tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703896623316825332.post7007414741616604654..comments2023-05-10T05:49:29.902-05:00Comments on Scraps by Nobody: You Must Be a Saint...You Must Be CrazyNobodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10069092362642089990noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703896623316825332.post-3104816259710439192007-09-26T23:48:00.000-05:002007-09-26T23:48:00.000-05:00My question is, how should we respond to those com...My question is, how should we respond to those comments? I never know what to say. If they say "you must be a saint", do I respond with "yes, I am, thanks" or "who me? Only through salvation!" Or if they say "You must be crazy" do I say "Yup, and loving every minute of it"? Normally I just make a strange half smile and stand there like an idiot.<BR/><BR/>Any suggestions?Jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18118452795959758596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703896623316825332.post-66028780392920960452007-09-23T20:38:00.000-05:002007-09-23T20:38:00.000-05:00I hear the same two comments and can't understand ...I hear the same two comments and can't understand it at all because my little guys are so cute and I am so UNsaintly. People just talk out of their ears. I like your suggestions.Andromeda Jazmonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12355192738014962965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703896623316825332.post-65730856158839124862007-09-23T19:56:00.000-05:002007-09-23T19:56:00.000-05:00I get the same thing when people find out we're fo...I get the same thing when people find out we're foster parents and adopting after all our girls are grown.<BR/>Your right, I am neither saint nor crazy (debateable on some days)<BR/>We are just a couple who UNexpectantly fell in love with a little boy who had no one who wanted him. And we provide food, shelter and love for those who need it for a little while. That makes neither a saint nor crazed person. <BR/>Just people trying to do what they think God wants them to do, for now.That's really all it is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703896623316825332.post-71770792909060819432007-09-23T12:50:00.000-05:002007-09-23T12:50:00.000-05:00Well I don't know anyone offline who's adopting so...Well I don't know anyone offline who's adopting so much as a kitten, so I'm not sure what I'd say, but probably my standard response to everything: "good times." Silence is golden, as they say. :)Mongoosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13545512692510569390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703896623316825332.post-83008697175417197342007-09-23T07:36:00.000-05:002007-09-23T07:36:00.000-05:00Followed you over from anti-racist parent, and I a...Followed you over from anti-racist parent, and I am so with you on this. We have 7 as well, our newest, but second oldest , so is from Haiti.<BR/><BR/>I just get so sick of these 2 comments.<BR/><BR/>I am enjoying reading through here, and your family is beautiful!Life in Fitzvillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01231490993681794580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703896623316825332.post-23738832386845612642007-09-20T13:09:00.000-05:002007-09-20T13:09:00.000-05:00That's a really good point A, and you can't imagin...That's a really good point A, and you can't imagine how many other poignant similarities I find along the way to this adoption of older children, and God's adoption of me as a "troubled older child". I certainly could have been considered hard to place.Nobodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10069092362642089990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703896623316825332.post-23130718176734419692007-09-20T13:02:00.000-05:002007-09-20T13:02:00.000-05:00I always knew you were a crazy saint and I am bles...I always knew you were a crazy saint and I am blessed to have you as a friend....now I am even more blessed for having met your newest family members. I can't help but thinking that someone breathed those words "are you crazy?" or "You ARE a saint" to my heavenly Father when he adopted me into his family...HA!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com