There it is.
My 11-year-old New Year’s Resolutions. Right between “get 8 and one half hours of sleep” and “become famous,” is “family adobt a baby.”
I don’t remember what originally started my interest in adoption. But, my mom says I was always interested in it. A year or two after I wrote these resolutions, I was just figuring out the internet on a very slow computer in our unfinished basement that I thought was the bomb. I would sit at this big old metal desk and look at the pictures of children available for adoption for hours. I asked my parents if they’d adopt one of these children. I think they thought I was a little crazy. Maybe I was. I didn’t have a clue about the process and the needs of these children. I just knew they needed a home and that we were a pretty good one. The Lord had warmed my heart to the needs of children even before I could easily see their faces. He was already preparing me.
I had forgotten all about this list until we were cleaning out my parents’ home during the summer of 2008 and found it in an old briefcase with a bunch of random papers of mine. And, as Type A as I am, I can tell you that out of the 20 goals on this list, only few were reached. I don’t even remember who Matt was (#2). I don’t think having a blog counts as becoming famous (goal #8). I think I did reach being the second most popular girl (#9) that year until Mary Beth (that would be contestant #1) ousted me for some reason. And, although I quickly reached having 40 pairs of earrings (#15), I never made it to Germany (#16) and I’m sure I quickly bailed on writing in my diary everyday (#13).
But, 22 years later, we “adobted” a baby.
That is so awesome! You should frame that thing! :)
That list is so precious! Along with all the other goals, it is so special to see how long ago God placed adoption on your heart.
Amazing! Isn’t adobtion wonderful? ;o)
Love it!!!!
HaHa!! So cute! Love this!!
I love how the Lord just placed that desire in your heart at such a young age.
I LOVE it! Love that God was preparing you AND your parents for little Lydia :)
You big lucky, getting to be second most popular!!
that is super neat!
I love this! How adorable. And you know I believe God started that seed in you early! I thought about adoption as a very young girl too. I remember pretending to adopt my Teddy bear and remembering telling him that it was okay his nose was falling off because I thought he was perfect the way he was. God was working on my heart back then too! HE certainly knows best doesn’t He?
This is a treasure to find Kelly! I love it! What a sweet item to share with Lydia–sure to assure her that adopting her was a FIRST priority to you. That she was not a second thought or Plan B. :) That’s a wonderful gift to a little girl’s security and identity. :) Precious.
Kelly,
I love that you posted you resolutions! Lydia will love to see that she was growing in your heart when you were only 11 years old!! What a wonderful thing to be able to share with her someday!
Tricia
I love this kind of thing… My mom has a book I made when I was around 12. One of the things in there was adopt a baby, too… Along with living in the mountains (does VF Mountain nearby count?)… and traveling to work with babies in orphanage… i can’t remember what else.. for me, it was 30 years later we had the pleasure of our first son, home from russia, to light our lives.
i just love your blog, kelly… i may not post often, but i do come by as often as i can and read it… and frankly, you ARE famous with your blog — your other blog changes lives, and this blog will be so so important to your children…
so glad to have the pleasure of knowing you!
Amy