Our family of seven has now become a family of eight and life as we know it will once again drastically change (and we are incredibly thankful).
Tim, Olivia and Maxwell's plane is just about to depart from Hong Kong. As we prepare for our family to be reunited we want to express our gratitude for your love,
support and prayers during the last ten months. We will be forever
thankful for the encouragement of family, friends and strangers,
and for the
new friendships
that emerged along the way.
I am one blessed mama.
Life in our household is about to look completely different. Maxwell will call us "Mama" and "Baba"....yet, he won’t truly know what these words mean.
He needs to learn that we will be the ones to fulfill his needs.
He needs to know that he can depend on us...and together we will help him learn what it’s like to be a family.
In order to do that, we have specific things that we will do to help Maxwell adjust and continue with the bonding process.
We will be "cocooning" for a while.
We'll be lying low...with the eight of us.
We will be spending our days at home.
We will try to decrease the amount of stimulation in our life as the seeds of attachment are planted.
With time we will venture out more and continually assess how our sweet boy is adjusting.
We post the adorable pictures and cute videos,
the best side of adoption; the easy parts.
But there is definitely a side of the process that isn't easy,
that's incredibly challenging,
that's sometimes darker.
But He has called us out upon these waters,
and there will be times when our feet will fail.
But even when the attachment storms are raging,
we know that our Lord will lead us, grow us
and bring us to trust Him without borders...
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight."
Proverbs 3:5-6
We look forward to you meeting our new son and we want him to meet all of you; once he’s comfortably made this transition.
We are so grateful for each of you.
Thank you for richly blessing our lives and praying us through.
With Love,
Rebecca and Tim
I am one blessed mama.
Life in our household is about to look completely different. Maxwell will call us "Mama" and "Baba"....yet, he won’t truly know what these words mean.
He needs to learn that we will be the ones to fulfill his needs.
He needs to know that he can depend on us...and together we will help him learn what it’s like to be a family.
In order to do that, we have specific things that we will do to help Maxwell adjust and continue with the bonding process.
We will be "cocooning" for a while.
We'll be lying low...with the eight of us.
We will be spending our days at home.
We will try to decrease the amount of stimulation in our life as the seeds of attachment are planted.
With time we will venture out more and continually assess how our sweet boy is adjusting.
We post the adorable pictures and cute videos,
the best side of adoption; the easy parts.
But there is definitely a side of the process that isn't easy,
that's incredibly challenging,
that's sometimes darker.
But He has called us out upon these waters,
and there will be times when our feet will fail.
But even when the attachment storms are raging,
we know that our Lord will lead us, grow us
and bring us to trust Him without borders...
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight."
Proverbs 3:5-6
We look forward to you meeting our new son and we want him to meet all of you; once he’s comfortably made this transition.
We are so grateful for each of you.
Thank you for richly blessing our lives and praying us through.
With Love,
Rebecca and Tim
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