The past couple of
weeks have been a whirlwind in our home (as you can only imagine). My mind has been going non-stop with
planning, dreaming, wondering, questioning, imagining and praying about
everything you can imagine and then praying for things that I haven’t thought
of yet!! I want this whole process to be
covered in prayer! But this process
isn’t about me! This journey is for our
whole family and I thought I would share how our whole family is a part of this
journey.
On the day we got
the call, I immediately called Todd and then drove to the school to sign the
kids out of school. Is that crazy? Yes!
Is this a life changing day?
Absolutely!! I didn’t want to
tell anyone without telling them first!
I told them we were coming home to have a ‘fun lunch’ and then told them
when we got home. Ashley burst into
tears with the news and jumped into my lap and Travis just jumped all over the
room! He was so excited and didn’t know
what to do with his energy! He jumped
and cried together! We had such a fun
time celebrating and praying together.
Within a few days
we had pictures enlarged and placed around the house. The kids have been a big part of helping us
choose a name for our son. We were not
going to change the name of an older child but with him being younger it is
something we are considering. We all
like the same name (yeah….it’s a God-thing!!)
We love the meaning and we think it is fitting for him. It has been fun to have the kids be a part of
this process.
Almost
immediately, Travis announced that he was sharing a bedroom with his little
brother! We had talked prior to getting
our referral that we were unsure about how to rearrange bedrooms. We have an extra bedroom but thought that
sharing might make the transition easier for a kiddo used to being around a lot
of other little ones. We wanted to find
out their age/gender before making that decision. As soon as we found out, Travis was
determined they were sharing and is already talking about their new room. It’s so sweet! I’m so ready to start getting the room ready
just because we are all so excited!!
Tonight just broke
my heart…..I am on a facebook private group of people adopting from the same
orphanage. Someone posted a picture of
our little guy from when they went to visit their son a couple of months ago. When she tagged me in the picture other
people started commenting also. We were
reading the comments at dinner tonight. The one comment said that even though
we couldn’t see his shirt it actually said “I Love My Daddy”. The one woman said that his eyes are very
captivating and she loved looking at him each day. It was at that point that little Travis
started crying. He sweetly said “I miss
him and I want him home”. It was a hard
dinner tonight with all of us ending up in tears. Ashley is as tender (if not more so) than Travis
but often doesn’t share her thoughts as openly as Travis does. She just quietly weeps when upset…..like
tonight. We talked about how amazing it
is that God can knit hearts together when we haven’t even met yet.
Praying that God
will continue to knit all of our hearts together and safeguard them through the
rest of this process. It isn’t easy on
anyone….especially the little ones.
Thank you for your
support through this journey, for loving us and for loving our children through
this too! So many people came to find us
on Sunday to ‘meet’ our little guy (even coming to find me in the nursery)….it
was awesome to feel so loved and supported!
The kids told us how many people spoke to them and gave them hugs too
(even when we weren’t around)….Thank you!
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| Here's a picture we took of the kids at their school Christmas program a couple of weeks ago. Love them so! |
