{"id":5315,"date":"2011-05-19T17:54:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T00:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=5315"},"modified":"2011-05-19T17:54:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T00:54:28","slug":"today-i-have-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=5315","title":{"rendered":"Today, I have hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been reading my blog for awhile, you will know that our family was created via adoption. \u00c2\u00a0All four of our children were adopted at different times but are indeed a sibling group. \u00c2\u00a0This is significant because this means that all four had very similar lives in the womb and upon birth. \u00c2\u00a0We are still learning about what their birth mother&#8217;s choices means to them.<\/p>\n<p>We are learning about Fetal Alcohol Exposure and it&#8217;s affects. \u00c2\u00a0We are learning about autism, oppositional defiance disorder,\u00c2\u00a0dyslexia, OCD, development delays, and so much more.<\/p>\n<p>There are days where just living with those things means that there isn&#8217;t enough energy to do much more than fall into bed and pray that tomorrow is different. Those days it&#8217;s easy to feel hopeless.<\/p>\n<p>Then there are days like today &#8211; when someone hears you and gives you a few more things to try and you start to believe we will indeed make it another day, week, month, year.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I have hope.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=5315\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><div class=\"pinterest_button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fosbornz.net%2Famy%2F%3Fp%3D5315&#038;media=http%3A%2F%2Fosbornz.net%2Famy%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F10%2Fcropped-poppy-150x150.jpg&#038;description=Today%2C%20I%20have%20hope\" data-pin-do=\"buttonPin\" data-pin-config=\"beside\"><img src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/pidgets\/pinit_fg_en_rect_gray_20.png\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=5315\" data-text=\"Today, I have hope\" data-via=\"Knitnmom\" >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a class=\"tumblr-share-button\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/share\" data-title=\"Today, I have hope\" data-content=\"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=5315\" title=\"Share on Tumblr\"data-posttype=\"link\">Share on Tumblr<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button\" href=\"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=5315\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\" ><span>Print<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>More<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;width:150px;\"><ul style=\"background-image:none;\"><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Today%2C%20I%20have%20hope&body=http%3A%2F%2Fosbornz.net%2Famy%2F%3Fp%3D5315&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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