Here are some things that happen when you adopt (and we haven't faced the potential challenges that will come when she's home....hahahahahah (mad hatter laugh)):
1. You don't sleep...unless it's 3:00 in the afternoon and your body just collapses!
2. You become a hypochondriac, knowing you must have a pulmonary embolus, DVT, brain aneurysm, or heart attack every time your anxiety level reaches the point you have shortness of breath and chest pain and cramps in your leg.
3. You don't sleep, because you know you'll surely die from your blood clot in the middle of the night
4. You can't stop talking and thinking about your adopted child and have to consciously remind yourself to focus on the present and the children you have in your arms.
5. You eat! A lot! A lot of chocolate!
6. you stalk Indian people
7. You dye your hair to be more indian, you cook Indian food, you watch 3 hour long Bollywood movies constantly, you learn hindi.....you become Indian!!
8. Your brain is MUSH
9. You realize that your adoption is not the only one and the world doesn't revolve around it, and so you stay frustrated because no one else seems to think your child being without a mother is an emergency!! When in fact, it is an emergency!!
10. Your husband thinks you are crazy!
11. You cry....a lot!.....while you eat cookie dough ice cream!
12. You realize alot about about yourself and your relationship with God. You realize: you like to get your way and you secretly think God's way wasn't as good as yours, you learn to trust God completely, you learn how to lose control instead of take control.
13. Your vision changes. You see people differently, you see children differently, you pray for the nations more.
And I would do it all over again if I had to!!
Adoption is awesome! It is a calling! And it is hard!
These children are worth the wait! How blessed we are that God is near to us in our waiting!
Now, I'm going to eat some raw cookie dough and watch Vivah one more time!!
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