super neat, fantastically awesome, handmade hats! :)

get pumped because i am.  and i'm overwhelmed with sweetness.  our dear friends and fellow adoptive parents, nina and wes mullins, are helping us with some adoption fundraising since they are pros after bringing their incredibly beautiful twins home from ethiopia three years ago (which i went to photograph with them...amazing story...i'll have to share sometime...in the mean time go see those pics of then and now).

nina's mom is a very talented woman and offered to knit us hats to sell in return for us helping them get some work done on their home lately.  hardly seems enough for us to do that while they handle all the rest...but take a look at these super cute hats!!! kiddos and adult sizes!! these are traditional norwegian hats (as her mom is norwegian) and definitely knitted with love.  we are so honored she would take the time to knit these for us and are so thrilled to offer them for sale just before christmas!! and the info needed is at the link below!!

LINK TO ORDER this is where you can make special order requests also in case you happen to not be a UK fan (which is silly) or don't already love these color choices!


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thanks so much, ia!!! and nina for handling this all!! 100% of the proceeds go back to our adoption funding...and any we raise beyond what is needed will go to bless the incredible orphanage we have come to love!  :)

our waiting father.

there are many other things that i should probably update and type about tonight.  but i just finished getting ready for bed and i'm just...well....sad. just a little bit.  incredibly hopeful.  but this evening. sad.

i texted someone this evening and said simply "i'm crying. missing a child i've never met."

i've not experienced this before.  i mean it was different when we were trying for a family biologically and the month would come and go with no positive news in that area.  i know that feeling.  but this one is different.  i know we will be placed with a child. i know it. and so somewhere, on the other side of the world. is a mom. likely pregnant or perhaps hurting as she has just made an adoption plan. somewhere there's a plan in place for a child to be mine. and yet they have no idea who i am. and i miss them.

as i sat on my bed (yup, crying...and journaling) God whispered to me His perspective.

i'm feeling what he feels. for those he also aches for and yet do not know him...he loves them immensely and yet they haven't found him. known him. loved him back yet....but he LOVES, hard and deeply...as i do for a child who doesn't know me yet. 

i love that he's preparing my heart.

but tonight i miss them.