I am a small town farm girl from upstate NY.  After being born in Florida, I was adopted at the age of 2 & moved to upstate NY where I would grow up to graduate from High School & attend College.  As a child we moved around quite a bit, on average I stayed in a school 2-3 yrs & then we would move on.  While growing up in NY for the first 13 yrs I grew up on a farm until I was moved into foster care where I would stay until graduating from high school & heading off to college.  While attending college in NY I was dating a man whose sister lived in VA & that would lead me to move to VA a few yrs later.  See the first yr we were together we went to VA to visit his sister & I told him right then & there I loved the area so much that regardless of what happened with us I was moving.  So after attending college for two yrs & having to be on crutches for 3 months in the middle of the brutal cold winter of my senior yr of college I decided I was leaving, which I did right after graduation, with no place to live, & no job, knowing only this guy (& we had split months before), I moved down to VA.  

Upon my arrival to VA I moved in with my ex from college & found a job & started to build a life for myself here, but a yr later we decided to move to GA.  This move lasted just shy of a yr, only to return to VA because we hated GA the entire time we were there so we moved back to VA & I have been here since.  

I love this video because it really hits home with the way that many adoptees like me feel.

Kellie Pickler Breaks Down in Tears During CMA’s Performance - VIDEO

Kellie Pickler broke down crying during the CMA Awards on Wednesday November 7^th, 2007 night while performing “I Wonder,” a song about her estranged mother, who abandoned her when she was 2. “Oh, I hear the weather’s nice in California ,” the former American Idol finalist sang at the end of the song, as the tears began to fall down her cheeks. “And just in case you’re wondering about me/ From now on I won’t be in Pickler’s mother, Cynthia Malone, has said that she was forced to leave her child because of an abusive relationship with her then-husband. “I knew God had to have a purpose for [Kellie] because there was too many times I would have miscarried because of all the hitting and beating on my stomach,” Malone told the Charlotte Observer in July.

August's Flower Gladiolus Botanical name : Gladiolus Meaning : Splendid Beauty

The name "Gladiolus" is derived from the Latin word "gladius", meaning "sword", for the shape of its leaves. An ancient name for the gladiolus was "xiphium," from the Greek word "xiphos", also meaning sword. 

The gladiolus flower is the birth flower for August; it also represented the Roman gladiators. Before the African gladioli became popular in the West, the Mediterranean and British gladiolus flowers were used to treat physical ailments. The English used the gladiolus flower's stem base (corms) as a poultice and for drawing out thorns and splinters; powdered corms mixed with goat's milk was commonly used to soothe the symptoms of colic.