Though we are so limited as to what we can share via internet, we can share this and do so with great joy:
Hopefully sleeping right now on the other side of the world is our sweet child!
That's right! Joshua is a brother!
As I shared in my November post, our adoption agency has matching night once a month and we were not matched in November. December's matching night will not be until after Christmas. On December 5 (1:26 pm), however, I received a phone call from the China Team saying that they had an exciting surprise for us:
We have a son!
The one for whom we've prayed since September 2011. The one we've told Joshua about since before he was born. Oh how I wish I could share his name with you now because it is so very special...but there will be a season for that. For now let me share how we told our family...
We were determined to surprise our parents. There is just nothing quite like the shock and excitement of telling them they have another grandchild. Nathan's parents called us the week we found out about our son and asked us to meet them on the north side of Atlanta because it had been a while since they had seen us and wanted to get together. (PERFECT!!!) So we tried to very nonchalantly agree and made plans to meet them at the mall in Kennesaw Saturday afternoon. Then I called my parents about a piece of furniture they had offered to give us and asked if we could come get it Sunday. Then Nathan and I searched everywhere for a brother t-shirt for Joshua. We casually slipped the t-shirt on him and traveled to meet both parents expecting to let Joshua surprise them with the news.
Again, there will be a season to share so many special details, I want to leave you with this for now: I heard "Sing Along" by Christy Nockels for the first time in 2012 and I've hummed the chorus as a lullaby ever since. It makes me think about our little guy right now as he is, I pray, sleeping peacefully. I pray too that he comes home very very soon. Please join us in praying over our son!
"Great God, wrap Your arms around this world tonight. And as You hear our cry, sing through the night, and we will join in Your song and sing along." -Sing Along
