My chickens love her...

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wanda047

wanda047

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10 Years
Mar 26, 2009
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Hardy, Arkansas
I just had to share these photos. This is Sara... my daughter and my best friend.

Everyone of my 70 chickens love her. Do you think that if I kiss all my chickens they'd love me too?
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Sara is the only person I have ever known to actually be diagnosed with cat-scratch fever! She had it last year and was deathly ill. My husband banned her from kissing her cats anymore.
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When my husband saw these photos, his response was, "Now she'll have some chicken disease."
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keep her sweet!!

Let me share a little story about this beautiful, sweet young lady...

Sara Kate was 4 years old when she came to live with me. she stuttered so badly that we could not understand anything she said. She was a very sad little girl and never smiled. I don't think she knew how. She had lived a life that many of us only hear about on TV or read about in the papers.

I took her to the circus that first weekend. She never smiled, not even once. I was heart broken.

Several weeks after she came to live with me, I took her fishing. she liked that and even insisted on putting her own worm on the hook. She didn't mind getting slimed by the worm. she'd just wipe her dirty little hands off on her shirt and keep on fishing. She wanted to fish with my spinning rod so I taught her how to use it. Remember.. she was only 4!

One day while driving to town, I heard a little voice in the back seat singing, "Because He lives, I can face tomorrow..." She never missed a beat...and she wasn't stuttering. Tears were streaming down my face.

She started smiling... very slowly and shyly at first. And then one day she woke up and didn't stutter any more. I can't describe how I felt that day. Four years later, I asked this little lady if she'd be my daughter and we started the adoption process. Before going to the court house, I sat her down and told her it wasn't too late to change her mind. Her response was, "I don't ever want to be hungry again." That statement changed my life forever, literally!

I look at this little girl every day and think about how lucky I am to have her. There are so many children just like her out there who need a home. I have since adopted two more. I can't imagine my life without them in it. I'm now 51 years old. My youngest is 2 (my oldest 32!) and I'd love to adopt one more. I'm not rich. we get along by the seat of our pants. We struggle from paycheck to paycheck. But I am so blessed.

I wish others could experience what I have with these children. Arkansas has over 400 children waiting to be adopted. It's so sad. My husband once said, "We can't save the whole world, but we can make a difference... once child at a time."

I'll get off my hickory stump now and shut up. Didn't mean to write a book. But for those of you who read this... thanks for allowing me to share a very special success story with you. Sara's a fighter and a survivor. She will succeed in no matter what she attempts in life. She has a beautiful spirit and I'm so lucky she's mine.​
 

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