WNC Foster/Adopt Fall Festival in Asheville

Tomorrow I have the honor of participating in the WNC Foster/Adopt Fall Festival at the Asheville Chamber of Commerce.

November is National Adoption Awareness Month and tomorrow, Novmember 14th, is the Annual Fall Festival from 3-5 pm!

Please join me, HeartMommy, The Heart Gallery of WNC and many other agencies as we share the need of many children. Children in foster care who are ready to be adopted into forever families are waiting.

We will be there as their advocates and their voice!
Please come and support the children.

Thank you,
Nancy
HeartMommy To Garrett
The Heart Gallery of WNC/Asheville

Happy Days and Life

GMan on Valentines Day
Originally uploaded by HeartMommy

November is National Adoption Awareness Month!

Each year there are ceremonies and events held in November to celebrate the joys of adoption. My son is adopted and he is my heart and soul.

Everyday we have a choice to be happy. Look at this little boy and you can see the joy in his face. The joy of childhood and pure love. This is certainly one of my favorite photos of my son.

Today, I allowed myself to get mired down in the negativity of another person. They have chosen to be negative and unkind. After being a part of their experience, I decided to step back. I purposely went to my photo collection to get back into my own Happy Day.

I wrote a poem to express what it is that I have in mind for my life. Enjoy.

Life
a flicker
a flame
so fleeting
this game
the time that is wasted
never again tasted
less bitter and anger
best spent on sweeter
riper
and wondrous things

Creamsicle and the Rebound

As a child, I have vivid memories of things. Often of little significance and yet they have stayed with me. Growing up in Florida included a lot of hot days. We were usually in our bare feet running around, playing in the sprinkler to stay cool and if we were lucky the ice cream truck would come around.

We would scamper to the truck and carefully review all the choices, only to pick the same thing everytime. Mine, a creamsicle. It is like a popsicle, but is made with orange and vanilla ice cream. The joy of the creamsicle!! No matter what deviations I may have taken at certain points, there was always the rebound- the creamsicle.

Life is like that in some ways.

We are happily living our lives and then something exciting happens. We scamper about and rush to see what is offered. More of something we love and less of things we do not want. At times we deviate from what we know we love and try something entirely new. It is lovely and we are happy, for a time.

But, when that truck of life changes comes again, we will most often go back to our original choices. Creamsicle and the Rebound. It is what we know.

Not Vanilla or plain Chocolate for me, thanks. I prefer the perfect imbalance of the creamsicle.