A Beautiful Chaos!

In July our sweet little referral turned one.  Normally birthday's are happy days which celebrates life and accomplishments.  For our sweet girl this celebration will also include sadness.  It is the day that God brought our sweet girl into the world, but it is also a day filled with loss.  There is a birth mama who remembers the precious details of this special day.  This could also be the day that her Ethiopian mama begins to question if she will be able to raise her.  The could be the day she makes the painful and unselfish decision to not raise this beautiful baby.  So much loss and pain, but also great joy that God brought this sweet girl into our broken world for a purpose.  She is wanted, she is loved by two mama's, two daddies, by two families.      




Her birthday was such a sad day for us.  It meant that baby brown eyes has been living in an orphanage for a year.  It meant that she has gone an entire year without a mama to rock to her, sisters to sing to her, a daddy to feed her, a family to show her love.  An entire year, but she was not alone.  God was there.  He kept her safe.  




At the beginning of August we learned that our two Dossier's were successful (back in March we compiled an entire new Dossier since all of our original paperwork was over two years old)!  We passed MOWA (Ministry of Women and Children's Affair)!!  This is what we have been praying for!  MOWA was the one thing that was standing in our way from obtaining a court date!  Our sweet girl's paperwork passed in February stating she meets eligibility for adoption, and now our paperwork has passed!!  The next step is meeting our sweet little one and attending court!  If court approves us, she will officially be our little girl!  She will officially have a family with three big sisters who cannot wait to show her love!




Passing this milestone, I have finally allowed myself to get excited about bringing her home!  I have allowed myself to prepare and to purchase necessary items that she will need.  The hardest hurdle is behind us, so we feel that it is safe to talk to our children about her and about what it will mean to them when she is home!  There could still be twists in the road, unfortunately things can still happen.  However, I have finally allow myself to prepare & dream.  I am ready for that beautiful face to be ours, and for her to be home!  


 

Because of this new & exciting development, our home has turned into a beautiful chaos!  We are in full swing of our second year of home school (we are beginning our eighth week)! We loved it so  much last year that we decided to do it again!  I love being able to give our girls individual attention as they learn, and I love how their friendship (and patience) with each other has grown!  While we are homeschooling, we are also getting ready to take a week off to enjoy the beach with family, while also getting things ready to meet (and potentially bring home) our sweet brown eyed Ethiopian!   Completing school, planning trips, organizing rooms (for a crib!), buying toddler items...oh my!  It is sweet chaos here, and we are loving every minute of it!   

We love the beach!!