No Greater Joy Mom: update on the Moghadam family

No Greater Joy Mom: update on the Moghadam family

Body of Christ - Please pray for this family!

I just now read of a family who is in Ghana right now to adopt a sibling group of four.  The parents have been placed in custody with a charge of child trafficking and their two bio children who are traveling with them have been placed in the very same orphanage as their four adopted children!  Please pray for this family and intercede on their behalf right now for their protection, for the grace and mercy of the Father to set things right quickly for the sake of these parents and their six children.  Our prayers will rise!  Thank you so much!
No Greater Joy Mom: very urgent prayer request

I Promised

Since my friend Lauren  gave me the "Versatile Blogger Award", I  promised her i would write 7 random things about myself and post them on my blog.  So here goes:


1.  I love the color green so much that several rooms in my home are painted various shades of green.
2.  I love cats.
3.  I've wanted to adopt ever since i was five years old.
4.  My favorite ice cream flavor is Rocky Road.
5.  I have flat feet.
6.  I love hiking in the mountains.
7.  I love watermelon.


There!  Done!  

The Latest

Okay, do not do what i did today, and that is delete pictures from your picasa web album.  And do you want to know why not?  Because you will also delete pics off your blog!!!!!


Suffice it to say....I now have many posts without pictures, and I am really not so sure i am up for replacing all of them, or even remembering which pics i had where, for that matter.   Lesson learned, the hard way....


Well we just returned home from a two-night stay at a water park in Sanduskey, Ohio.  Cassie's first ever experience with inner-tubes  and water slides, and let me just say right now, me the proud mama, she did fantastic.  This girl is truly fearless!  All this time I think she was just waiting for a family to show her who she really is.  


Unfortunately I did not get even one picture of them in the water, but i will share a few others with you that i think are cute.  Hopefully you will like them too!

While we were away from home, Cassie lost another tooth, her third one since being with her family!  these are EXCITING times, friends!

The next picture was taken by Cassie while we were at the restaurant.  It reflects what Randy and i have always known - that Sonya is a mommy's girl.  Oh sure, Sonya loves her daddy, and he's the best toy she's ever played with.  Not to mention a wonderfully loving and gentle father to her.   

Now we are learning that daddy has a girl of his own.  Don't get me wrong, Cassie can't live without me.  I mean, I'm the first one she runs to when she wakes up in the middle of the night filled with fear and panic that her new life isn't real.  But no doubt about it, Cassie is a daddy's girl from the top of her head to the tips of her toes!  This next picture is of Cassie at Zhongshan when she is probably five years old.  When I saw it for the very first time, there were two things i identified about her from studying her face and posture.  #1:  She is a perfectionist and likes to do things well.  #2:  She needs a daddy so she can do things well and without fear.  Cassie, once called Zhong Feng Mei, is the last one in line.

But look at her now!

More Pics!

We visited Maple Lane Wildlife Farm in Topeka, IN in late May.  The first pics are of Cassie on her very first EVER camel ride!  Notice the sense of accomplishment that seems to envelope her.

And this is Sonya's second camel ride ever!

More pictures from that day...

Let's Try This Again, Shall We?

Okay, here are some of the pictures i promised you the other day. 

At our recent ENT visit, the following pictures depict a vastly different response/reaction from  my girls when the nurse started probing around inside their ears.  

FINALLY!!!  All done!

Testing