Seeing You

"One gets only a day or two in an entire life as incredible as the day we first saw your face."

-Nancy McGuire Roche, adoptive parent, excerpted from a book of quotes about adoption-

(Thanks, Sofi).

Here We Go!

Seventeen years have passed since that warm summer evening to remember. We were kids, Ed and I - and not old enough to have learned that yet. We were young, in love (seriously), and eager for a Selma's ice cream cone to cap off the evening.



On our way, through the driver's side window as we cruised through Afton, the sun was setting through thick fog covering a wood-lined hayfield. Its glow sank in a hazy blur of purplepink. It was pure magic. And because we loved beauty, and because we loved metaphors, and because we were young and in love, we stopped the car.

In Faith, Through Thick Fog

Two kids hopped the fence
and, in total innocence,
ran without seeing.

Just because we could.
Just because it meant we would
run together through...

Life - no matter what.
Other side of fences "shut",
and smile, victorious.

Knowing, even then,
Someday, we would run again
in faith, through thick fog.

Here's to the sweet unfolding of another metaphor, part of the larger Story.

Pray if you do, as we 'run'... Thank you.

See you soon, as a family of 3! :-)


-1 Corinthians 13:12-13, The Message-

"We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing Him directly just as He knows us! But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love."

"You've Got To Be Kidding Me..."

Okay - maybe we're a little biased, but pretty sure she is the absolute most adorable thing we've ever laid eyes on...

-E & V-

Time to Fly

June twenty-ninth: we
leave to pick our daughter up.
July 10th, we're home.



July 3rd is huge;
things will never be the same.
That day, we hold her.

What words can we say
that will calm her wide-eyed heart?
"'Sarumillya', Love"

Nesting: in progress,
but it's almost time to fly.
Waiting has an end.