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Taproot issue 46 - December 2003
Presidents Corner
Happy Holidays! I hope that all of you have plans to attend TAP’s Christmas Party Saturday December 13th. For more details there is a flyer on the inside.
I just love this time of year. From Thanksgiving until the first of the following year is the best time for me. I love sitting around the table for Thanksgiving dinner with the whole family. We have a tradition of telling each other the things we are thankful for. The adults are always thankful for each other and how the Lord has blessed us. The kids are thankful for their new Iversons or winning the football game. I love Christmas because it is the day that we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I also love gift giving but since my youngest is now 16 it is not as much fun as it use to be. Now they all tell you what they want. I didn’t have to keep up with what brand names are now in and which one has fallen from grace. But, all in all, I still love it.
If you missed the conference that was hosted by TAP last month you missed something wonderful. The keynote speaker was Ruth Amerson she is the Executive Director of Another Choice of Black Children, the adoption and foster care agency in Charlotte, NC. She was great! She had us all laughing one minute and crying the next. She spoke on the number of black children that are waiting in the system and what we could do to help these children with the help of the Lord.
I would like to take the opportunity to thank a 61-year-old (I hope she does not mine me telling her age) young lady name Betty Lawrence. Betty attended the workshop that I did on Subsidy. I did not have enough of the Subsidized Permanent Legal Custodianship Bulletins to go around. She told me that she would have them copied and sent to me so that I could mail them out to the workshop attendees. I told her that TAP would send her a check for coping and postage. Betty REFUSED to let me send her a check. She said that this was something she wanted to do. I know it must have cost her close to $100 to have all those copies made and mailed to me. If you attended my workshop and you received a copy of the regulations in the mail. You can thank Betty Lawrence.
Please plan on attending our next parent support group meeting January 24 th at Montgomery County Community College from 12:00 until 3:00. If the weather is bad the meeting will be cancelled. See inside for list of topics.
Have a blessed and safe New Year!
Phyllis
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