ROAD BUMPS

Our road to adoption has been so full of Joy, LOVE, challenges, heartaches, peace, frustrations, victories, happiness,and set backs. This week we had a small victory(Sissy's case) and a set back (Smileys case). Nothing major but at times my frustration levels sky rocket and I get tired of the little road bumps along the way. I have to remind myself of how sweet it is at the end of this long journey and that my beautiful family is just how the Lord wants it. I know he has a plan for each member of my family and a plan for us as a whole and that it is my job to trust him. We are so BLESSED to have these beautiful little people be a part of our lives. In court today the powers that be did not do there job and so it delays our making Smiley our forever boy just a little bit longer. I know it's just a delay but I just feel so much more secure when I know they are really ours!

Baby H is ours and tonight as I was thinking about the weeks events and watching her play in her big Sisters shoes, and what the future holds for her. What her future would have been if things had not gone the way we hoped and dreamed they would. I thought of all the hopes and dreams we have for our family. How I always wanted to be a Mother. Building our family through Foster care and adoption was certainly not how I pictured it, but as I look at each of my kids, my heart breaks to think of my life with out even one of them.

OH, and I cut off about 4-6 inches of hair. It was time!!!