Dear Baby

Dear Baby is an open letter I write to my future child.  Read more about why here

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Dear Baby,

Thanksgiving was last week.  Your family gathered together and cooked and ate and laughed and played cards.  The littles played games and watched videos and read books.  It made me so happy to know that someday, you'll be surrounded with love.  You will come home to a family that is just so full of love.

I made a cheesecake for Thanksgiving dessert.  It was a disaster.  My trusty cheesecake recipe failed me.  Or maybe it was this cheap apartment oven.  Either way, it was a mess.  Uncle Todd and I sliced into the cake hoping for a creamy slice of deliciousness and were met with raw cheesecake batter instead.  I threw as much of it as I could save from running onto the floor into a baking dish and baked it again.  I called it Cheesecake Mush.  Everyone still ate it - I think they were just being polite.

We have been approved by our adoption agency!  Did you know that??  Tomorrow we will go to an orientation meeting and figure out just what we need to do next to get you home.  We are so excited, baby.  You are the topic of conversation so frequently.  We don't know you, but we are making plans for you, about you, and around you.  We can't wait to be your Mom and Dad.  We can't wait to be a family of three.  I crocheted a Christmas stocking for Ranger today.  I want to make one for you too... but I'll wait until you're here.

Baby, you will never believe this, but we have been receiving donations from our friends toward the moneys we need to bring you home.  When I say that you are going to be loved, I don't just mean by us.  You are going to come into a world that is full of people who are praying for you, waiting for you, and already keeping a vacant space in their heart just for you.   I hope that you never EVER doubt that you are loved and wanted.  Because you 100% absolutely are.

{The letter that came from an anonymous friend.  What a blessing!}

I want you to know my prayers for you today:

1) That whenever you come, Daddy and I will always be diligent about sharing Jesus with you.  I pray that you will know Him as your Savior.  I pray that you will love Him even better than we do.
2) That God will provide the remaining money - $13,080 is still needed as of today.
3) That you are healthy
4) That you would be here soon.  (My secret hope is that you are here before Mother's Day.)
5) That we bond quickly.
6) That you always feel accepted, wanted, and loved by your family.
7) That I would be the Mommy that you need even when I'm not the Mommy that you want.

There are so many other things, baby.  But that's a good list for now.  I miss you!  I LOVE YOU!!  You had better get used to hearing that, because I have a feeling I'm going to say it to you about 497 times a day.

I'll be dreaming of you!

Always,

Mommy

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