We are praying for you

On Sunday we received this sweet picture from one of my primary girls.  Her dad explained that she watched our video and then drew this all by her self.  She gave it to me and the tears started flowing.  What a sweet little girl, I love the baby in the picture.  What a great reminder that young and old are praying for us.  Young and old are rooting for us.  Young and old are excited for us.  We cannot wait to frame it and display it in the nursery. 

One Week

One week doesn't seem like much time at all but it is amazing what can happen in 7 days.  Last Sunday morning we finished our adoption video and posted it online.  That is when our life became a complete open book and we were hopeful adoptive parents to everyone we knew.  The response was more than we had imagined it would be and our life has been blessed by the great people who we know and love.  We thought the video would be a fun way to let everyone know we were adopting and they could share it with their friends.  Instead the video has changed the whole course of action we took for the whole week.  Instead of simply posting the video online and forgetting about it, we got busy and have done little this week that wasn't adoption preparation.  We even happened to meet a little family at Mary Poppins that had adopted their little girl.  We are ever so grateful for the response we have received.  We know we have said thank you before but for the kindness we have received it just never seems to be enough.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

What a wonderful evening last night was! Cache surprised me with dinner and tickets to Mary Poppins! I can honestly say that was the most wonderful broadway I have ever seen!

Paper Pregnant

Dear friends of ours: Bob, Lindsay and Hudson are adopting a little girl from Ethiopia, she writes on her blog here, and a wonderful website here that features a new family a week. Also, check out her video, here. She was definitely inspiration for our video and helped us out a lot.  She wrote a wonderful article on being paper pregnant. 


We have been “expecting a child” for over a week now. What a wonderful opportunity it is to know this.  There are many differences to expecting a child through adoption and expecting a child through pregnancy.   Lindsay writes so perfectly about being paper pregnant, so I will share her words with you.


"Pregnancy is physically challenging; adoption is emotionally challenging. When you’re pregnant, every month brings a new physical ailment. Morning sickness is followed by the foreign feeling of belly kicks, then your back hurts, and you never can seem to get a good night’s sleep, etc. But each new ailment is reassurance that you’re making progress, and soon your child will be here.


Also, you can’t miss your growing belly, and everyone can see that you’re expecting a baby. Being paper pregnant, no one looks at you adoringly and says, “When are you due?” If you’re shopping for baby stuff at Target, people probably assume you’re buying a shower gift.


When you’re pregnant, you know to a certain degree when your baby will be in your arms at last. Based on this timeline, you know when to start decorating the nursery. You know your deadline for finishing the parenting and birthing books.


Being paper pregnant, none of this is possible. There’s no sonogram to tell you how far along you are and how many more weeks you have left. Even if you wanted to know, you might not know the gender until your referral. Taking prenatal vitamins won’t do your baby any good."

It would be foolish to not look at the other side of the adoption process. A mother out there that is actually pregnant who feels those foreign belly kicks, their back is hurting, morning sickness has ran its course, and is making the difficult decision of what to do for her baby. She does not have the opportunity to raise that child, but rather give them a better life.