The Shrum Family Adventures: Merry Christmas 2007!

Friday, December 21, 2007

Merry Christmas 2007!

This year just seems so much more exciting to me! The last few years I have been in an adoption funk. But I don't have that excuse this year. Both the girls are home! NO more adoption roller coaster! No more feeling like someone is missing! Thank You Lord!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love watching the eyes of a little one that has never experienced all this Christmas wonder. The lights, trees, Santa, its all so amazing to them. Lilee will be devistated once the tree is gone. She loves the ornaments and redecorates everyday. She LOVES the lights she points and squills with excitement eveytime she sees Christmas lights and says "Dat, Dat" she can say lights but never does.

Here are a few pictures I took (yesterday) of her in the act at the Christmas tree. I had to take some of Sara Ava too! This is her 2nd Christmas home! It is sooooooo fun to have girls and esp. one that loves Princess'.

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Anonymous said...: I can see Christmas dinner under the tree, pants off, diaper off it will taste fantastic!; October 12, 2018 at 3:59 PM

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Verses that really spoke to me and helped me get through our adoptions.

(John 14:18) " I will not leave you as orphans, I will come to you."

(Isaiah 43:5-6) "Do not be afraid, for I am with you,
I will bring your children from the west. Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth."

(Proverbs 25:25) "As cold water is to a thirsty soul : so is good
news from a far country."

(Matthew 6:25-34) The do not worry chapter.
This is the chapter that told me we would adopt again and the
baby girl woud be named Lily (Lilee). "The lilies of the field".
This is a great reminder of why we should not worry, God will take care of his people!

(Psalms 82: 3-4) "Defend the cause of the weak and the fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Resue the weak and neady; deliver them from the hand of the wicked."

(Psalms 68: 5) "A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling."

(Deuteronomy 10:18) " He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow and loves the alien, giving them food and clothing."

(Philippians 4:13) "I can do all things through him who gives me strength."

(Philippians 4:6-7) " Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present
your request to God. And the peace of God,which transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."

(Romans 8:28) " And we know that all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."

(James 1:27) "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after the orphans and widows in their destress, and to keep oneself from being polluted from by the world."