Sunday nights are becoming a good reflection time for considering the past week and thanking God for the joys I have experienced. We were able to have Savanah and Danelle stay with us the whole weekend and I am learning that with 5 daughters there are a million requests for my time. Can you read a book? Will you play a game with us? Can we swim? Can we do manicures?....Can you make us a sign so we can open a hair salon in our room?...and many...many....many more requests. On Saturday evening, Savanah asked me if I had time to braid her hair so it would be wavy for church on Sunday. Any other time, I would have been tempted to say I had other things I needed to do. I did have a list of things I wanted to try to get done that evening and I had a suspicion that braiding her hair would cause a chain reaction (If you know what I mean). Sure enough, my suspicion proved to be correct and I ended up searching for enough rubberbands to braid 5 golden heads of hair.
Now comes the payoff story for the time I spent. Today, Karly and Danelle were in the restroom at church and Karly asked a lady in the bathroom if she liked her hair and the lady reponded, "yes, who did it for you?" to which Karly responded, "my mom"...then Danelle asked the same lady if she liked her hair too...and the lady responded, "yes...and who did your hair?" and she said, "my mom". She hasn't actually referred to me this way yet, so I was quite surprised (and happy) to hear she had said that. I have kind-of been thinking they would probably never call me "mom"...not because they hadn't yet because it is still early in our process of getting to know each other and bonding, but because they are old enough to have pretty strong attachments with their biological parents. I will be surprised if she begins calling me "mom" regularly any time soon, but that gives me a sweet little hope that we may reach that point eventually.
God never stops surprising me!
Heather and Brad... talked to your Mom yesterday morning and she caught me up on the Blessing(s) that God has been supplying... WOW!!! I had been checking your blog ever so often but never saw anything NEW from the first blog I had seen. Then...duh...I realized I had to back off the title of your first blog behind your blog address and WALA... good reading for a Christian heart... God is showing you the way without a doubt... Your Mom even told me about the names of the bedspreads you checked out in a catalog, WOW again!! Must go, don't want to go over the comment Limit!! Love you, Aunt Sharon
ReplyDeleteHi Aunt Sharon! I thought I had already replied to your comment, but just noticed I did not...thank you for your comment and encouragement! Our experience through this adoption process really has been quite a journey of discovering how audible God's voice can be...I have never in my life seen His hand and leading with as much evidence as I have seen it in recent days. I am so grateful it has been this clear....it certainly gives me a peace even through challenging nights like this one where we are dealing with some tough questions and sadness from the girls. Even though we have tons of fun together...that still doesn't change the fact that this transition in going to be tough for them. Thank you for keeping us in your prayers. Love you too, Heather
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