Posted in The Adoption Journey for Our Future Grandchildren

My daughter and her husband will be celebrating their daughter Ellora's birthday tomorrow---she would have been 1 year old.  It seems like just yesterday that Ellora made her entrance into this world.  Chelle and Josh will be going through her things for the first time since her death, and just remembering the joy that she brought to us for those 10 special days last March. 

Then on Saturday morning, they will be leaving on a trip to the state of Delaware to visit the two boys that quite possibly will become my next two grandchildren.  There have been so many ups and downs on this adoption journey, and I hope and pray that this one will stay "UP."  My son-in-law is already calling them "my boys," and is excitedly looking at playground sets and climbing towers that he can build for them, and planning to be a Cub Scout den leader. 

Josh was so nervous on the phone the other day.  He frantically said, "What on earth do you DO with a 7 and a 9 year old boy???"  He is thinking it through too much.  I think it kind of freaked him momentarily to find out that the social workers were actually going to let them have alone time with the boys on the first visit. They hadn't expected that, so it was a surprise.  My son said the answer was simple---they want to eat and play :-)

How I wish I could have shared all the rest of the stories with you all, but there are privacy issues, and also my daughter didn't want to get family members all excited about something before things were pretty sure.  There were some pretty sure things before, that ended in disappointment.  But this time, it looks like things may finally fall into place!!!

The boys are 7 and 9 years old, are African-American, and really anxious to find a permanent home.  They are adorable!!!  I can't wait until this is a "for sure" so I can give you their names and show you their pictures!!!  They are so adorable, or as my youngest son says, "handsome would be the proper term at their age."  But they are CUTE!!! 

The youngest has mild Cerebral Palsy and mild learning disabilities, but is coming along well.   The oldest wants a "real family" desperately bad, and keeps asking his social worker if they have found him a real home yet.  I want to be their grandma so badly!

Chelle and Josh will get to spend a couple hours alone with the boys on Sunday after meeting them with their case worker first, then they will get to spend Monday alone with them, too.  Then they will drive back home on Tuesday.  Yours truly will be running the shop for them, and anxiously waiting to hear what the DCS has to say.  We are hoping that they will let the boys come for a visit here during spring break. 

My only living grandchild, sweet Nova Lynn, is excited to finally have cousins.  They will be near her age, too.  She will be 8 in May.  At school she loves to play football with the boys, so having boy cousins will probably suit her just fine.  That little stinker is the one who sold me the Samoas that I warned all the Blubber Bloggers about.  I have to walk 20 minutes before I eat each cookie, and she thinks it is just so funny.  Wait till she gets to be an old granny who is overweight, and can't in good conscience eat a Samoa! LOL 

I'm so excited that Chelle and Josh gave me their permission to share with you about the boys, R. and T.  Please pray with me that this time what looks like a sure thing turns out to really be a sure thing.  The fact that they will be meeting on the week that Ellora was with us almost seems like a sign of approval from heaven that this is meant to be this time.  Maybe Ellora is helping to see that she has brothers and sisters to help mend her Mommy and Daddy's hearts.  Josh says, "We need them, and they need us.  We need to be a family." 

And this is me with my precious little Ellora Faye.  I'm pointing to her little "pout face" mouth that looked identical to the one her mommy had when she was little.  I treasure this picture, because it is the only one I have of the two of us together.  The baby green blanket is one that I was crocheting for her, and hadn't finished yet at the time she was born.  I quickly finished off the end when they took her out of the isolette, and wrapped it around her, so she could die not only in her mommy's arms, but wrapped in the blankie her Granny had lovingly made just for her.