Today has been a good day in the adoption realm. It makes the rough days of the past couple months totally worth it. We have been waiting to hear the news that our baby will for sure be part of our family forever. And today we got that news. By this time next week everything should be totally secure for our adoption. Florida law says that we have to have the children in our home for three months before we can actually go to court and officially adopt any child. But after next week it will just be a waiting game with no risk attached. For that, we are truly thankful! By September we should have our court date and be able to change our baby's last name to ours - so that he too will have all the rights, responsibilities and privileges of a child born to us.
This week has been a bit easier for me. I have come to accept the changes in our household and try to embrace them. Austin is doing so much better. We still have the normal (or maybe abnormal, I'm not sure) growing pains of a child adjusting to a sibling. But for the most part he is learning to love and appreciate his brother. I was watching them play together today and I just felt pure joy knowing that God has blessed us so tremendously with wonderful, beautiful children.
As my husband so aptly put... "I can't help but sense the significance of Jeremiah's name. He's been through so much in his young life, and- while Laura Kreitler and I are by no means perfect- it's so exciting to be a part of God's grace toward him... to replace evil and fear with peace, hope, and a future."
The things our children have been through just makes my heart break. And I am so happy that we have been blessed by God to be the ones to shape them for eternity, to point them to Jesus, and show them the Way to have eternal life. What a blessing!
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