[startedover]

.....your tire blows out and you look up and you are 50 feet from a tire shop.

[Mom-2-2]

...you are in a foreign country completely exhausted and overwhelmed and your newly adopted child hands you the New Testament from the hotel nightstand open to a verse about patience and caring for orphans. (James 1)

True story.

[Withay]

...you get an anonymous gift of $300 from someone in your church 'for the kids'.

[reetoreet]

...just when you are about to give up...you get a phone call that changes your whole life.

[emtb79]

...run out of gas right in front of the only house for 1/2 mile either way on a back road. And luckily it was a backyard wedding reception.

[KarenInCa]

...you hold your adopted child for the first time and it feels like Angels are present.

....you pray for a resolution and you get an answer within a couple of days.

....you pray for your adult son to find happiness and things start to work out for him.

[devildogwife]

When you're told that your 10-hour-old son coded and his heart stopped on the operating table, but that his surgeon got it restarted.

When you see your child crawl after months and months of being sedated on the ventilator.

When your child still smiles and laughs, despite having a tremendously rough beginning to life.

When you're able to truly appreciate the gift that each day is.

[ourdreamcametru]

....When you are not even looking and your child finds you!

[SupaModel]

When he makes the impossible possible!

When he gave me my baby boy exactly the way I prayed for.


When your living your dream life.

[Gwen72]

When after 7 years of infertility, 15 months of being jerked around by the homestudy agency, 3 months of being jerked around by an emom who just wanted the agency to pay all her bills but had no intention of placing her baby and finally giving up and giving all my baby stuff to a friend who had just had a baby......within 10 minutes of me giving all my stuff to my friend my son was born and his firstmother chose us to be his parents.

[Stormster]

Your 16 month old son pulls a 4 foot by 7 foot mirror down on top of himself, goes through it and lands on the huge pile of broken glass and not only survives it, but literally has only one tiny scratch ON HIS PINKY FINGER.

I'm not a religious girl but that was God right there.

[robandjulie]

Originally Posted by Stormster

Your 16 month old son pulls a 4 foot by 7 foot mirror down on top of himself, goes through it and lands on the huge pile of broken glass and not only survives it, but literally has only one tiny scratch ON HIS PINKY FINGER.

I'm not a religious girl but that was God right there.

My niece did this a few months around around 24 mos of age. Same thing--barely a scratch. Amazing.

...when DD won't share her toy with DS no matter how nicely he asks and DH reminds her that God wants us to share and she finally does and literally within 30 seconds of her agreeing to share afterall we find a different (much preferred by her) toy that we've been tearing the house apart trying to find for the last week.

[BethanyB]

When you have been through so much and question where God is and then at the right moment he comes in to save and comfort you.

[jalapeno]

When you get a call out of the blue that your daughter's birthmom just had another baby. And you've got to decide right away if you can take him. And your daughter is only 13 months old. And you're 5 months pregnant. And you're cranky and hormonal and the last thing you need right then is ANOTHER baby. And you decide to go get him because "someday" it may matter to your daughter. But you're not really thinking about the new baby. All he really means to you at that point is more sleepless nights and poopy diapers. And you feel horrible that you feel that way but there it is. And you go to pick him up and you're so distracted by getting him into the car and getting all of his things that you don't really even look at him until you've sat down beside him. And then you look. And he literally takes your breath away. Because in that instant you actually "recognize" him - and you know then that he's your son. Not your daughter's brother, but YOUR SON.

[startedover]

Keep them coming. THEY ARE ALL GREAT.

When your 2 1/2 year old took too long of a nap and gets in your bed in the middle of the night and strokes your hair thinking you are asleep and whispers "mommy, your my best girl and you always will be" and then a little later as she is getting out of bed she gently kisses your forhead and says "kitty's gotta go now" (that is a line that the monster in monster's inc tells the little girl "boo" when he has to leave her.