Well it’s definitely been a while since
I’ve been on to write a post! A lot has happened to our little family the last
past few months. As you probably know, Ryan and I became certified to
foster-to-adopt. We had our final certification walk through of the house on
September 30th and planned to wait (patiently?) for the two weeks
the county takes to file our license. Welp, God had other plans for us! We went
to dinner after our walk through and got a call from an LA County social worker
asking if we’d take a placement of a precious baby girl that was just born. We
prayed, talked for all of 5 seconds, and accepted the placement! Baby “A” came
to us 2 days later. What a whirlwind!
We had 2 beautiful weeks to “ease into
parenting” when we got another call for a placement. Actually, to clarify, we
had received 4 calls within the time “A” was placed with us until the phone
call I’m talking about now. For one reason or another we didn’t accept those
placements… until this call came. The road to accepting this placement was
long, tiring, emotional, and eventual, joyful. To shorten a long and still raw
story, Baby “J” came to our home exactly, to the day, one month after “A”
arrived. We could not feel more blessed to be loving on these babies. In the midst
of pain and brokenness we’ve experienced God’s grace in a whole new light. He
has taught us lessons we’d rather not have learned but blessed our hearts and
our family far more than we could have imagined.
This holiday season has been such a joy to
experience with these babies. Our home projects, housecleaning, yard work, and
pretty much anything and everything else we were doing prior to October 2nd
has taken a backseat and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Now going in to
Christmas we are truly experiencing joy in a whole new light! These babies have
changed our life and we are so incredibly thankful!
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