The time is here.
Jonathon's adoptive parents are coming to bring him home to the US in just a few days.
It is good and wonderful and happy, but it is sad too.
Today was our last day as a family of five. Drew leaves for a 2-week business trip to Portland tomorrow morning. Drew and Jonathon will say their goodbyes at breakfast. In a few days I will take Jonathon to the state welfare institute orphanage, say goodbye, then he will be taken to meet his Mommy & Daddy.
It feels like grieving and rejoicing at the same time.
More than anything, we want to cover Jonathon in prayer that he will feel safe and loved as he changes hands. We are confident that he will immediately recognize and be comforted by the sensitive nurture of his new family.
How to mark our last day? It was a holiday, Dragon Boat Festival, Drew was home. We rode bikes to the lotus pond pagoda for a hot dog grill-out! By grill I mean tiny camp stove that looks just like a bunson burner. By hot dog I mean Taiwanese sausage. And it was perfect. Boys found blue bird egg shells, an abandoned fishing pole and a dead fish. They threw bricks in the water. In the evening we played basketball together at the university hoops and tested the playground at Titus & Michael's future elementary school. Really, it could not have been a better day together.
There is nothing left undone. Three years of fully embracing Jonathon, and now releasing him into safe arms and a beautiful life ahead.
counting the graces
thank you Father for
when Drew and I have the same sense of humor, and probably no one else would get the joke
Titus' bold, colorful, creative pictures drawn at preschool
all our needs met so perfectly -- job, home, schools, food, friends, fellowship
trudging home exhausted at noon, and the neighbors say, "come in here all of you, eat lunch at our house right now!"
Jonathon volunteering his sweet prayer at supper time
all the wonders you have done these three years! uncountable
cold showers before bed, it's hot, and air conditioning in the living room
a hug from Leslie
Rachel--I love how you worded it: "There is nothing left undone." Thinking of you guys.
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