Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Conversation with a First Grader

Over the past couple weeks I have began to tell my students a little more about us adopting a baby from Africa. One student in particular loves to ask questions about it and talk about it. He always tells me that he wants to have a brother from Africa, but I don't think his mom is on board with that. I love to see a 1st grader have a heart to adopt though!

This was our conversation the other day:
N: Is that Africa? (I had another families adoption shirt on)
ME: Yes, how did you know?
N: It has animals on it.
ME: Yeah, this is a shirt from another family that is adopting a baby from Africa too. I will be going to Africa soon to bring my baby home.
N: Why?
ME: They don't have a mommy or daddy, so Mr. Mowen and I will get to be their mommy and daddy.
N: You mean they are orphans?
ME: Yes, how do you know what orphans are?
N: I watch All Dogs Go to Heaven, duh. The girl and the dogs are orphans, they don't have a family or food. can we write a story about that??
ME: Absolutely! (I usually have to ask him to write something, and today he offered)
Here's what he wrote...
I can't get the picture to rotate, but you can see it was still a cute story!

2 comments:

  1. That is about the sweetest thing I have read this morning! What a sweet boy! God has placed a desire in his heart! When I was a young girl, everyone would ask where I wanted to go if I could go anywhere, I would say: Africa. My family couldn't understand why in the world I would want to go there. 30+ years later they all knew why, because my baby was from there!!!

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  2. AWWWWWW........isn't this a SWEET SWEET story! Thanks for sharing, as it blesses my evening to read it! Such a precious soul. Just think! You will be getting "The Call" SOON, my friend! Can't WAIT for that post!!!! Blessings~

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