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That is the number of days from the time we knew God was calling us to grow our family through adoption for a third time until our little Love Bug was born!
Or 3 years, 3 weeks, and 1 day! It is amazing to me to hear God's call and see Him work it out according to His plan and His time!
5 years and 5 days ago Handsome and I still had an empty house and were crying out to God to grow our family by adding a baby. A real, living child. Our Princess is 5 years and 4 days old, we had no idea she was coming until the day before she was born! Three months later the phone rings and our social worker wanted me at the hospital in 15 minutes to bring a baby home...that baby was our son, Sunshine! His adoption finalized on August 1st, 2008 and since August 2nd of that year we knew God wanted us to adopt at least one more time! There were many times it didn't seem possible, finanacially to undergo adoption again. But God had a plan, obviously! Last summer after a terrible situation with infant twin foster girls we knew it was time to start the adoption process and that God would lead us through. So we started, a month and a half later for some UNKNOWN reason I had the urge to buy a pregnancy test and it was positive...me, the one who wasn't suppose to ever ovulate again! We figured that the pregnancy would not be maintainable and our 5th precious angel would be going to Jesus' safe arms before we could meet him/her. We were wrong, our Cupcake would not go to be with her 4 sibilings in heaven, she would join our family via C-section on March 19th of this year. An now, our Love Bug was born on August 23rd...5 months and 4 days behind our Cupcake! As you can see in the above picture this Mama couldn't be happier!
Handsome and I were talking today, while life isn't full of tons of fun at the moment...it is a lot of rather hard work...it is a life we would not trade for anything! Princess is 5 years and 4 days....Sunshine is 4 days short of 3 months from turning 5. Cupcake is 28 weeks old and Love Bug is almost 6 weeks old already! God had a plan for us and even though we couldn't imagine adding to our family RIGHT.NOW, we do pray that God is not finished with our family. We would love to be blessed with another miracle as we both feel our family is not yet complete. God may have different plans, but for now I am enjoying the late nights (like tonight when Love Bug wants to smile and have eye contact with Mama) and all the diapers, meals, hours on the breast pump to provide all the milk for both babies, and everything that goes along with being a Mama to 2 preschoolers and 2 babies. I couldn't do it without my amazing Handsome, and with God's strength and guidance. His plan is amazing! You may say we are insane, but in reality we are just doing what we feel God lead us to do. We are blessed and forever thankful!
Praise the Lord!
Sincerely ~ Our Crew,
Handsome, Mama, Princess, Sunshine, Cupcake & Love Bug
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Amazing!
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