Well.......we have a new LOVE in our life!!! Welcome Nora Gabriella Scott - born 7/31, gifted to us through adoption on 8/16.
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| Nora is just 5 days old here! We're in her nursery and you can see how in love we are! |
I have been struggling to write this post because adoption is so full of so many things. First, I cannot imagine the world now any different than being Nora's mom. It's incredible. It's sleepless. It's so full of love. But the journey to get here has been full of God's grace, but so, well...difficult. We knew in our heads that loss is always a part of adoption. Both the birthfamily and the adoptive family experience loss in a myriad of ways. But we never expected to be so immediately in love with a baby who was not yet ours to parent forever. And I also never expected to empathize so much with the feelings of grief that we knew Nora's birthfamily was experiencing. When we drove away from the hospital, I almost passed out I was experiencing SO MUCH EMOTION.
Nora came home with us on Friday, 8/3, but it wasn't until Thursday, 8/16 that we knew she'd be in our family forever. Those two weeks were easily the hardest I've experienced in my life. I knew God was calling me to love this perfect, precious, gorgeous girl NO MATTER WHAT. Even if it was only for 2 weeks. But every moment I remembered it could be my last with her was torture. But we loved anyway, and boy did we LOVE!
She's now a month old and I can't believe it took me this long to write even this little bit of our story!!! I promise I'll tell more of it soon, but for now, just look at this perfect little angel!
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| Nora is 4 weeks old here, and wearing her first dress! |
