Our Journey begins

The floor was covered with packets from every international adoption agency we could find.  We looked through all the programs and I remember lying in bed with our first baby, who was then about four months old, thinking wow next year we will have another baby beside us all in this bed.  I had this longing to be a mother to a child who did not have someone to call mommy.  Well three babies later and now eight years have gone by and we have yet to actually move past the packets spread all over the floor.  Until now!  What have we been waiting for?  The word mommy was a word I took for granted as a child.  I so freely got to throw that word out and I knew that she would come to pick me up, love me, hold me, and applaud my achievement.  The realization that so many millions of children have no one to say mommy to, no one is going to gather them up in arms full of love and say you are my son you are my daughter, it has shaken me this week.  I have been challenged to the point of movement.  Todd and I can not save every orphan child, but we can give one, two, even several more something that every child longs for- A DADDY, A MOMMY, A FAMILY.  Our journey has begun.  We are beginning the process to bring home our son or daughter from Uganda.  We will be adding color to our family and that is so exciting.  Our first step is to find a bigger place so that we have another bedroom.  I have created this blog so that we can share with all of you the journey.  So many of you came with us to Equatorial Guinea, you loved us when we returned home, and now we want to share with you another voyage.  You never know what the impact of one will be.  Let's impact as many as possible!