Count your blessings...

... name them one by one...

Tonight I found myself humming that to Baby J as he took his last bottle of the day before bed.  Usually the song to hum is one from my childhood, one that my grandma used to sing to babies.  It's to the tune of Come Thou Fount, but really the words are just "by-oh-baby" repeated over and over again.  But tonight, my song was a different one of blessings.

This could have been prompted by the events of today.  Events which were totally unexpected and yet so exciting and promising.  Today, our first foster placement's mom called me up to chat.  It's been months since we last talked... but we made up for it today.  After talking on the phone for nearly an hour, J woke up from his nap and she invited me over.  My hubby was sleeping since he had to work tonight, so I went alone [well, with J] and had good time.  I had a few hours of talking with Mom J and playing with X, C and their older brother Z.  Birthdays are coming up in their family soon.  C will turn 1 at the beginning of March, X will turn 3 at the beginning of April and Z will turn 5 at the beginning of May.  I am so thankful to be able to still be a part of their lives... and to still have them in our life.  I am thankful that Mom J trusts us and is willing to confide in me, even things that she said she has never told anyone.  I am thankful they were our placement, that on that day in March last year, when we didn't know how it would all work out but just that we knew we had to take in these two precious children, that we said yes.  So much has changed since then and yet the whole family is still a blessing in our life.  And I'm hoping this budding relationship will continue to grow.  I'm hoping we can be a blessing to them and that we can share God with them.

If you get a chance, they are going through a tough decision right now.  I'm not at liberty to say what, but they could really use your prayers, even if they don't realize it...

Goodnight.