honduras and that is a good thing. We haven't had a Skype call with her mom in almost a year. She doesn't have internet at her house so it's an ordeal just to travel somewhere where she has to pay to use the internet for an hour and hope that it works....more often than not it doesn't. That is hard for Michell. She gets so excited at the thought of seeing her mom. The last time we were suppose to "see" her on the computer Michell got up early and put on her favorite princess dress so she could show her mommy. As the day wore on she asked me no less than 100 times when her mommy was going to call. By that afternoon we had to break the news that it didn't look like it was going to happen that day. I found her sitting on her bed quietly crying a few minutes later. She was completely devastated and I was heart broken for her. It is so hard, and just another reminder that no matter how much I love her or how much she loves me she still misses her mommy and I can't fix that. Usually she does really well but then there will be times when she cries about everything. If you ask her why she is crying she cant tell you. It will last for several days and then she will be better. I know it is because she is just missing her mom and she can't even understand that right now. I will admit it wears on me sometimes and I feel guilty about that but I have to remind myself and Martin that she has every right to be an overly emotional child. Who knows if her moving her away from the only life and family she knew will have long lasting effects on her. All I can do is pray that we give her the best life she can have.
She is a special little girl. God has a plan for her and I am blessed beyond what I deserve for getting to be part of that plan.........I get to be her other mommy!
Our trip to Mexico....Us with Martin's mom
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