Whew. It has been just over a year since Selah Skye's adoption in Nov. of 2013.
Happy New Year and Happy every-day-New-Day! I am thankful for new beginnings and need one to five every day.
In 2013, Selah got a good grasp of English and began learning many new things, one being, how to get along with a big sister.
The process has included variables of the good, the bad and the ugly and I have aged significantly...
When the day is done though, and I see these sisters living life side by side, I am very happy that they have one another.
It is our second year at a K-8 elementary school where I work and the girls attend 5th and 8th grade. Selah is in band and just performed in her first band concert as a flute player.
Academically, she has a lot of catching up to do as we now realize that she attended school infrequently in China. She is trying and has the ability and desire to learn.
Gloria went to the state spelling bee last year and is preparing for this year's bee. She is an algebra whiz and on the school's academic team, which placed second in the state at their last competition.
We are very proud of their accomplishments!
Life has not stopped a beat since we got off of the plane from China, so the blog got shelved. Even the summer was busy with the girl's activities, my summer art teaching job and a girl getaway with my mom and sister (very necessary:)
Adopting an older child is challenging. But you have to believe it was meant to be if it happens that you do this.
My dad, who passed away just months before Selah arrived home, was a horseman. Selah is more infatuated with horses that any child I have known.
Ask anyone who is around her on a day to day basis and they can tell you what she loves....horses.
She recently shared a story of a time in China when she got her hand crushed in the hinge of a large door. When I was 7 the same thing happened to me at a
JC Penny retail store. These are just a couple of specks of common threads we have discovered.
Bonding can be slow sometimes but keeping God in view makes one's perspective bright and hopeful:)
