In My Spare Time....

I have been working on some pages to put in an adoption scrapbook for our child(ren).

Number 1:

Journaling reads:

If You Were Mine

When my heart is troubled

And I am weighed down,

Then I like to think of how

This lonesome world would be,

If I could see your face

Or hold you in my arms.

If you were mine,

If you were mine.

If you had a bad dream

I would jump inside it.

And I would fight for you

With all the strength that I could find.

I would lead you home

By your tiny hand.

If you were mine,

If you were mine.

I would sing of love

On the blackest night.

I would sing of God and how

His goodness fills our lives.

I would sing to you

'Til the morning light.

If you were mine,

If you were mine.

-Fernando Ortega

Number 2:

Journaling reads:

A Place For You

One little stranger

One in a million

One homeless angel

One helpless child.

In the fields that God has sown

Blessings live, life is grown.

An empty space, the Father knew

There is a place for you.

So come across the ocean

Safe to the harbor

Into a family

Two worlds away.

Far from your tragedy

Safe and secure.

All along, the Father knew

There is a place for you.

In the sight of Heaven's view,

There is a place for you.

-Wayne Watson

Number 3:

This last one is about an Ethiopian restaurant that Chris and I visited as a cultural experience while doing our adoptive parent training. The food was great, and it was so neat to be able to experience something authentically Ethiopian.

Have a happy Tuesday!