One Week Left...and Remembering

It's Tuesday night and as I sit at the computer finishing a bit of my editing work, I realized that in a week I will be trying to fall asleep before rising early to get to the airport to fly to China to bring home Katie. It is amazing to me that the time is nearly here. It feels like it has been such a long journey to get to this point. Alexander arrived in our lives on October 23, 2002, and we knew almost immediately that we wanted a larger family. In November 2003, we learned that we were expecting our second child. Then we lost that baby. In April 2004, we learned were expecting another child. Our last baby would have turned 1 year old this week. In less than two weeks, we will finally have the baby we have wanted for so long. We are grateful to God for this opportunity to have Katie in our lives, yet we still grieve for the babies we never had the chance to bring home. Holding Katie, I hope, will help some of that grief to be put to rest. We will never forget, but I hope that it gets easier with time...