Loved

Through much of this adoption process, TJ and I have felt pretty alone. We had a couple friends that had been with us through the whole thing and were guiding us through, but for the most part, we did it alone. Some of it was by choice because we are very private people, other just because no one who had not been through what we had understood or really knew what to say or anything. Sometimes people try to be encouraging and everything but they say the way wrong things.
That is so not the point of this post though. The point is to really just say how blessed we really are. We have felt so alone and yet God has shown us that we are never alone. This past month has been so crazy. I can't believe that we have only known about LM for a month now! How time flies! In that time span there was Christmas, New Years and not one but 2 snow storms! We have been rushing around like crazy trying to get everything done and ready for our little guy to come home. We are finally to a place that we feel at least somewhat prepared!
Anyway, back to being alone. As soon as we got the call that we were selected, my first call other than TJ was to my best friend Alison. I knew both my parents were at work and so I could not get in touch with them. Anyway, Alison and her husband have walked this journey with us. Often giving us the encouragement to not give up and to try again. SO needless to say, they were so excited for us! Alison started planning a shower. Since where we live now is not our hometown, or even our home state, I did not really think that many people would come and didn't really want to have a shower. But we did and I was so blessed that all my girlfriends from this area came. I am not the type person to have a lot of artificial girlfriends. I have few friends but they are all really close and they all came. We had a great time and TJ and I are so grateful for each and every one of those girls.
TJ and I went to church this Sunday. That is not a huge deal in itself as we always go to church. The difference is that we have recently switched churches. We love our new church. It is so amazing and we feel right at home. Our new pastor and his wife are Alison adoptive parents. How cool is that?! They have prayed for us, and with us since we have told them about our long journey. What a blessing they have been. Anyway, totally expectantly another woman in our church offered to throw us another adoption shower. This really touched TJ and I as we have not been attending this church for very long. We are so blessed that God has led us to such a wonderful church. We have really realized that we need to rely more on our church and even though we are private people, God has called us to support each other and lift each other up in prayer. And the only way to do that is to share with our church family. Thank you God for Dorothy and for Sherry. I am so blessed to have such wonderful mentors in my life and women that I can look up to as moms and to have them love on our baby boy!