Fresh Start

Hi there awesome friends!   I have missed you!  I have missed blogging!    But I'm back with lots to chat about.   I hope you like my blog's new look.   I wanted a fresh start and I wanted to simplify my blog and my life!  I am smack in the middle of raising my amazing kiddos and everything is about family so I decided a great way to celebrate this stage in my life is to give my blog our Initial.   In our family we says Horrocks rock!  I am so thankful to be a Horrocks!

I wanted to share what I have been up to  the past few months.

I have been busy being a Mom, a Wife, Library Tech (I work in and out of my home for over a year now), Adoption Blogger for Forever Bound Adoption Agency and I just got called to serve in my church congregation as Young Women's 1st Counselor.   I get the awesome opportunities to work with my congregation's 14 and 15 year old girls.   They are sweet, fun and keep me laughing and teach me more than I ever imagined.   I have also been acting as a nurse to my little Spencer (who is now 5) but that story will be shared later.    Needless to say,  I am one busy woman,   but I love it!

Take a moment and peek at my blog posts over at Forever Bound.  I have had lots of fun creating them and I hope they are helpful to their readers!

Balancing two blogs.

Hi everyone!
Just wanted you to know I am still blogging but I am trying to find the balance between two blogs right now.   I am hoping to get good enough at the balance to still post here and keep up the Monday - Friday posts over at United For Adoption blog.   Please come visit me over there! 

 I would LOVE your support!

Where to go from here?

This blog began because I wanted to document the life of my sweet family.   It morphed into something else but was also still a record keeper for memories.   This blog has been my listening friend as I have passed through health scares, been frustrated by mothering woes, infertility issues, adoption heartaches and joys and was especially helpful as I faced handing over my foster baby after loving her and mothering her for her first 8 months of life.   This blog has brought me new friends, great support and a place to write my heart.   I love writing and I love my blog.  It isn't the most read blog on the net but it is my online home.   I have been pondering on where to go from here.    Brad was put in our ward Bishopric in June of this year and my life suddenly changed much more than I realized it would.   Finding time to blog is harder now....much harder.   But I don't want to close my blog either.   So for now I am still here....my blog is still alive just not as busy.   Facebook has provided me with a great outlet in writing a few sentences of what is happening in my life without taking lots of time from my responsibilities.   For now I will probably post more there than I will here but I will be posting here.   I hope it will be once a week.  That is my goal.  I want to remain active in writing and especially writing the comings and goings of our little family.   It seems that my blog is morphing again...it is taking a back seat to other things in my life.   For right now that is what is most needed and it is me choosing the best part.

I have had questions regarding Matching Mondays.   I was hoping to start it up again this month but that is clearly not happening.   I will start it again and hopefully soon.   But for now it is on hiatus.  I still love children and want to help those who are in need of a family but for right now my children need me and they come first.  I appreciate every one's understanding.   I miss doing Matching Mondays and I look forward to time when I can start it again.

Thank you for sticking with me. :) 

Call for exeriences, feelings regarding adoption/foster care blogs.

This picture has absolutely nothing to do with this post...but I wanted to add it because I love the freedom of being able to show whatever picture of Spencer I want.  LOL  The joys of being "legal".

I am still trying to take it easy with my hands...trying to avoid surgery so that is why I am a little MIA lately.   I miss blogging and reading blogs.  :(

Next month I am teaching a class about adoption and blogging.  I would love to hear from you if you have the one of the following:
1.  You have had a placement happen because a Birth Mother found your blog OR your blog played a role in the match.
2.  You blog about adoption or fostering and would be willing to email me with your experience and feelings regarding how blogging has helped you through the process or has given you added support etc.
3.   You have read other peoples adoption/foster blogs and it has helped you....I would love a write up about that.
4.   You use a blog to share your child's life with their Birth Family.   Why you do it and how you and the birth family feel about it.   Your feelings etc.

When I present a topic I love to share more experiences than just my own.  I hope you will be willing to share with me. cutefamilyof5 at gmail dot com
  Thank You!!!!

Brenda