Well, no travel approval yet, but it is coming! I can feel it! So tomorrow I am going to get the room ready for our Eliana. I will try to post a photo with her new bedding in the room she will share with Davie Anne. I keep buying clothes and stuff and I am really good at that. Spending money on my kids is my gift. :) We are getting ready for our baby girl and everytime I look at her little face I keep thinking, "wonder what she has that we need?", because that is how God works. Ellie doesn't just need us, we need her. I can't wait to meet her!
Our travelmates found out yesterday that they will not be able to adopt the little girl they were referred due to her recent diagnosis with cancer. Our travel group is all grieving, but hopeful for what lies ahead for this sweet family.
I have come to believe what a friend said to me today " life is more like a railroad track, rather than hills and valleys", the truth is that joy and sorrow are mixed together all along this journey. That is certainly what my life has been like for the last month or so. I am excited about all that God has for us and am so thankful that I do not travel this train track alone. He is with me every step of the way. I am so blessed.
Friday, March 2, 2007
Sunday, February 25, 2007
10 months old and big sister's birthdays
Yesterday Eliana Joy Lin was 10 months old! On her 10 month birthday we celebrated Davie Anne's 4th birthday, which is actually today, the 25th. We had a big celebration at Cypress Grove Park with lots of friends and beautiful weather. After that we headed to Deland to celebrate my grandmother's 90th birthday. Lots of fun and family there. Always a treat for me. I continue to experience a lot of sadness mixed with joy these days. One of my precious travel mates who was referred an adorable little girl from the same orphanage as Ellie found out 4 days after receiving the notice of her daughter in China that she has rectal cancer that has already spread to her lungs. My heart is so grieved over this. It just brings me to tears again and again. It is hard to be joyous that travel is coming, when that sweet lady won't be traveling with us. It also looks like we will be traveling to China to get Ellie(joy!) during the time of Sarah's debut as Catherine in the "Taming of the Shrew" up at school(sadness). Ugh! I can hardly stand it. I have never had to miss anything my kids have been a part of and yet this is totally out of my hands. Joy and sadness.....over and over again. This is an interesting time in my life. I don't remember a season like this one before. Intense joy and intense sadness. David's dad continues to hang on, though we so wish him Home. God is good all the time, and His ways are right. His timing is perfect.....in all this joy and sadness I do not question His sovereignty or His Holy character, but I do wonder how to process all that is happening and sometimes I just tell Him that this is too hard and too sad. Carrying sadness around as a part of myself and still feeling all the joy that God intends me to feel as He blesses my socks off is my calling these days. I am praying that I will do Him proud as I continue to surrender and trust in His unfailing love. What a journey!
Monday, February 19, 2007
care packages
Care packages....packages filled with care. Boxes filled with bits of things to show the receiver that they are cared for. Well, tomorrow I am finally going to send Eliana's care package to her. I say finally because getting a letter translated and printed into Chinese has been quite a feat. Getting the photographs and the translations for the photographs for her baby photo album was also difficult. Actually, nothing about this package has been easy, but now it is packed and ready to go tomorrow, because today is president's day. My prayer is that Eliana's orphanage director will receive this package, forward it to her foster family, that they will enjoy its contents and that they will begin to communicate to our little one about us and begin to believe that she is going to be well taken care of. Enclosed in the package is a letter thanking those who have taken care of Ellie and pledging our commitment to her. We also sent two disposable cameras hoping that they will take pictures of her in her home now and then give them to us when we get her. A care package of this magnitude can't really be delivered by the USPS, but we try to send our love and care knowing that the only time to really begin to live our love is when they place Eliana Joy Lin Wimberly in our arms. C'mon travel approval!!!!
Monday, February 12, 2007
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