waiting for a miracle

so much excitement on here! congrats to all!!! yay!

beautiful. congratulations, baby boys are perfect

congrats to the two new families!!! Very exciting, sweet, and tender times. I send my prayers for the new families! Lori

Good Beautiful Morning!!! Yay Andy and Jill! I am so happy for you, and so thankful for your patience. What a road you've been on! oxoxo Lori

yay Mark & Erin, and Ric and Teresa!!! love and happiness to all of you!

yay! caongradulations to the steadmans! amen!

For more on this subject and the public response to it in Dallas, click here. I just read this, then went to the link, and it is loaded with this kind of anger. I'm speechless, tears welling up as I read and look down at the beautiful baby boy sleeping in my arms that I will love for an eternity. so tiny and perfect...I pray his first mother, bill, and I are able to ward off these feelings. the part that hit home is that as an infertile woman, there is a lot of guilt in taking a perfect child from a woman and causing her pain....even if she feels it "is best" as she puts it. these writings re-lit the feelings of terror that i am profiting at someones loss....which I am....but because I was asked too. although I prayed for it...

YAY!!!!! oh I am so happy for this family, so happy!!!

Hello and WELCOME! I am so happy your family and Max's found eachother! Happy to hear from you, and again, welcome to abrazo!

Beautiful story! AMEN, and congrats!

I think everyone questions what this is supposed to look like. The chicks will send you some samples at some point. The colors are as you wish, the seriousness is as you wish, make it personal. The person who picks yours out of the pile will love it because of your touch. good luck and welcome! Lori

what a beautiful new family! hugs!

I know, here it comes and YAY! I absolutely love Lent- Easter is my FAVORITE holiday. Yes, Christmas is a Holy Blessing, and I Love it, yet Easter is such an exclamation that our Lord loves us! I LOVE this time of year. As for recipes-I am anxious to see any sweet recipes any of you have. We generally eat seafood on fridays....nothing really called a "Lenten favorite" Maine seems to have plenty of options in the seafood department I make a great baked stuffed haddock with maine crabmeat, and scallop casserole, and haddock florentine...how about that one? this is not rocket science, I normally just eyeball things in the kitchen. fresh haddock if possible, it's so yummy, but if not, frozen at sea is pretty darn yummy too. thaw a package of frozen chopped spinach and drain it-really squeeze the fluids out. add finely chopped red onion, hmmm about a half a medium red onion-more if you love onions like me add a few cloves of garlic-pressed add ricotta, about 4-5 oz add 1/2 package of shredded mozzarella, or mozzarella/provalone mix add1/4-1/2 cup of grated parm (just enough to keep spinach stuffing from being too watery-you should be able to make mounds without puddles) mix this well, it should look 50%cheesy and 50% spinachy (hee hee) about a handful of spinach mix in the bottom of foil lined 8x11 pan top each "mound" with a piece of haddock place a nice slice of tomato on each "stuffed" fillet, than top them all with remainder of shredded cheese. Bake them at 400 for about 20-25 min. yummy yummy this is so yummy that the fasting part feels funny, so I tend to eat fruit, or something wicked small for lunch and skip breakfast all together.... oxoLori

I think the question is probably for just what Andrea says...don't give the turtle away!!! We have a dog, and you just have to make sure that it's safe-you know, vaccinations. I know it can be nervewracking trying to line up all the ducks...there are no stupid questions, or feelings, here!! Lori

Congrats to the newest family! love and prayers for all.