Living in the Light: Blog Pause

Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Blog Pause

Please excuse, in advance, a temporary lack of blogging here on Bridget's Light. We are in Ukraine getting ready to meet Alina and bring her home. We're merging Bridget's Light and Loving Alina shortly, so stay tuned for a whole new blog from the Peele family :).

In the meantime, please follow our journey to our newest family member on Loving Alina.

7 comments:

KelliWednesday, April 07, 2010
What you and your family are doing is so amazing! Alina is so blessed to very shortly have a new loving family!!
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Monica CrumleyWednesday, April 07, 2010
HUGS to you. I can't wait to hear good news.
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ChrisFriday, April 09, 2010
Just checking in, just read in NY Times that Soviet Union my freeze US adoptions. Hope you don't run into any trouble bringing Alina home!
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LisaSaturday, April 10, 2010
Chris, the terrible story about the little boy who was returned has to do with Russia...we are in Ukraine...so thankfully this should not impact our adoption. It is very troubling, though, in many ways...
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dnewton78Thursday, April 22, 2010
I just found this blog today! Bridget is beautiful and the new pics are amazing. Did you take them yourself? I have an 8 month old daughter with DS and love finding blogs that share the successes of our children!
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AnonymousSaturday, May 01, 2010
Dear Lisa: Your site was forwarded to me by my daughter who is the Mom of a beautiful little girl born with down syndrome last August. She is truly a little girl who has touched our family's heart. I wish only good things for you and yours after reading your heartfelt story.
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LisaSaturday, May 01, 2010
dnewton, yes all of the pics are mine on this blog...I am a complete amateur photographer, but I know what looks right to my eye & do love to take photos of my family :)...
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Welcome

For those of you already following us, Bridget's Light and Loving Alina have merged :). For anyone who is new to our story, Welcome!

Bridget and Alina are the youngest of our six children. Bridget (born July, 2006) is our biological daughter. Alina (born March, 2007, and adopted into our family April, 2010) is the daughter of our hearts. Both girls have Down syndrome.

Feel free to browse this blog at your leisure, to comment or to email us. We're are happy to answer questions or provide more detail to others who are interested in learning more about life with Down syndrome, or about our International Adoption experience.

Living in the Light

I've replayed the day Bridget was born a million times...and I hate saying (and remembering) that the day was filled with sadness and uncertainty. It makes me mad--though I'm not sure at exactly who or what--that we wasted that day being somber when we should have been celebrating. I feel sad for the kids, for Chris and for me, and for our extended family and friends who were worried--heart heavy--for us. If we knew then what we know now, we would have been celebrating. The little girl that arrived in our lives that Sunday in July was the best thing that ever happened to us.

She is everything that is good about Life.

I've re-written the moments in my mind to go something like this:

We were just beginning.
A beautiful life awaited us--
and it was far more beautiful
than we'd imagined.
It is the day we got her;
the day that everything came together.
It is the day we began living in the light...

Take Your Coat Off & Stay Awhile...

If you visit our house, you are welcome to kick your shoes off by the front door, or leave them on--whichever is most comfortable for you. The same applies when you visit here.

You should feel free to stop by often or sporadically. Leave comments whenever you'd like, but don't feel obligated (I'll always answer questions or entertain topics for new posts. Just email me or leave a comment if there's something you'd like me to address or know. And I'll keep writing even if everyone out there is silent...but if everyone out there leaves feedback, I'll have much more to write about!)

If you knock on my door and I'm in my pj's, I may or may not answer (I always assume it's the Fed Ex guy, anyway). But that is part of the beauty of blogland...you can pop in here, without warning, at any time day or night. You can slip quietly away, or take up residence. Since there's no chance of waking a sleeping baby--or encountering unflushed toilets--you can also go anywhere you please on this blog at your leisure.

This is all to say that however you got here, and whatever shape you came in, I'm glad you stopped by. Feel free to stay awhile and look around...

Living in the Light

Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Blog Pause

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