Hard week, but we made it

Joyce started 1st grade on Wednesday.  Lots of adjustments in the Arnold house.  Let's just say Sneha looked like an angel before school this week.  Adoption is loss, change, redemption, and learning to have patience and love.  Some days are just one foot in front of the other.  Some are just standing one's ground.  My friend and fellow adoptive mother, Debbie Hard, says that if we can get through the first 6 months of adjustment things settle down after that and a new normal is formed.  I am hanging on to those words, and know that God placed our family together.  I find the music from GLEE a good distraction.  I am so glad that we have 5 children.  My life is never boring.  I am thankful that we have good insurance to take part in all of the resources we have here in America.  We are so blessed to live in this country!!!I think of the places I have had the privilege to travel to we have so many resources.  Elijah had life saving skull surgery.  He may not have been in this world without it.  Sneha had her ear drums repaired so she now hears the world around her, and she couldn't for the first 8 years of her life.  Not to mention seizure medication so she is alert to the world around her.  Fewer and fewer days of being in a seizure fog.  Joyce will soon be able to hear the world around her.  She will have an FM system in school so the teacher's voice will transmit directly into her hearing aide so she can learn.  So let us rejoice in this time of economic down turn, and proclaim with God all things are possible.