Treasured Pearls: He did it!

Ok, I know you're getting tired of me talking about TJ and races! I promise this is the last one for a while.

This morning, TJ and I got up VERY early (like 5:45am) to get ready and head out for today's race. This race is in the third series for our county and TJ needed to win/place in his age group to get the special award to be awarded in June.

This was a MUCH smaller race - less than 200 participants. Still there was a strong contingent of kids, mostly from a local Christian school with a strong running club. The course was very similar to the one we ran on Thursday. Through a neighborhood and back.

He did it! He placed 1st in his age group (by 3 min!) and 19th overall. He even bested his time from Thursday's race by 14 seconds!

He was a little disappointed, though, when he saw the "trophy". It was a lanyard with a card attached that said "1st Place Winner - Male 9-11 yrs old"

I'm hoping the special award is a nice one. I would hate for TJ to have put forth all this effort to receive a simple certificate. I'm proud of him nonetheless, but I sure hope he thinks it was worth it. I guess you'll have to check back in June to find out.

Orphan Statistics

Inter-country adoption has decreased 59 percent from its high in 2004, due primarily to restrictions by sending countries.
81.5 million Americans have considered adoption. If just 1 in 500 of these adults adopted, every waiting child would have a permanent family.
Every year more than 23,000 children age out of foster care, leaving them without families of their own.
The average waiting child is 7.5 years old.
Last year, nearly 9,000 children were adopted internationally
Of the estimated 238,280 children who exited foster care during 2013, the median amount of time spent in care was 21.8 months.
In 2013, California and Texas were the two U.S. states with the most children in public foster care waiting for adoption.
As of 2013, an estimated 17.7 million children worldwide had lost one or both parents to AIDS. Most of these children live in sub-Saharan Africa.
The births of nearly 230 million children under age 5 worldwide (about one in three) have never been recorded, depriving them of their right to a name and nationality
http://showhope.org/9-stats-about-the-orphan-crisis/

6 comments:

RamblingMother said...: No one should be tired of reading about his success and you should be very proud to report it. Way to go.; 3:56 PM
Thomsic Family said...: I would check about the award ahead of time and if it doesn't seem appropriate perhaps get a trophy by yourself; 5:31 PM
Thomsic Family said...: Oh by the way...GREAT JOB TJ; 5:31 PM
Unknown said...: Congratulations, TJ! Way to go! And you beat your personal best. Hooray!; 5:58 PM
Vicky said...: It has been great reading about TJ's success! Keep on posting. We love hearing about his success!; 8:24 AM
Leslie said...: WAY TO GO TJ!!!

That is awesome!!!; 12:15 PM

Saturday, March 17, 2012

He did it!

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