Things I Will Love About You ...

1. I will love all your heart has been through ...
2. I will love your beautiful skin color ...
3. I will love that you have survived unimaginable circumstances...
4. I will love your sweet smile and your sad frown ...
5. I will love you till the end of time ...
6. I will love your sweet hands ...
7. I will love how you show your personality in a giggle or a cry...
8. I will love Ethiopia your birth country ...
9. I will love your birth parents ...
10. I will love how you change us as a family ...

I will love you because I am your mommy !!!!

A Typical Saturday ...

It has been a nice day filled w/ lunch w/ Nana, your brothers and sisters playing together, and dinner w/ friends, but my mind has wondered all day to you ... I have days when I try to focus and I definitely enjoy the blessings of the day, but part of my heart is thinking of you and wondering when you will come home, if you are born yet and if you are then what are you doing ...

I love you sweet angels ... I pray you feel God's strong presence around tonight ...

love, Mom

Crazy Day ...

We had a busy day and I always think of you as we are busying doing life and receiving blessings from the Lord ... I have no idea whether you are even born yet, but I do know you live in my heart ... God has been so faithful to guide me daily and give me the strength I need each day .... I will teach you all about the loving Father when you get home, but I suspect that you can feel His presence ... I love you sweet angels ...

Joseph, I have named you my STRENGTH .... I know you will bring so much strength to our family just by your presence ...

Abagail, I have named you my PEACE ... I feel that you will bring me to that point in my life where I will feel God say, "Well done faithful servant." ... You will help me show peace to others just by how you look at them ....

Praying for you each day !!!!

Good Morning Sweet Angels ...

(This is a picture of children from your country ... Those sweet faces make me smile...)

I feel so fortunate that God has placed you in my heart so early in this journey ... I pray for your country, I pray for you biological family, I pray for your safety, and I pray for your health ... I pray you will know my voice the day you meet me in person ... I pray you will feel my touch and know you are home here on earth ... I can't wait to share w/ you about the LOVE of the heavenly Father... Blessings today my sweet Abagail and Joseph ...

TODAY I START

To my sweet angels in Ethiopia ... I decided to start a journal to you and share w/you how my heart already feels you, how I feel you are already part of our family, and how God is leading our family to the great country of Ethiopia to find you.

PSALM 139:13-16

13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.

14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.

15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

16 your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.

I LOVE YOU SWEET ANGELS !!!!