School Days!

Well, I have almost survived the day that I thought would be the end for me. My oldest boy started High School and my baby girl went to school.

We dropped Jacob off at school first. Jake is attending Cornerstone Christian Academy, a private school that he has attended since 4 years of age. So, it was not as traumatic taking him to the same place he has been going to for years. The familiar helped this mama a lot. He looked so big going into the building. I thought of him 10 years ago when I dropped him off for the first time and I pulled around the corner and sobbed and called my mom! Funny how after ten years of first days for him I still felt like doing the same thing today. My sweet hubby came with me today. I don't think he held the same sentiments about the day as I did, but he was aware that his wife would be in great need of moral support or a 911 call today.

After we dropped Jacob off Libi extremely vocal in the back. I could tell she was trying to communicate something. I thought that she just wanted a drink. It wasn't long before we realized that she needed the restroom. We stopped at a gas station and cleaned her up and I was praising God for the extra pair of bloomers in her diaper bag that worked just fine with her "first day of school outfit".

When we got to Libi's school and I pulled her out of her seat, I locked my arms around her and sobbed. I told Brad I didn't think I could do it. He reassured me, and we put her in her chair and wheeled her up to the teachers and other children. Needless to say, it was a long good-bye. I had to get her out of her chair just one more time and then we left.

I felt like I couldn't breathe! My hubby helped get myself pulled together. So thankful for him!
I came home and got busy with my "to do" list. It was a very productive 2 hours and then I FLEW out the door to get my girl.

Libi had a great day today. She was very excited when I picked her up. She had so much to tell me. Her teacher said her favorite thing today was pushing the cars and trucks. I was hoping for something more "girly". It sounds crazy, but I felt like she already changed and grew up so much in just this one day. I cannot imagine what the Lord is going to do in her this school year.

Thank you to all my dear friends who supported me with texts and prayers today. You are more than a blessing in my life!

Tupperware Girl

Libi Playing in Tupperware for the first time

Can I tell you how many times I was aggravated by the mess of Tupperware strewn about my kitchen? Well, I now have a knew and better perspective for this situation. I give thanks for little hands and bodies that can open cabinets and drag things out. I was so thrilled to allow Libi the opportunity to explore this cabinet, sitting up on her own and reaching in. I cannot wait until the Lord strengthens her body the the extent that she can toddle over to it on her own two feet and whip that cabinet open and go crazy!!! For now, I rejoice in this, for one year ago this would have been an impossible task for my baby girl.

Connecting the dots...

Have you ever sat back and connected the dots on events in your life and been totally amazed! God has chosen to reveal a little more of this amazing tapestry of Libi Faith.

So, go back with me to April of 2006.

Brad and I were “fresh into” this journey of adoption. God had moved our hearts to surrender to Him and adopt. We had just been licensed for foster care and we were waiting for a call for our first placement. I was imagining that it would be a baby that we would adopt and call our own.

Toward mid April we were asked to take in a unwed expectant young lady, Mandy, as many of you know. There was not much to consider when we were called about Mandy. Brad and I had many conversations about taking in an unwed mother, so we felt that God had prepared us.

I had a dream weeks before we received this phone call about Mandy. In my dream Brad and I were outside a delivery room and had a dark skinned, dark haired babe in our arms. There was a girl with long blonde hair in the delivery bed. After I had the dream I shared it with Brad. I was more intrigued about the baby than I was the girl in the bed. I assumed the girl in the delivery bed had to be my sister in law because I did not know any blonde women that we would be in the delivery room with.

A couple of weeks later I received my first email and pictures of Mandy. The first picture I saw sent me to the floor with shouts and tears. I had seen this girl before, Mandy was the girl in my dream! I had never had a specific vision like this before in my life.

I wondered and prayed that Mandy’s baby might be our child. I began to imagine a girl, I think because that baby in my vision seemed to be a girl.

So, how does this tie in with Libi? The day I saw the pictures and read the verses that follow was the day that Libi Faith was born in China! There was a strong desire in my heart for a baby, and the beginnings of a desire for a daughter. These are the verses that were in my journal that day:

Job 33:13-15

13 Why do you complain to him
that he answers none of man's words?

14 For God does speak—now one way, now another—
though man may not perceive it.

15 In a dream, in a vision of the night,
when deep sleep falls on men
as they slumber in their beds,

so...who was the dark haired babe? It was our foster daughter, Ari. We did not know that our arms would only hold her briefly to prepare us for one we would hold forever. The vision of 2 girls that were preparing me for THE ONE GIRL, born that very day! UNBELIEVABLE!!!! Thank You, God, for revealing this piece of the journey, You are AMAZING!