friends of ours got home last night with their 2 children that they just adopted from the Congo!!!
their flight got in at 8:50 pm...so it was a late night for our crew...but worth it!
waiting.... {notice my bag - turquoise - sitting in the bottom right corner...story to come}
bailey made this precious sign. the family's last name is daniel.
they're here!!! a little boy about 4 and a little baby girl!!!!
the process for them was that an escort flew their kids to ohio from the Congo. so they left yesterday morning from VA to fly to OH. were handed their kids in the airport. and flew right back home!
lincoln's face in this picture is interesting...
see sawyer's little face there? we are 15 months out. and sometimes it seems like 2 days. as we were getting everyone's shoes on to get in the car to "go to the airport!" sawyer says (in his sweet, sweet voice): "can i come to africa with you this time? and lincoln can stay with grandma? i never saw africa!" the dude literally thought we were maybe leaving him?!? like, so calmly and right then! broke my heart to pieces. pat and i both assured him ( to the point where i think he thought we were nuts!) that we weren't going ANYWHERE and we HATED leaving him and blah blah blah. i think he and i will always have issues about that...leaving sawyer...it was so so hard (it was the right thing at the time, but so so hard!)
ok. back to the SWEETNESS!!! both of their kids slept the WHOLE flight! and continued to sleep as we all met them! they had been traveling for dozens of hours by this point!
some of the kids there...
and then THEIR kids arrived (they have 3 bio kids). their oldest and, now, youngest! the 2 girls!
and her baby....or used to be baby!
the Daniel family!!!
what a JOY to get to witness these moments!!!
{and i would by lying if i didn't admit to being SO thankful we are on month 15 and not day 1!}
but i'm HERE for you shelley!!! call anytime! ;-)
3 comments:
Your last comment was interesting.. about being happy about being in month 15. Right before you said that, I was feeling the two emotions of excitment for them but then then the dread and hope that they don't struggle as I have the past 4 months (depression). My stomach does little flips with the knowledge of what they're possibly in for. NOT to say at all that I regret anything... it's just hard, even when you've read, heard, and expected it to be hard... it's still hard. But SO worth it!
Thank you for sharing these pictures. I've been eating up Shelley's posts to FB!
One week in I was a mess, Juanita, but have found some flow and everyone is doing SO WELL right now! I know things can flip on a dime, but it is all worth it no matter what happens!
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