Oh happy day! Oh happy Day! I got the email from the agency this morning! Xander and I were hugging and kissing and dancing around the room. Pretty exuberant response for a 7yo. She's still not "officially" ours though. Meaning that any paper ready family could get her still. They won't put her on hold till the homestudy is done. I'm hustling on that best I can. Yesterday I sent in the pre-application for AIAA. And my sister and BIL's info for the police clearance. We just need the medicals done now and we can get going on the homestudy interview. The homestudy agency is planning to rush it. I'd ideally like to get our dossier prepared and sent by the end of July. I know that's pushing it, but it's my plan. Then it's just the eternal wait for CARA to grant NOC. *sigh* part of me hopes we catch this whole thing in a smooth time. But I'm being realistic and know it could take much longer than 8 mos from this point. I dream of having her home for Christmas though. Thanks to everyone for your prayers! The Lord has surely been guiding us and will continue to guide us I am sure. We are witnessing mini-miracles right before our eyes!

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

In an uncorrupted woman the sexual impulse does not manifest itself at all, but only love; and this love is the natural impulse of a woman to satisfy a man.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

I like getting emails from people I know, makes me feel better every morning.

Awesome sentiment! I totally agree with you!

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A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.

It is thus clear that, just as some are by nature free, others are by nature slaves, and for these latter the condition of slavery is both beneficial and just.

As the brain changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted consciousness, one unbroken stream.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

If justice and righteousness perish, human life would no longer have any value in the world.

Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.