Sunday, June 15, 2014

Daddy's Day

It's Father's Day so I feel the need to brag up the best Daddy ever.  I'm sure as Steve grew up he never envisioned having a family this big. He's the oldest of four children and has exactly six cousins. In fact I distinctly remember the conversation about children when we were falling in love. He asked how many kids I wanted and I replied, "as many as we have". (I meant six or eight.) I asked him the same question and received the same answer. (He meant three or four.) But life is awesome like that. You think you know what you want and then.....
Our third child, Miss Brianna, was hard to get here. A very difficult pregnancy that brought some serious health problems. We were told that IF I lived through the delivery I would be lucky and that certainly we shouldn't have any more children. I think Steve was able to come to terms with this. After all, having three children is an enormous blessing. However, I knew there were more little people meant for our family so this was a difficult time for me.
For several years we tried to adopt. We started the process to become foster parents. I spent a lot of time begging for understanding. My sweet man tried to understand me. And then one day I had a conversation with a woman who knew someone that knew someone that might be able to help me! That conversation led to a doctor and surgery and soon after we were blessed with Sir Jake. And then Miss Emily. And then I had to announce that Steve was going to be an F.O.S. He didn't take the Father of Six thing as well as you might expect. He was overwhelmed. And now it was my turn to try to understand him.
Can I just say how good God is. At this crucial time in our lives He sent angels to both of us. For Steve it was a vision of himself in heaven, a white-blonde little girl tapping on his shoulder, and she was asking him why he didn't let her be a part of the family. He started to explain that we couldn't afford her, that our house was too small, that he.....then he realized that there was no excuse he could live with. It was no surprise that Miss Sarah has the most stunning white-blonde hair.....and seven younger siblings.

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