My days have been a blur. I wanted to write and share just a glimpse of what a day can hold in the life of one adopting. Journey back with me to Thursday September 20, 2012.
My day started as normal with our daily Bible time followed by chores and breakfast. Shortly after we closed our last book and finished our school day, my husband flew through the door with a hand full of newspapers. We had been waiting to see the paper which featured Caleb and his iRun story on the front page. We were shocked that the story covered the whole front page. It was an amazing story...a treasure to behold.
Excitement flowed through from my my veins as I went out for a run. It is one of my favorite times of the day. It is a sacred time where I exercise, release stress, and pray to the Father. Upon finishing, I carried my sweaty body through the door. My daughter handed me the phone with that urgent tone in her voice. It was the other newspaper in our area. They wanted to feature Caleb in their paper as well the next day and needed to get a picture of him running in the next hour.
Not a problem except for the fact that he was at his uncle's house making a stain glass garden stone to auction off at our Worship Night fund raiser. I quickly called Bryan to pick Caleb up and jumped into the shower while the girls threw the mounds of laundry we had been working on into the bedrooms so the newspaper guy would be able to sit on our couch and not on piles of underwear.
I had just dressed my body when a knock came to the door. As the little people ran to let the picture guy into our house, I got a text from our birth mother. I wanted with all that was within me to read the text for I don't get to communicate with her often. I suppressed my desire to read the message and greeted our guest.
The man instructed us to go outside and get pictures of Caleb running with us watching at the end of the driveway. Really? Why did one have take a picture of our whole family. I had wet hair, Drew had just woke from a nap, Hosanna didn't even match, and Libby looked like she hadn't combed her hair all day....or maybe even all week. Everyone would wonder why I should be able to adopt if I could even comb my children's hair or put them into matching clothes. AHHH!
The picture guy had not even gotten into his car when I sprinted to my phone and read the text. Our birth mother had gone to the doctor and wanted to let us know that everything was great with the baby! She also wanted to inform us that the doctors were planning the c-section for 4 weeks out. She thought that it would be around October 18. What? Seriously? This was earlier than we were told. Even more excitement ran through our house.
Just as the news of she earlier arrive was beginning to set in, the phone rang. It was news that the local radio station was doing an interview with one of the families we are fund raising with. They would air the interview on Friday to announce our Adopt Together Worship Night. This would allow even more exposure for our funding needs as well as the need for others to adopt and help children in need of a forever home.
Having no time to prepare dinner, we inhaled a pizza. I don't not eat pizza unless it is homemade, but I didn't even care. I eat the crude and focused my energy on all that the Lord was doing.
Due to all of the fund raising we had been doing, I had not been to the grocery for two weeks. This is a huge deal for a family with 6 children. Bryan decided that he would take the little people while I ran to get food to put into the fridge. As I was preparing to leave, Courtnie, our Arizona friend who lives only 15 minutes from the hospital our little sweetie is to be born at, called to check in. We talked about the new details and she once again reminded me that her family would do anything we needed while we were in Arizona picking up our new addition. This is yet another detail that the Lord has taken care of for us. Who gets to adopt and have friend that lives within minutes of the hospital? These are friends who we trust to watch our other children so we can be at the hospital as a couple! Amazing.
After completing my grocery trip and putting everything away, I received an email from the agency. The director wrote that we should have a c-section date with in the week. They just needed the hospital to confirm at date and time. Wow! My body was still in adrenaline mode. I looked at the clock that read 10:00, but so much of me felt as if it was 2:00 in the morning. If breathing wasn't automatic, I would forget. If you see me, please remind me to breath!
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