One Year Ago....

One year ago our family received the phone call that we had been waiting for- the phone call that would change our lives forever- the phone call that would forever change the life of a little girl. We had been waiting for this call for over 3 years, but I could not believe it when the phone rang and it was the lady at our agency asking me if we would like to look at a file for a little girl who needed a home. I was shaking all over and could barely speak- of course we wanted to look at her file!!! I waited for Mike to come home from work to open her pictures in the email that our agency sent, and together we sat down at the computer and got our first glimpse of our precious daughter.



This was the child that God had chosen for us, the child that God had put in our hearts, the child that we had been praying for. When we opened her medical files, we found that all of the information from before her heart surgery was missing and there was no record about her stay in the hospital. All we had were reports that were five months old- nothing current. We had our doctors look over the little bits of information that we had about her history, but in our hearts, we knew that she was our child and we could not wait to officially accept her as our daughter. It was a true leap of faith, but we knew what God had promised us when he told us years before that our daughter was in China with a heart defect. We found it truly amazing that our sweet little girl was born at the same time that God was urging us to change our adoption application to include a little girl with a heart defect.

It is so hard to imagine what our life would be like without her as I sit here on the couch typing this with my precious little girl curled up next to me reading her Elmo book in her ladybug pajamas smelling of sweet shampoo from her bath.