Harris Family

Peter and I met back in 1995 in Berwick Maine. Peter moved into the building that I was living in not to long after I did. I knew when I saw him that this was a man that I wanted to get to know. His demeanor was calm and mysterious. Not to mention that he was very very hansome  we were together for a little over a year when I chose to destroy the relationship. Its really the only way that I can put it. I sorta lost my head for a bit.  One marriage, one divorce and one baby on the way later I moved to Manchester Maine to live with my mom and dad, bless their souls they put up with me for almost five months. I was not doing well mentally, I really needed help finding myslef again. I had lost site of everything in my life. Well not really everything, the thing I never lost site of was that I loved Peter and that I had really fudged things up for a wonderful future. I was extremely depressed.  

     Peter came to visit me once at my mom and dad's and when he did he decided that he wanted to take me home...to his home. He said that he loved me and would forgive everything I had done. He just wanted me back baby and all. I had never been shown such love in all my life. On February 20th of 1998 our little girl Della Jeanette was born. We named her after Ray Harris Sr.'s mother Della Harris. She also has my grandmothers middle name. She was a sweet lil bundle of joy. She was very sick, her liver was not functioning well. We were able to take her home after a few days in the hospital but a week later we were right back there   After another week's stay she was doing well enough to come home. Della's first night home she screamed in her daddy's face all night! But Peter was so patient he just held her ALL night! I was feeling very sad those first few weeks regretting everything I had done to bring her into the world.  I think forgiving yourself for things you have done is the hardest thing to do.  Things were rocky for us, but we made it through.  When Della was 10 months old we found out that we would be having another baby!  April 4, 1999 Peter and I tied the knot I was the happiest and luckiest woman alive! October 7, 1999 our new baby girl was born Halen Orion. Halen was we thought going to be a boy so we had planned to name her after my first foster dad Galen Morrison. However surprise surprise a baby girl was born!  So we went with Halen. Orion was for the stars because the night that she came the stars were amazingly bright in the sky.  She was the spitting image of Peter's mom Harriet. She was so beautiful, she loved to snuggle right from the start and slept most of the time.  Five days after Halen was born we were in a court room in Dover, New Hampshire filing for Della's adoption so that she could become an offical Harris.  That is our story:)  April 2006 we celebrated our 8th aniversary. I can not lie and say that it has been an easy road but we are well and we love eachother very very much. The girls are bigger now and we are still looking for the off switch on the growth chart!  We are a homeschooling family. The lord has blessed us with a wonderful family.

     We bought our very first home October 30, 2006 and we are coming up on our 1 year aniversary here pretty soon. We are very very blessed  Thank you for stopping by our site hope that you enjoy it. Please come back as I update it monthly.  Please sign our guest book and tell us what you think!

        Thanks The Harris Family

        Peter, Tanya, Della, Halen

        Our Pets ~ Venus, Millie, Izzy & a fish called Wanda:)