Please let me introduce you to my new little friend, Beta. She is like sunshine on a spring morning, where you really want to stay in the warmth and soak it all in. She has a smile that can warm up a room, and a laugh that is lusty and loud. She calls me "Solomon" because that was how she heard it the first time we met.....I hope she never alters it. She loves little dogs, scrambled eggs, taco dinners, "Annie" the Musical, Babar the elephant, Dora the Explorer, and Hello Kitty. Beta loves the color purple, pronouncing it "pwoo-pel". We both like bugs, and guinea pigs, and tiny frogs.
Beta arrived in America four days after the earthquake in Haiti. The timing of her arrival, and the beautiful place that she has in her family makes Providence as glorious as it gets here on this earth. In this photo she is holding her family's house sign.....ssoooooo happy to have a family, and a MOM and a DAD, and brothers and a sister. The whole thing reeks of gratitude....her gratitude in receiving all of the stuff that adoption has given her.....security, purpose. happy days and plans for more, the comfort of love and the comfort of care, care that won't end today or be spread thin at the orphanage. Beta makes me think differently about all kinds of things that I am certain I take for granted.
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