Did you know that today is the International Day of Families? This annual celebration was inaugurated in 1994, the International Year of the Family, to enable local communities to highlight the importance of family life and the various ways in which families - birth, adoptive, foster, a combo of all three or some other combination - can be supported.

Proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1993, this annual observance reflects the importance the international community attaches to families regarding their situation around the world. The... more

Did you know there is a National Wedding month (no, not June – it's February), a National Prepare Your Home to Be Sold Month (April), a Shameless Promotion month (September) and a National Tie month (December)? There is a National Cowboy Poetry week (January), an Egg Salad week (April) and a Weird Contest week (August). But there is really only one day every year where we set aside time to focus on mom.

In church today, one of the people who spoke said this day is for all mothers – birth mothers, adoptive mothers and foster mothers, married mothers... more

Helen Keller said: “I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.” If you haven't heard the "Starfish Thrower" story yet, it's one of my favorites. It's SO easy to be overwhelmed by the beach littered with starfish I can't get to and can't make a difference for, but I can be reminded that it makes a difference to THAT one. And, adoption is something I can do.

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