woke up to {surprise!} snow on saturday morning!
i don't know if we just didn't listen, or if it really WAS a surprise...but i got to run 9 miles in this to start the day off - perfect!
{still hoping for 1 BIG snowstorm this year....}
met a friend for lunch on saturday.
wow.
i need to do that more often!
that was SO fun!
i woke up saturday morning thinking about something that i haven't allowed myself to think about for months:
the day we arrive back HOME from picking up our kids in rwanda.
i used to think about it often.
but it became too painful.
i don't know WHY i woke up thinking about it.
but i did.
and i allowed myself to go there.
and the HOPE it filled my heart with was something i think i needed.
i have no idea how i will ACTUALLY feel that day.
BUT...i KNOW that it will be such an amazing feeling.
after months of hoping that pat would want to adopt.
after months of paperwork once we decided to move forward with it.
after months....possibly years of waiting to bring them home.
after weeks away from home to go and get them...
picturing arriving at the airport...our family of 8 all together for the first time...
and friends and family there that have been with us EVERY step of the way.
well, it's just about too much, right??
i've cried many tears of sadness, loneliness, frustration, confusion over the last few months.
but, this weekend, to cry tears full of HOPE was so sweet!
oh, how i yearn for that day...i'm just thankful for those thoughts and mental images He put in my mind as i started a new day...
we celebrated pat's sister, stephanie's, 30th birthday on saturday night!
always fun to be with family!
bailey and grandmommy playing guess who.
i put my pj's on the second we walked in the door!
lots of wii and football game watching...
and ended the night with some races around the house...
