When Mel and I met, he had already been married twice, I know, I know not a good sign, but I knew with God's presence in our relationship we had as good of a chance at marital success as anyone else. We did have a few issues to deal with, though just like everyone else. One of the first issues we dealt with was the fact that Mel told me very early on that he could not stand cats. I told him that was a problem because I had two of them. I also had a pretty cool dog so I think that offset the issue of him not liking cats. By the way, he came to love them as much as I did. My oldest cat Butsy had an issue with Mel, however. Butsy was used to sleeping on the pillow at the top of the bed next to me. When we got married, Butsy would sit and stare at Mel every night as though saying who are you and what are you doing in my spot?
The most important issue we dealt with was having a baby. You see Mel already had two grown children, and as I said we were "wiser" (really translating to older) when we married I was 37 and Mel was 46, but he finally agreed to have "just one" baby. I got pregnant with Nicole in July 1998, you see we didn't have much time to waste, not with the old proverbial "biological clock" ticking. Nicole was born April 19, 1999. A few years later Mel and I decided we would like to have another baby. We thought that once our lives here on earth were done Nicole and "the baby" would have each other. Of course by now the old clock had been ticking another three years, but I thought well God did it for Sarah, and she was much older than I was. However the old ovaries were no longing making many eggs much less "good eggs". That was when we decided to do foster care to adopt, and God miraculously blessed us with Daniel on March 14, 2008, through the enormous gift of adoption. We all three were so beyond happy and grateful to God that out of all the people in the world wanting and longing to adopt a newborn baby that He chose us.
We were blessed.
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