I apologize for not writing sooner on here, but really every time I'd start, I never knew what to say. There's just too much to put into writing and I don't even know where to begin. However, something has to be written, the story is still going on, so here goes nothing....
A small amount of backstory has to be shared first before we can get caught up. About a year ago, when we both knew that we were going to adopt or foster, we started just beginning to think about possible names for our next child. There was one week where it seemed that almost every character in the books I read to the kids, or the movies we watched as a family was named Lucy. I casually asked Ben what he thought of the name, Lucy. His initial response was, that he didn't care for it. Somehow though we began "jokingly" saying things like, "When Lucy is here, it'll be fun to..."etc. Then the kids began picking up on it and they started referring to their sister as Lucy. It was evident that the name had stuck when we went to a family's house who had adopted their daughter from China and when their daughter woke up from her nap and came downstairs, Lilee pointed to her and looked at me saying, "Lucy?"
We knew it was highly unlikely that our girl would come with the name Lucy, and we weren't sure if we'd change her name to this once we got her, but for sure it would always be a nickname for her in our family. From that moment on, we referred to our little girl in China as Lucy.
Well on May 19th, I saw a post from our agency with a super cute picture of a little girl and the blog title for her was, "We Love Lucy!" After picking my jaw up off the floor, I clicked on her story and read about her... "She's a sweet girl, with a sweet little laugh...she loves hairbows... loves to sing...she's 3 years old, has strabismus (cross eye) and has increased muscle tone in her legs and walks on her tiptoes with a halting gait." I saw a video of her walking and playing with hairbows. Ben was working, so I sent him the link to look at the blog. After talking with him, we decided to send an email to the contact person to find out what we could even do to possibly get more information about her. I received an email saying a family had her file, but if it fell through we'd be next on the list. We prayed about her and the situation, trusting that if she was meant to be with us, God would make a way. A week later, I got an email saying her file was available if we wanted to look at it. We knew that looking at it wasn't committing, so we had nothing to lose.
During the next two weeks, God did some amazing work in our hearts to bring us to the conclusion that we would pursue this little girl, trusting that if it wasn't right for her or us, then God would close the doors... so far every door has been wide open, we are just waiting on the final approval from China, which should be here in the next month.
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