Friday, January 10, 2014

6 1/2 Months....




WOW...  have we already been home for 1/2 year?..  How did that happen?  I blinked and now my daughters have been home for 6 1/2 month!!!

 This blog started our telling the story of our adoption and now is the story of our lives...  God is faithful!   He is our ever-present help in time of need.  Weather we choose to see it or not, God is present!  From the moment we prayerfully made the decision to enter the adoption journey ... to working for 6 months on the mounds and mounds of required documents needed for our Dossier...to waiting for the email referral photos of our daughters to open on the computer... to sending back the acceptance email for our daughters,  to our 1st trip to Haiti in Feb 2012, to meet our beautiful, spirited, fantastic, amazing, fun-loving, smart, full of life daughters...  to our 2nd trip in May 2012 with my Mom, Sister and friend Liz to spend a week with our daughters.. to the long, tiring, heartbreaking wait ... from the fund-raisers, prayers, hugs, tears and wait.....and wait...and wait...... to the call with our adoption agency almost 3 years after we submitted our initial application to adopt from Haiti... telling us our girls were READY to come HOME!... booking those flights to Haiti- 2 round trip and 2 one way!!!!!

 God is ever-present!

And now...  "after the wait"...  or as Jen Hatmaker calls it... "after the airport"...  we are in the midst of the hard work!   After such a LONG and EXHAUSTING journey to bring my family together... my kids are home... right where I know they were meant to be...  we are the Condon Clan... God formed this family together and He is ever-present!! 

We are home... it is rough... after all the build up and the wait... this side of it is HARD...  we are in survival transition mode ... it's not pretty most day's and I don't think either Darren or myself has ever been this utterly exhausted...both physically and mentally.  Tears, tantrums, hoarding, bed wetting, anger, frustration, grief, Post-Adoption Depression, sleepless nights, constant and unyielding discipline, time-outs, doctors apts & surgery, post-placement social worker visits, setting firm boundaries, cacooning, structure, teaching table manners-proper bathroom habits/hygiene, tears, tears and more tears...  and the list could go on and on.....This is exactly what we prayed for... what our hearts longed for... what God had for us... so we will walk it out, knowing He is ever-present!