One year ago today I wrote a blog post titled “Six Months." On June 15, 2017 Kevin and I had officially been a waiting family for six months. Today, exactly one year later, we have a seven month old daughter. My mind sometimes just doesn’t quite comprehend that this is real life. The first line of that blog post reads: It’s not that we love waiting; it’s that we love the one we are waiting for. That was a truth that God had given us – it’s the little bit of hope we had to hold onto. Gosh, waiting was hard, but if it meant waiting on the little one He had planned for us, we would do it. Little did we know that at that time, the birth mother who would choose us just 5 months later, she was carrying our daughter. Emmarie would have been in her birth mama’s womb for approximately 2 months this time last year. And they, they were states away. Birth mama “C” is from Alabama. We weren’t even in the same state. If someone would have told me that the woman who would choose us...
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