Birthday girl!!

Happy 6 month birthday baby A.J.!!!! We can't wait to see you! Side note- our 2 year anniversary is tomorrow!!! Whoo hooo!! -Mama 2 be

ughh

So I had posted several "posts" yesterday and they seem to have gone away. I am going to try to put those back up this weekend. Sometimes technology lets me down ugh . -Mama 2 be

updated nursery pics

Here are just some of things we've been busy doing in the nursery...We had to blur out A.J.'s face on the frame because we have not passed court yet. -Mommy 2 be

The calm "after" the storm

The last time I posted I was in a bad place. I was very angry and upset about not having a court date yet. While I am still upset about that I have been able to move past it, for now, and see the bigger picture- A.J. will be home with us forever before we know it. She will be in our family for the rest of our lives and I have a lifetime to smother her with hugs and kisses. Now, don't get me wrong I still want her home asap and cannot wait until the day that we get to meet her, but for now I have to remain calm and carry on. Sigh....Mommy loves you baby girl! -Mommy 2 be


(sorry about the Corona image posted on this picture...if I could take it off I would.)

It's like the sun is shining when the rain is pouring down...

It's a bitter sweet day. It's been two months since we received our referral and are still waiting for a court date. A.J. is nearing 6 months old and we miss her more and more. I love my baby girl, but today is a little hard to take in.


I do want to give thanks to a special family, despite this hard day. If it were not for the Zimmer family and their little Addia we would not be writing this blog to say the least. I can't remember now what holiday it was when we received an email from them, but we saw Addia's face for the first time in this email. It was such a beautiful little face that we just kind of looked at it for a few minutes without saying a word. Michael, my husband, then turned to me and said "I think they adopted her from Ethiopia"...I just looked at him and said " we should ask them about adopting from Ethiopia". We were in the midst of trying to conceive with no luck despite infertility treatments and had thought about adoption in the past. Little did we know that this email would change our lives. Within a few months we were sending in our application to adopt an infant girl from Ethiopia. Without that email we may never have thought of IA. It was such a blessing to receive that email in such a time of pain. Addia may never know how she changed our lives with just a simple email, but she has and we cannot thank her and her family,the Zimmer's, enough!! Thanks to them we now have a sweet little girl half way across the world. We owe them more thanks than we can ever say. Thank you Zimmer's! -Mommy 2 be

5.6 months...almost 6 months!

Well we finally got an update today with a picture and medical info. She looks like a little old lady! She is getting bigger and bigger!! The strange thing is she looks chunky but her medical says she is actually only in the 5th percentile or a little less. I don't know if this is right or not but the numbers seem much lower than they should be. She looks big for her age to us..hmmm...who knows lol. Can't wait to see her, whenever that will be. -Mommy 2 be

tears, tears and more tears

Well I had to blog about my frustration and sadness...we continue to wait for a court date, despite the many other families who have been receiving court dates. I am to believe that their paperwork was submitted after ours, but I never can know for certain. I know there is nothing I can do, but it hurts to see so many others with a set date and we are still here in limbo. I feel as though we should have received a date already, but who's to know how things are done over there. It's easy to say how things should be regarding adoption but who really knows what they do from day to day? I don't...I hate having no control. This is my little girl we are talking about and I have no say in anything right now. My fingers are crossed that we will receive a court date for June or July...my fingers are very crossed for that! -Keep us in your thoughts as we continue to wait. -Mama 2 be.