Francis Marie Day



Jon and our Baby Girl!



Today is Francis Marie Day!   Seventeen years ago today Judge David Winslow in Tulsa County completed Frankie's adoption. At the point her adoption finalized Sissy's adoption she had already lived with us for three and half years.  When her adoption was finalized we had a huge party at the Owasso Church of Christ!  Great friends manned dozens of carnival games for all the kids.  We hired a magician who had Frankie act as his assistant.  There was a cake to serve 200 people made as a replica of her new birth certificate!  There were a ton of gifts for Sis to open, it was a celebration of  the creativity God used to put our family together!

Each year on Francis Marie Day, we do something to celebrate her special day!  Usually it involves cake, gifts, princess for a day and a special dinner.  This year she opened gifts then I took her for a manicure and to get her hair cut and curled. Later in the day we met up with Jon and the kids for dinner at Johnny Carino's Italian Restaurant.

On a side note, my Grandmother, Dad's mom, never had a middle name, only the first name Eunice.  And when Frankie went to pick her legal name, Sissy wanted 'Francis Eunice'.  My grandmother knew that was an old lady name and wanted to steer Frankie a different direction.  My Grandmother told Frankie that she always wished she had a middle name.  And she always wanted the name "Marie", in fact she even signed her marriage certificate as Eunice Marie even though it wasn't her legal name.   A year after Frankie's adoption, my Grandmother went thru the legal process to have her name changed to Eunice Marie.  So while she was living the two of them would celebrate their Francis Marie and Eunice Marie Day together!

He has made everything beautiful in its time.

He has also set eternity in the human heart;

yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

Ecclesiastes 3:11