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With our little\u00a0Georgianna home from The Congo now, the most common question I\u00a0am asked these days is, “How is it going?”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Well, pull up a chair –\u00a0I will\u00a0tell you.<\/p>\n Do you remember the feeling you had when your\u00a0child\u00a0looked\u00a0into your eyes\u00a0and said \u00a0“Mommy”\u00a0\u00a0for the first time?<\/em><\/p>\n Or watching your child experience\u00a0their first snow?<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0The first time you bathed your child?\u00a0 How you were so worried that you’d do something wrong?<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n The day your “big girl” learned to ride a bike?<\/em><\/p>\n When you daughter received her first real baby doll, do you remember how she clung to it?<\/em><\/p>\n I know you do.\u00a0 As mothers, those memories are not written on our hearts – they are etched into our souls.<\/em><\/p>\n Now imagine all those joyful\u00a0moments happening in the same week.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n That’s what happening in my house!<\/p>\n \u00a0Our little Georgianna is having each of these experiences\u00a0crammed into mere\u00a0days\u00a0right before\u00a0my eyes<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0And without wanting to sound too\u00a0pompous or cheesy, I have to admit to all of\u00a0you that it is just incredibly special to watch as a mother. \u00a0 It’s as if this little princess from Heaven has\u00a0magically appeared into our family and has seamlessly knit herself forever into our hearts.\u00a0 Vienna and Georgianna are already best friends.\u00a0 They\u00a0love to wear matching clothes and\u00a0the argument of who will wear the plastic play high heels doesn’t seem like it will end any time soon.\u00a0\u00a0Big Brother and Little Brother haven’t skipped a beat.\u00a0 They all love their new sister and she loves them.\u00a0\u00a0 I had no blooming idea that it would be this way.\u00a0 \u00a0God knew.\u00a0 I didn’t…but I probably\u00a0should have.\u00a0\u00a0When each of my children have entered into my home for the first time, a quite peace has lingered for months.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It’s this odd phenomena that can only be explained as a feeling that our family is more whole than it was before.\u00a0\u00a0 I am not saying it’s perfect, we’ve had to implement a few corner times and I’m getting less\u00a0sleep, \u00a0but it’s perfect…if you know what I<\/em> mean<\/em>.\u00a0 I would equate it to a new mother who is\u00a0so\u00a0thrilled to have her newborn that she really doesn’t notice the sleep deprivation.\u00a0\u00a0She\u00a0jumps out of bed at\u00a0the mere wimper of her child. \u00a0It’s perfect. The baby is perfect.\u00a0 Yes, there\u00a0are minor\u00a0adjustments, but nothing one can justify complaining about!<\/p>\n I’ll be honest, I worried.\u00a0 I\u00a0didn’t see\u00a0myself\u00a0 adopting a child who was four years old.\u00a0 I love babies.\u00a0 Vienna and Boston were both adopted at birth.\u00a0\u00a0 We adopted Ethan at 12 months, but I had found him in Uganda\u00a0as a preemie\u00a0and was with him through much of the process.\u00a0 Everyone told me this and that about adopting a child who was older.\u00a0 I worried.\u00a0 But when I looked at the little photo I was given of Georgianna, my heart spoke to me.\u00a0\u00a0 Mr. Lewis and I have\u00a0a feeling when a child is meant to be ours and we try to follow it.\u00a0\u00a0When I looked at her photo, my heart quited and was at peace.\u00a0 It hasn’t been the easiest past year for my family,\u00a0 deciding to adopt now wasn’t necessarily optimal, but when you know when something is right – you do it.\u00a0 When you know your\u00a0daughter is waiting for you, you\u00a0go get her.\u00a0 When you are pregnant unexpectedly, you still have your baby.\u00a0 You forget about the timing, the money, the family planning, what all your relatives are saying – and you go\u00a0get her.\u00a0\u00a0And we did.\u00a0 Oh, how happy I am that we did!<\/p>\n I believe the\u00a0singular thing people\u00a0innocently forget to\u00a0tell others\u00a0about adoption is how incredibly wonderful it is<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0When I mention that my children are adopted to people,\u00a0a common response is, “That must have been\u00a0hard<\/em>.” \u00a0And I want to shake them and say, “Yeah, but so is pregnancy and we all end up with the same thing – a beautiful child!”\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Adoption is\u00a0 just as miraculous as child birth, just as difficult, just as easy, and just as life-changing.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I share this thought\u00a0from experience.\u00a0 As you know, I\u00a0have four children\u00a0 and they\u00a0all\u00a0happen to be\u00a0adopted.\u00a0 One adoption was incredibly difficult, three were so easy I am bit embarrassed.\u00a0\u00a0 We have had failed adoptions that were not fun.\u00a0 Two of my children we adopted internationally, two domestically.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0There are\u00a0difficult adoptions and easy adoptions.\u00a0\u00a0Just as there are\u00a0easy pregnancies and difficult pregnancies.\u00a0 But the end result is the same, a beautiful child who is %100 yours.<\/p>\n So how I am doing?\u00a0 Wonderful.\u00a0 A little less sleep than usual, but wonderful.<\/p>\n Blog\u00a0more soon,<\/p>\n
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