Mita and Miley
I’ve officially earned the Bad Mom of the Year award…and it is only March. I was just looking through my posts and realized that I did not write about Mita’s birthday. My second baby in double digits and I did not share this with the world!!!
Celebrating your child’s birthday can be bittersweet as we watch them grow up so fast, and long for them to stop growing, yet we are so proud of what they are doing and who they are becoming. This is our second birthday with Mita and she has changed so much in the last two years. She is becoming a young lady with a beautiful smile and a shy heart. I missed her first eight birthdays, but her Ethiopian mom and dad were there to watch her grow at that time. Adoption makes your family bigger in so many ways, and I feel a special connection with her Ethiopian parents. I am honored to have the privilege of watching her ninth and tenth birthday and feel so blessed that she is my girl.
On February 16th Mita turned ten. There was no school that day and she had a couple of friends over for some fun. Grammy made her a Miley Cyrus cake (I cringed at the thought, but I have been told not to make everything a battle :)) She got a new BLUE digital camera/MP3 player. Blue is the best color in the world to my girls right now. No more pink and princesses for them :(
Happy belated birthday my Mita!
Photos by Mandy W.
Last Friday was my 34th birthday – yes I know I look much younger- and I had a great time! I went to a Women Of Faith conference in Cleveland. It was a great time with my sis-in-law, mom-in-law and several friends of my sis-in-law.
