We had the pleasure of welcoming a beautiful little girl named Liya to Texas on Saturday night. Liya's mom is my awesome friend Kim. Kim and her husband also have a little boy they brought home from Ethiopia over a year ago and grown kids to boot! It was wonderful to be part of Liya's homecoming.
Hmm, what does my car loaded down with groceries have to do with our adoption? All of those groceries were bought with a gift card from our secret grocery angel! About every other month a gift card arrives in the mail and we use it to buy groceries and then put our grocery money towards the adoption. We have no idea who is sending us the cards!
All the way to the grocery store Laine was trying to guess who had been sending the cards. She asked me if it was possible that God was sending them. (You know I loved hearing that question!) I told her that God was definitely moving someone's heart in a special way for them to support us like this.
We may never know who has been sending the cards but I hope they can feel my prayers of thanks and know how touched we are.
I am happy to report that with our latest deposit we have all of the money we need to write that last big check to our agency! We are now saving up for our travel expenses. Plane tickets can be as much as $2,500 per person (times 4 plus the one way for Gayle) so I have my work cut out for me.
At this time each month I anxiously await the phone call or email from our caseworker letting us know what our official wait list number is. Even though most of our agency's families are on a message board and keep an unofficial list it is always exciting to get confirmation that our unofficial number is our official number.
Last month we were #9. We know one family got a referral and that moved us up to #8. Then a few days ago a family ahead of us shared that they were being called to adopt a specific child with another agency and were leaving our agency. So I giddily walked around the house saying we were lucky #7.
Then today we got our official number for June and it is . . .
Doesn't that look suspiciously like the #9???
My belief is that the family that is leaving our agency is not officially off the list. So why aren't we #8? My belief on that is that there was a family added to the front of the girls list. This can happen if a family is on the boys or siblings list and they decide to change their parameters to include a girl. They will be added to the wait list based on the day they initially got on the lists.
Despite the surprise I am too happy to let this little number snafu get me down. We will get the child we are meant to have and all my numbers crunching doesn't really amount to much. Plus I am super happy for my friend Kim and her husband as they are preparing to leave for Ethiopia for their second trip and will be bringing their new daughter home the night before Father's Day. Can you imagine a better Father's Day gift than that? We will even get a chance to welcome them home at the airport!
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