CHRISTMAS DAY

We opened gifts and had breakfast with my oldest
daughter and her family and my mom and sister.

After 3 days of rain and 3 nights of Rebekah not
sleeping well.  Everyone needed to get out of the
house. So being Christmas day everything is closed,
well almost everything. And living in a tourist town we decided to visit
some tourist spots..

Like Wells Beach where the tide was really HIGH !
We have taken the kids to the beach a lot but the tide has never
been this high.

The water is almost up to the road.

 They walked on Ogunquit Beach (to windy for becca)

We went to Perkins Cove.

We took a short walk on the Marginal way.


To see the awe or excitement in these kids faces when they
discover or see something new is just awesome. Or to hear a
new word spoken from one of them.

Soo BLESSED on this Christmas day and every day.

PARADE

YAY,  we made it to the Christmas parade !!!

         we arrived there early so we could set up our chairs

                                                                   And wait

                                                       Rebekah loved being outside

                                                              Shootin for a cure

                                    
                                      It was Gabriel's first live parade and boy was he excited !
                                      Rohana loved the costumes and floats, Hrutuja wanted the
                                      candy.  We usually take the kids to see the fourth of July
                                      and Christmas parades.  Yesterday was really heart warming
                                      to see the joy and happiness on their faces.

                                                     This was how happy he was !!!!
                                          He loves being in America and going to school.

                                        That pictures also shows how happy I am with all
                                     the blessings that God has given us.The chance to change a
                                       life for a child.       It's not all roses, sometimes we have our
                                       hard days but we get thru them.

BIRTHDAY

WOW, 13 days until Christmas.        Jesus's Birthday !!

                                                   The tree is up and see the snow outside

                                                            The stockings are hung.
                                            I do not have a picture of the Birthday cake yet.

This is not what I had planned for Christmas. I wanted to start new
Christmas tradiotions this year by going to a lot of tree lighting's and town
celebrations but because of weather and a child with Lissencephaly kinda
changes everything. Praying that we can have good weather on Sunday for
the Christmas parade.

I am having trouble getting motivated to get Christmas shopping going.
oh, ya... Christmas cards are not mailed out yet...... oiy, oiy

I am happy that I have not scheduled ANY  appointments
during Christmas vacation.... just play dates.

LAST REPORT

We just read Hrutuja's first post placement report and looking
back at pictures. She is still strong willed but also very helpful.
We are just days away from her being home with us for 2 years.

Mommy and Hrutuja in India. We walked this mall 1-2 times a day because
the little one needed to stay busy... I would love to adopt from India again.


Today we took the kids to the mall and I started thinking about this mall
in India which was more decorated than the mall that we took the children
to today.