Still on the journey, but not like before...

The house is so quiet...at least for the moment anyway:)  Everyone is asleep...except me of course, but that's pretty typical:/ Tomorrow is just such a big day, and my mind won't shut down...

Since I started this blog, you've probably read many statements over the past several months that spoke of "another step in the journey" or something along those lines, and tomorrow it seems like we come to the culmination of each of those steps, because tomorrow (technically today since I'm up past midnight) we get to finalize Gabriel's adoption!  It's so crazy to look back on this past year and retrace each of those monumental steps...

• Feeling called to adopt (My first blog entry)
• Choosing an agency (12/31/11)
• Attending orientation (January 2012)
• Starting the paperwork (January 2012) (remember me blogging about the MOUNDS of paperwork, plus necessary classes, fingerprinting, scrapbook, dear birthmother letter, etc.)
• FINISHING the paperwork! (March 2012)
• Interviews and Homestudy (March 2012)
• Getting approved (April 10, 2012)
• Getting our online profile
• Getting the call that a birthmother had chosen us
• Meeting the birthmother!
• Waiting for baby boy to arrive
• Gabriel's birth (June 26th, 2012)
• Bringing Gabriel home (June 28th, 2012)
• Waiting the 30 days for parental rights to be terminated
• Post placement visits
• Waiting for a court date/turning in documents to attorney
• Court date being set for 12/12/12!

So it would seem that now we are at the end of our journey, but now that we're here, it really seems like our journey has only just begun.  Perhaps this part of our adoption journey is coming to a close, but I don't think the road will ever come to a halt.  There will be new moments to experience as a family as we continue to wait for what God has in store for us...the only difference is that this time, we will be waiting as a family of FOUR, and we could not be any more thankful or blessed!

We are still on the journey

But it's not like before

For we started as three

And now we are four.