She's Here! She's Finally Here!

So this post is well overdue - that being an understatement! To sum up our journey of our 2 adoptions. As of now (August 2010), we are still waiting in China - and the wait will probably be another 3-4 years, unless we pursue a special needs child. We are open to whatever the Lord leads us too. Because His plan is the best!

Which leads me to the title of this blog... YES!! We have our little girl home (from the domestic adoption). This process went faster than we could have imagined. We thought this day would never come!

On that thought above - being open to wherever the Lord leads - Domestic adoption was one of those things for me. When we started the first adoption process, we went the international way - feeling led in that direction. Plus I had some reservations about a domestic adoption. But then the wait kept increasing for our little girl from China. In addition to the grief of the increasingly longer wait for our child, we felt like something wasn't right. This gentle nudge to keep looking. And so we did - into domestic adoption. And after the paperwork, fingerprints and all the stuff that we had done before, our profile was done in June 2009 and began being shown to birthmothers in August.

And then in June - 2 days after returning from our summer vacation - I got the call. We had been chosen. And the baby girl was already born, 6 weeks at the time. And we were going to get her and bring her home in FOUR days!

This process was, in adoption land, very fast. Our profile being chosen in under a year's time. And then getting our baby girl in under a week. Normally the profile is shown for about a year or two, then the adoptive parents have about 2 months to prepare. God knew when and how our baby was coming. I'm so glad that we listened - and that He didn't quit nudging us!

And about this blog. Since I'm a new mommy - and not really good at blogging consistently anyway - I'm going to try to keep up my "everyday" blog. I have had to keep them separate - for emotional reasons. But now everyday life is mommy stuff!!
So, please join me there!
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