Let's keep this ball rolling!!

So for those of you who don't have Facebook and can't keep up with my obsessive adoption updating, prayer requests and ya know, venting, here is the latest. 

THE PRELIMINARY HEARING WE WERE PRAYING FOR IS SCHEDULED!! 

So put simply, after this meeting this month we are just waiting for a call. THE call to say we have a court date and it's time to pack our bags and head to Ethiopia to make our little Jane Jordan legally and officially and FOREVER ours! 

It's surreal that after all these years, and I mean ALL these years, that we are finally going to hop on a plane as if it's no big thing and make this angel an Agan. I felt God, not a single doubt in my mind, place adoption on my heart in 2003 as I sat on the floor of a hut in Uganda playing with a precious little boy, so full of love and joy. I remembered being so struck with the joy these kids were able to maintain in spite of their circumstances. I left Uganda and knew I would be returning to Africa one day to make one of these precious children my own. And although Uganda turned into Ethiopia, here we are: Twelve years, one husband, and two kids later watching God finish what he began in my little teenage heart. 

It's been a joy and a challenge and it's been so painful I have felt like I could just curl up and hide at times. We've been pushed and stretched in every way a person can be pushed and stretched. And she's not even home yet! But we've grown closer to God, wrestled with who He is and what it looks like to try to love like He does. We've felt hopeless and hopeful. Joyful and full of sadness. Excited and anxious. Worn out and energized. Adoption is a roller coaster that's for sure! 

But we are nearing the end of the wait and almost to the beginning of the real journey. Bring it on. I know adoption is hard. I know we won't sleep, won't understand, and will wanna run away and let someone else be the parents for a day or two or three. I had new born twins. I hope I don't scare easy anymore! Only time will tell. But what I do know is that she will be ours. So really that's all that matters. She will be OURS!! Easy or hard. We will love this little girl forever. 

So please pray with us that my phone rings sometime in early July and we hear the words that it's time to go meet our girl!! 

Love,

The mommy to almost THREE little Angels! 

The girls are pumped too. Well, not really. They keep asking if she will take their chocolate milk and pancakes. And when I ask if she can come live with us they say "no baby jane live at her own house!" I'm also not totally sure if they get that she's more than a picture on the wall! Oh two year olds! Buuuuut I have high hopes for all three of my sweet peas and have no doubt this little duo was always meant   to be a trio! ❤️