November is a very special month in our house. It is Grace's birthday (she turned 6 on the 14th ) and it is also the month that we received our referral for Daniel (almost three years ago now. Where does the time go???). Granda Hayes also celebrates his birthday in November. Grace loves that they have the same birthday month.

Anyway, we had been home a few months with Grace when Mike said to me "she brings colour to my life" I thought it was quite a beautiful thing to say about our precious girl and I knew exactly what he meant. Looking back on life before Grace and Daniel is like black and white and colour only really came in when they arrived. I'm not trying to be melodramtic and say my life before them was all misery. It certinly wasn't. I've experienced many wonderful things - the Heiniken cup final in May 2006 springs immediately to mind:), but all of the previous joys in my life are nothing compared to the gift of these two children. I'm so conscious that others - including Grace & Daniel, have suffered terrible loss and how much I have benifited from that loss. I like to think that God saw two sad situations - Mike and I unable to have children and Grace and Daniel's parents unable to raise them, and decided in his wisom that we would all be a good fit for each other.