Calvin, adopted at age 2, 1985
Jason, Juan, and Calvin, 1986
Mandy, age 1, with Calvin, 1989
Micah, adopted at age 5, (1991),
with Mandy, Calvin, and Jason in 1992
Christmas 1995, with all of us,
Mom, Jana, Micah, Calvin. Mandy, Tashayla, and Jason
Tashayla, age 2, 1993 with Mandy
Jana, adopted at age 7 weeks, 1995
I did not plant you, true.
But when the season is done,
when the alternate prayers for sun
and rain are counted,
when the pain of weeding
and the pride of watching you through,
then I will hold you high,
shining sheaves above the thousand
seeds grown tall.
Not my planting, but, by heaven,
my harvest,
my children.
~anon.~
Milton Morocho,unanimously
voted into the family in January 1999.
Ransung, arrived from Indonesia
January 16, 1998
