This last year has been filled with amazing blessings for our family. The spring semester allowed my husband to stop working in the restaurant world and work full time as a teacher. He was blessed with a great job and is seeing his passion come to fruition by impacting the lives of young people. We saw Jack turn one this year and have enjoyed watching him grow and change and learn every day. We've watched him learn to walk, talk, and his personality develop into a vibrant, hilarious, little boy. As usual, I got to travel this year to multiple international places for work. Since our family has grown, it has become more emotionally difficult for me to travel internationally. However, this year brought two amazing trips for me! In August I got to go to Italy and Paris with my sister, Sita. Never in a million years did I think this trip possible and it was so fun! It brought us so much closer and just makes me long to live near her family. In September I got to go to Japan with my Aunt Lynn. Again, never did I think this trip would happen but it was such a blessing to me and was a true emotional rejuvenation! I feel so blessed to have these women in my life and am over the moon to have had these experiences with them.
2012 allowed us many travels near and far, time with family and friends, some beautiful weddings of dear friends, new beautiful babies of dear friends, birthdays, anniversaries...overall a pretty amazing year of life.
With our adoption in 2012, we finalized our homestudy, received our immigration approval, and landed on the waiting list. We ended 2012 at #18 on the list and, given the current timelines, are hoping to see a referral between April and July. Four months seems so close but seven seems so far! We believe our little boy, James, was born in 2012 and we are praying we get to have him in our arms in 2013. We do not know what the future holds and we know there is a risk in every step of life, but this risk is well worth taking.
I hope and pray that by the time I write this post next year I get to tell you about our amazing trip to Uganda, and our beautiful family with our two little boys, Jack and James. But I only know for certain what is today, and I want to live each one as it comes. At the same time, I look forward to the future when our baby boy will be home and our family will be closer to completion. I am reminded of Hebrews 11:1 which says "Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see."
Hope your new year is filled with love, joy, and many blessings!
2012 allowed us many travels near and far, time with family and friends, some beautiful weddings of dear friends, new beautiful babies of dear friends, birthdays, anniversaries...overall a pretty amazing year of life.
With our adoption in 2012, we finalized our homestudy, received our immigration approval, and landed on the waiting list. We ended 2012 at #18 on the list and, given the current timelines, are hoping to see a referral between April and July. Four months seems so close but seven seems so far! We believe our little boy, James, was born in 2012 and we are praying we get to have him in our arms in 2013. We do not know what the future holds and we know there is a risk in every step of life, but this risk is well worth taking.
I hope and pray that by the time I write this post next year I get to tell you about our amazing trip to Uganda, and our beautiful family with our two little boys, Jack and James. But I only know for certain what is today, and I want to live each one as it comes. At the same time, I look forward to the future when our baby boy will be home and our family will be closer to completion. I am reminded of Hebrews 11:1 which says "Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see."
Hope your new year is filled with love, joy, and many blessings!
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