Thoughts about Adoption

Whenever Aaron and I talk about having more children someday, the option of adoption would invariably come up. And why not? Almost a dozen of our cousins in his family were adopted, and it is not as shocking a proposition as it might seem.

For someone with my background, it is a huge thing to change my mind about. After all, my parents don't "believe" that adoption is Biblical. I remember asking my dad about it, and being less than satisfied with his response. I am not about to go into that over here, but since I never sought another view on the matter, I adopted (haha) Aaron's opinion about adoption when I married him. Basically, Aaron told me that if adoption were not Biblical, Jesus wouldn't have had Joseph as his earthly father, would he? And since adoption, by definition, makes a child your very own . . . that pretty much refuted the reasons I bought into as a kid.

Compassion. Love. Generosity. Rescue. Trust.

These emotions, and so many more come to mind when I ponder the idea of bringing home an orphaned, or abandoned child. I experienced them all again tonight, as I saw a video and read about the rescue efforts of Drawn from Water, a ministry in Africa that rescues children who were deemed cursed and sentenced to death by their very own families and tribes.

Having a nine-month old baby myself, I cannot fathom how people could determine that a baby is cursed/dirty/unclean simply because his top teeth came in before his bottom teeth. The faces of kids who were abandoned by their families made the tragedy of such superstition more real, and me just want to reach out to help.

And some day, in our future, I believe we will be able to.

Because we want to.

~ Mrs. Arcfide

Two Years

Two years ago, I married My Man.

Lots of love, laughter, joy . . . and no regrets. :)
Happy Anniversary, m'dear!


~ Mrs. Arcfide

We have the coolest kid.

Yup, for an 8 month old, she's pretty adorable.

Pardon me . . . I do believe I can be biased. :-)

~ Mrs. Arcfide

Fun Comparison

She is most definitely a mixture of the two of us!
Mikaela has my lips and cheeks, and Aaron's eyes.

~ Mrs. Arcfide

Mikaela in March 2010, or My First iMovie Project

This is so much more fun than school. Seriously.

Instead of writing a paper, I spent the last hour or so experimenting with iMovie for my very first time. And now that I got myself started, I'm wondering why I've never played around with it before.

I know this little production is by no means perfect. I'm too tired to critique it with an eye for artistic detail . . . but I am just more than happy I now know how to make a slide-show/video of my darling set to music. It IS fun. :)

If I have more free time anytime soon, I hope to go back to my archives and make similar movies of my favorite Mikaela pictures and videos from each month of her life. Go, me!

~ Mrs. Arcfide

Celebrate 5 months

Our little monkey can now smile on command!

The words she finds so funny?
"Say, Peek-a-boo!"

Well, sometimes she confuses another Kodak moment
with the game. :)

~ Mrs. Arcfide

Just because she's irresistably CUTE . . .

And she's 4 months!

~ Mrs. Arcfide

Cloistered Homeschool Syndrome

This article is one of the most balanced views on the topic that I've read.

It says in so many words the ideas that have been formulating in my head about the way we hope to raise our children . . .

~ Mrs. Arcfide