LID – 9/16/13!

This means that all of our paperwork/dossier/items are now "logged in" to the system and that we are eligible to receive a call with a referral for a child when the next "shared list" is published.  (In order to receive what is called an "LID-only" file (usually considered to be more minor special needs/younger children), you must first have your dossier "logged in".  There are other children who are considered "special focus."  Families do not have to already be "logged in" to submit a Letter of Intent for "special focus" children.   We are open to needs that might be considered both "LID-only" and "special focus," but we - and our agency - thought that the best chance for us to be matched was to be "LID" first.  So, now we wait - hopefully for the October list!

 

INSPIRATION FOR OUR JOURNEY:

 

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it is over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.

I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”

― Mary Oliver

 

 

 

 

 

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.  So throw off the bowlines.  Sail away from the safe harbor.  Catch the trade winds in your sails."

- Mark Twain

 

“When you are in the final days of your life, what will you want?
Will you hug that college degree in the walnut frame? Will you ask to be carried to the garage so you can sit in your car? Will you find comfort in rereading your financial statement? Of course not. What will matter then will be people.

If relationships will matter most then, shouldn't they matter most now?”

- Max Lucado