This is a cool find in the "lost files" of our computer. This was written just before we adopted Isaac, (*little did we know, he was just a few days from being born!) COOL!
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Merry Christmas to family and friends everywhere!
It has been a couple of years since we did an informative Christmas letter, so I have decided to embark on the task for the last year of the century!
We moved from California in April of this year, to Bryan Texas. The Navy is sending Mike to graduate school. He is getting his master’s degree in Ocean Engineering and has already been accepted to the Navy’s Dive School program. Mike will graduate in December 2000 and we will be moving again. Dive School is held in Panama City, Florida, but we are not sure yet if that will immediately follow graduation.
I have been taking a class this semester too. I am taking, (and struggling with,) French. I hope to be able to give Michael a head start in another language. It is a beneficial skill to have, and French is also the official language of Haiti, the country of his birth. I am also staying busy with the normal activities of being the mother of a toddler, and the wife of a student. I am active in our church’s choir and also involved in the Women’s Ministry Team. Last but not least, I am trying to keep up with all the many crafts that I enjoy.
As for Michael; he was two in July and we love this age tremendously! He has the funniest personality and it is so awesome to watch him learn and explore. His favorite thing in the world is STILL trains, but he also enjoys construction vehicles and “Hot Wheels” in general. He and daddy are big “book reading buddies” and they spend Friday afternoons together while I am in class. He enjoys Happy Meals and the local children’s museum. He does say a few words in French and recognizes most letters in the alphabet.
As a general overview, we are enjoying Texas. We are a little closer (in distance) to our relatives and spent most of the summer with them in Alabama. The summers here are just a ‘tad’ warmer than California, and that first electric bill was a little shocking! But it is nice for Michael to be able to play outside so often and I personally despise snow! *Except on a Christmas letter of course! We also decided to adopt another baby while living in Texas. Our paperwork is finally finished and we have been approved. So, the waiting process begins. This adoption is quite different from Michael’s adoption. We are doing a domestic adoption, and we ask for your prayers. There are many different issues to consider and we will be required to have some contact with the baby’s birth mother. We don’t have a time frame to give you, but we are hoping for spring. We know that God has a perfect baby for us! We just have to be patient and wait for Him to work a miracle, just as He did with Michael.
I shall close for this year with a few words in French.
joyeux Noël and bonne année!
(That’s Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!)
Love,
M3
Mike, Melda and Michael
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Merry Christmas to family and friends everywhere!
It has been a couple of years since we did an informative Christmas letter, so I have decided to embark on the task for the last year of the century!
We moved from California in April of this year, to Bryan Texas. The Navy is sending Mike to graduate school. He is getting his master’s degree in Ocean Engineering and has already been accepted to the Navy’s Dive School program. Mike will graduate in December 2000 and we will be moving again. Dive School is held in Panama City, Florida, but we are not sure yet if that will immediately follow graduation.
I have been taking a class this semester too. I am taking, (and struggling with,) French. I hope to be able to give Michael a head start in another language. It is a beneficial skill to have, and French is also the official language of Haiti, the country of his birth. I am also staying busy with the normal activities of being the mother of a toddler, and the wife of a student. I am active in our church’s choir and also involved in the Women’s Ministry Team. Last but not least, I am trying to keep up with all the many crafts that I enjoy.
As for Michael; he was two in July and we love this age tremendously! He has the funniest personality and it is so awesome to watch him learn and explore. His favorite thing in the world is STILL trains, but he also enjoys construction vehicles and “Hot Wheels” in general. He and daddy are big “book reading buddies” and they spend Friday afternoons together while I am in class. He enjoys Happy Meals and the local children’s museum. He does say a few words in French and recognizes most letters in the alphabet.
As a general overview, we are enjoying Texas. We are a little closer (in distance) to our relatives and spent most of the summer with them in Alabama. The summers here are just a ‘tad’ warmer than California, and that first electric bill was a little shocking! But it is nice for Michael to be able to play outside so often and I personally despise snow! *Except on a Christmas letter of course! We also decided to adopt another baby while living in Texas. Our paperwork is finally finished and we have been approved. So, the waiting process begins. This adoption is quite different from Michael’s adoption. We are doing a domestic adoption, and we ask for your prayers. There are many different issues to consider and we will be required to have some contact with the baby’s birth mother. We don’t have a time frame to give you, but we are hoping for spring. We know that God has a perfect baby for us! We just have to be patient and wait for Him to work a miracle, just as He did with Michael.
I shall close for this year with a few words in French.
joyeux Noël and bonne année!
(That’s Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!)
Love,
M3
Mike, Melda and Michael
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