What a wonderful weekend.

Saturday the sun came back out to greet us. Yeah!!! We have been experiencing a little cold spell here in the PNW. It was getting down to freezing at night and that is not the norm for May. I have been itching to get my hands in the dirt and start planting and on Sat we started the process of weeding the vegetable garden.
Since we brought Alec and Haven home in Sept last year, I did not have time to properly winter the garden and it is a MESS! But we are making some progress in hopes of planting next week.

To top the day off on Saturday we went with friends to the Ethiopian Orphan Relief Chairty Auction. It was so much fun and everyone was so generous in their donations. In 10 minutes $19,000 was raised to feed 100 girls daily that live in a house EOR rents for them. These children have lost both their parents to the AIDS epidemic and have no one to care for them. This group of wonderful people that are some how connected to adopting from Ethiopia and helped make the Board's dream come true of surpassing last year's donations.

We bid on two lovely pictures that were drawn by children from Toukoul(the same orphanage our children come from). They are so sweet and I will be hanging them in the kid's room. It was a wonderful evening. Went to bed with smiles on our faces and a sense of peace knowing that we have helped orphans who have not found their forever family yet.

Then Sunday came, my first Mother's Day. This day meant so much to me. My sweet, sweet husband understood that and made it a big day for me. He woke up with the kiddos and let me sleep in a little. I was greeted by Alec and Haven with flowers and a card. And in that card was a gift certificate for a spa day. AHHHH I can feel the massage now:)))
After church we worked in the yard and played with the kids. Just enjoying being together as a family. My sister and her family came over for dinner, Thai (I didn't have to cook on Mom's day:) ).
Such a wonderful weekend and it was hard to see it end. But as the day did wind down, my head was filled with thoughts of my children's first Moms. Does Haven's Mom go to bed at night wondering about her life in the US? Does she worry that she is warm, fed, and loved? Does Alec's Mom know he is alive? Loved? Thriving? I am so thankful and humbled by how our children came to be our family.