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For those of you unfamiliar with my current circumstances, let me catch you up. Since graduating from college in 1996, I have moved from Provo to Olympia, WA and back home to Chesapeake, VA. I have lived here for the past eight years. Greg, my husband, and I are the joyful parents of five unique and wonderful children. After 11 1/2 years of being a stay-at-home Mom, I ventured out in to the work place pursuing a love of all things computer. I had been working for over a year when my life changed suddenly and drastically.
Greg and I are very spiritual people. We believe in a loving Heavenly Father who guides us in this life to those choices that are best. We also believe He inspires us as to His will for our lives. Such inspiration came the beginning of April of 2008. After much fasting and earnest prayer, we petitioned to intervene in the custody of my brother's four young children. I won't include here the details of why this was necessary. It is sufficient to say it was the Lord's will. The petition was granted on April 30, 2008 and we were given sole custody of these children. I am now the exhausted stay-at-home mother of nine until the court says otherwise. The journey can be read in the slices below.

5.22.2008

Fighting to Love

I never realized it would be so hard to teach a five year old to love. In our house we never use the words, "I hate you." They are so powerful and permanent. Once spoken they can never be taken back. In our house we love each other. At times we may not like what the other is or does, but we always love one another. For a child that has had people in and out of her life and never knowing who they were to her, she loved and was hurt. It is much easier to hate and be safe, then to love and be hurt. I have to change that, and she fights. She fights so hard. It's wearying. But I endure, I have to because I do love her and her siblings, as I love my own.

Happiness is. . . teaching others it's okay to love.
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