Weekend to Support Adoption!

Doing the work that I do and hoping to become an adoptive parent one day, I often come across neat and fun things going on in the community to help support adoption.  This weekend is full of  lots of adoption fun!  Check it out:

The Utah Foster Care Foundation Chalk Art Festival 2010 is this weekend at the Gateway in Downtown Salt Lake City.  Friday June 18th 4pm- 9pm and Saturday June 19th 10am- 9pm.  For more information visit the link: http://www.chalkartfestival.org/

And of course you can't go wrong with this one!  I am told it's nationwide, so spread the word!!!

Looking for another easy way to support adoption this weekend? Buy a Frosty at Wendy's! Fifty cents from every Frosty purchase Saturday or Sunday will go to the Dave Thomas Foundation for adoption.

 

Words to Live By

At the end of May we had to update all our info with our adoption agency.  At that time I realized that it has been 6 months since we were approved.  It's been a long and bumpy road and I'm sure there are more bumps ahead.  On the front of our church program there is always a quote printed from one of the general authorities from the church.  They are usually nice quotes and words to live by, but the one printed this last Sunday jumped out at me and I just wanted to share.

"Patience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears.  Patience means active waiting and enduring.  It means staying with something and doing all that we can- working, hoping, and exercising faith; bearing hardship with fortitude, even when the desires or our hearts are delayed.  Patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well."

-Pres. Dieter F. Uchtdorf