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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Hallelujah!! WE PASSED!!!
Pictures and details to follow! Thank you for the prayers and kind words of support throughout this process.
Davis Berhanu Bullington is now legally our son!!!!
Davis Berhanu Bullington is now legally our son!!!!
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
The adoption process: It's not so unlike pregnancy. . .
. . .in that there is a lot of eating involved in both. I haven't lost my waiting-for-referral weight and now I'm adding waiting-for-court-date weight. Wow.
Please pray for our family as we wait for what Faith calls "the meeting"-our court appointment - which will be taking place as we sleep (or don't sleep) Wednesday night.
Actually, to be more accurate, Faith calls it THE MEETING as in "Has THE MEETING happened yet?? I hope it is a GOOD MEETING!!"
She's an awesome big sister already.
Please pray for our family as we wait for what Faith calls "the meeting"-our court appointment - which will be taking place as we sleep (or don't sleep) Wednesday night.
Actually, to be more accurate, Faith calls it THE MEETING as in "Has THE MEETING happened yet?? I hope it is a GOOD MEETING!!"
She's an awesome big sister already.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
An Apology
I am so sorry that we have not written anything lately. It is partially because I've been frustrated by slow-computer-syndrome and using all of my meager processing capabilities to add and rearrange my photos on our dropshots site. We do have Easter pics there they are just on weird dates so you'll have to scroll through a bunch of days to see them all. Remember, you have to know what city we are in to view the photos, thanks to my rampant paranoia.
We'll be back again soon with a proper update.
We'll be back again soon with a proper update.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Good Friday
We have been busy painting at our house during the last few weeks - trying to get all of our projects done before baby gets here and rocks our world! So there has been little opportunity for me to hang out here. I did find the audio clue to match up with this blogpost of a few weeks ago and add it to our music box. So if you have your volume up, that is what you are enjoying (right?) now.
A tree near our house is decorated with eggs, and Faith is perpetually surprised to see it every time we ride by - "It is STILL EASTER!?" We've been coloring eggs and talking about Easter for weeks so she is a little lost in time. This is the first year I've had the privilege of sharing the good news of Easter with her and it has been amazing. She has a much greater understanding of who Jesus is and what He did and what that means than ever before. Of course, at three, she doesn't totally get it (or does she - she of the naturally child-like faith?) but she has been full of questions about Heaven and death lately and this has given us a lot of opportunities to share our faith with Faith. And when I am sharing it with her I am sharing it with myself over and over (and over some days) which I need, too. I can definitely use a daily, hourly reminder of how God so loved the world. And how He loves me. And how that means I should love.
We have done a lot with Easter eggs as a representation of life from death - an egg looks like a stone, which is a dead thing, but it contains a chick which is a live thing. Just as Jesus was dead, yet he conquered death and rose again. I read this somewhere, and I do think it has really helped Faith remember this fact. Though she does like to tease me and sometimes when I ask her why we color eggs she says, "Because of the Easter bunny" with a big sly grin. And she also likes to point out that our eggs just have more egg inside them and not chicks.
We don't talk much about the bunny. I don't really have anything to say about it. I don't want to share Easter attention with it, but I also don't want to make it a big deal, since it isn't. That is not really a struggle - the candy it brings on the other hand appears to steal attention from all other aspects of life. I long for the days when Faith thought candy was just something you held and played with by rattling it's wrapper or squishing it up. We managed to keep her from knowing that candy is for eating until her fourth Halloween! Now that candy is in season again she asks me repeatedly - some days from the very moment she opens her eyes - for "candy or a treat." I was telling my sister today that I hate being the candy police. Today, I thought I was going to have to restrict access after I allowed her to have a candy egg after lunch and then she brought another one into my room shortly thereafter. I said, "Faith, you can't have any more candy right now."
She looked at me sweet as pie and said, "I know. I was bringing this one so I could offer it to you." Yes, she said it just like that. haha. I think she really meant it, too, since she looked totally unconcerned when I took her up on it. So maybe candy teaches good lessons after all - generosity is a fruit of the spirit, right?
As far as adoption news goes - we are getting ready for our trip, looking at travel(!) itineraries, and just trying to steady our emotions daily. We got new pictures of him (which I can't share here for various reasons) and they are just so sweet. Our beautiful boy. I can't wait to see him and hold him and have him home.
OH, the towering feeling! . . .Just to know somehow you are near.
In time if not in space, little man.
A tree near our house is decorated with eggs, and Faith is perpetually surprised to see it every time we ride by - "It is STILL EASTER!?" We've been coloring eggs and talking about Easter for weeks so she is a little lost in time. This is the first year I've had the privilege of sharing the good news of Easter with her and it has been amazing. She has a much greater understanding of who Jesus is and what He did and what that means than ever before. Of course, at three, she doesn't totally get it (or does she - she of the naturally child-like faith?) but she has been full of questions about Heaven and death lately and this has given us a lot of opportunities to share our faith with Faith. And when I am sharing it with her I am sharing it with myself over and over (and over some days) which I need, too. I can definitely use a daily, hourly reminder of how God so loved the world. And how He loves me. And how that means I should love.
We have done a lot with Easter eggs as a representation of life from death - an egg looks like a stone, which is a dead thing, but it contains a chick which is a live thing. Just as Jesus was dead, yet he conquered death and rose again. I read this somewhere, and I do think it has really helped Faith remember this fact. Though she does like to tease me and sometimes when I ask her why we color eggs she says, "Because of the Easter bunny" with a big sly grin. And she also likes to point out that our eggs just have more egg inside them and not chicks.
We don't talk much about the bunny. I don't really have anything to say about it. I don't want to share Easter attention with it, but I also don't want to make it a big deal, since it isn't. That is not really a struggle - the candy it brings on the other hand appears to steal attention from all other aspects of life. I long for the days when Faith thought candy was just something you held and played with by rattling it's wrapper or squishing it up. We managed to keep her from knowing that candy is for eating until her fourth Halloween! Now that candy is in season again she asks me repeatedly - some days from the very moment she opens her eyes - for "candy or a treat." I was telling my sister today that I hate being the candy police. Today, I thought I was going to have to restrict access after I allowed her to have a candy egg after lunch and then she brought another one into my room shortly thereafter. I said, "Faith, you can't have any more candy right now."
She looked at me sweet as pie and said, "I know. I was bringing this one so I could offer it to you." Yes, she said it just like that. haha. I think she really meant it, too, since she looked totally unconcerned when I took her up on it. So maybe candy teaches good lessons after all - generosity is a fruit of the spirit, right?
As far as adoption news goes - we are getting ready for our trip, looking at travel(!) itineraries, and just trying to steady our emotions daily. We got new pictures of him (which I can't share here for various reasons) and they are just so sweet. Our beautiful boy. I can't wait to see him and hold him and have him home.
OH, the towering feeling! . . .Just to know somehow you are near.
In time if not in space, little man.
Friday, April 3, 2009
April Court Dates Bring May Travel
At least in our case. If we pass on April 30 we will go on May 23rd. I wish I had something clever or more meaningful to say about this, but actually all I can say is WOW!
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