The other evening (Tuesday I think) I was in Panera with some friends. It had been a particularly difficult day and I spent time with God earlier in the day and asked Him to remind me to seek joy in simple things. To make His face more apparent since these days I'm having a hard time seeing it clearly.
I was deciding what to order when all of a sudden a little girl, about four years old, with a yellow jumper and purple glasses on stopped right in front of my with the biggest grin I'd seen in days. She looked up at me and said a very excited, "Hi!" I thought maybe she mistook me for someone else.
Turns out, she didn't. She was just super excited. I greeted her back with a smile (it was impossible not to) and she then held out her brand new fish. "See what I got?" her tone begging me to look at the bag in her hand, the smile, nearly as wide as the frames of her glasses.
"Oh, you got some fish, I see. Did you name them yet?" I asked her, trying to match the excitement in her voice.
"Yes," she responded without hesitation "they are Catherine and Lacey."
"Well that's wonderful. Enjoy them." With that her father kinda of moved her along, I smiled at him also and then at my friend who'd witnessed the whole thing.
It's been a while since I've been that happy to see a fish. Probably since I was her age.
Back in college, in 2004 when blogging was hardly even a thing yet, I was here. Blogging before blogging meant anything to anyone. You can look in the archives for my past writings, but it was much more like a journal in the past. When we started fundraising, I messed around with the idea of launching something new for this new phase of our journey but actually hated that idea. I am a sum of all of my life and so much of it is here already. So I'm keeping it here. At least for now.
My main focus these days is blogging about our newest journey into the bizarre and wonderful world of gestational surrogacy. Posts dated 2013 and forward will trend heavily toward that journey. I don't promise everything I write will be about though. There might be other things that sneak in occasionally.
Please come along our journey with us. As the saying goes, "The more, the merrier!"
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