Good morning Zuri...

It is like a gift that you keep opening over and over again. Each morning, when we are downstairs eating breakfast with the older kids getting ready for school we wait and listen for the monitor. Sometimes, there is an argument over who will go and get her, but usually Leia walks down the steps with her. Zuri greets each of us with a big smile. All of us give her the warmest greeting and she even comes to us and gives morning hugs sometimes. Five adoring faces to greet her each morning. As the kids were fighting over who would hold her this morning I was left with awe. Here we are in my own home watching my kids argue over giving this child attention and love. Oh, how I wish that every orphan could experience this kind of love and affection. Adoption is surely making a difference with our little starfish and as Boe said this morning: "I just can't imagine life without Zuri...we would be so bored."