I went from Cow to Queen in less than 24 hours.
Check out what I ate for breakfast…sorry, I know I’m being terribly cruel.
(And, that would be Lydia’s head in the bottom corner as she desperately tried to snag one before I snapped a picture.)
My too-sweet-for-words friend Jenna sent this to me to celebrate the anniversary of our crazy conversations back and forth, trying to find a little boy’s file who was waiting for his family, a little boy who became her son.
I remember that weekend so clearly. I had been emailing Jenna for a long time as we had both been waiting for our Chinese children for what seemed like forever (both of us starting our adoption journeys in 2007). By July 2010, I was home with Lydia with my arms and heart full. And, Jenna still waited. I saw on a yahoo group that some boys from New Day Foster Home were on the shared list and were waiting…and waiting. I clicked on some links and saw that one of the boys was a little heart baby boy they called “Evan.” And, I knew I needed to email Jenna.
The rest of the story is not mine to tell. But, you can go here to read more their decision to say yes to Cooper and here to read about their post-referral panic, a post that I think is a really good one for waiting families to read. And, just follow the links on the sidebar to read about their process in making him theirs, a process that was one of God directly speaking to them and guiding them. And, me? Jenna has given me way too much credit. Really, I just got to have a front row seat to watch what God was doing in this family to prepare them to parent the little boy He had had for them all along. And, it doesn’t get much better than that.
Jenna is hosting a giveaway right now; she’s fun like that. She gets to give stuff away; and she’s doing it this time in support of The Sparrow Fund and the refugee women we support in Kenya. Head on over to this post and enter to win one of two pieces of your choice from the Etsy store The Nest. And, give Jenna some love for me, Queen for the day.
Now, off to eat another strawberry.
