I know it has simply been forever since I have posted, but another day just couldn't go by with out recording my thoughts. We had a whirlwind of blessing from March 25, to April 8. First March 25th we celebrated Ben turning 2 years old, He is a typical 2 year old full of sweet kisses and lots of temper tantrums :) Only a mother of a two year old will understand why this is a sweet combination. April 2nd was Ben's gotcha day, It was 1 year ago on that day when full of nerves we went to the orphanage and held the most precious gift God could have ever placed in our arms. We are truly blessed. Of course April 8 is when Ben met his brother and sister for the very first time. All I can say about the past year is we are VERY VERY tired but very very much smitten. Ben had us at Hello ha ha, No seriously though he is our light! He makes every single day brighter.
Our Adoption was finalized last December and with it we received a piece of paper telling us what we already knew. Ben is now an "official" part of our family. But like I said we already knew that. God had a plan for Ben from the very first moment of time. I'm humbled that part of that plan was a little quiet family from a small town in Ohio. When God was weaving Ben together in his birth mothers womb he started calling to my heart. A deep deep calling so that when I first layed eyes on my son, our hearts cried out to each other "there you are I've been waiting"
As I look back on the last three years to when we started our adoption to today at this very moment, I can honestly say that God had to have been holding us in the palm of his hand. Every single step in our adoption has his palm prints all over it. There is no possible way in mine or Jason's own strength that we could have orchestrated such and awesome and amazing experience. Oh don't get me wrong we had definitely had our down periods just as well as the high ones. But I'm talking about when you step back and actually see the whole picture. The way every piece was woven and spun together just perfect to get us to the point we are. God is so awesome, I just stand in awe that he loves us that much! WOW.
