sorry for those of you who will see this twice. I posted a note in FB because my blog wasn’t playing nice. As soon as my FB note posted, the blog apologized, and we’re back in business…
Joyce came over to visit again tonight. We love having Annabelle’s Big Sisters show up, and Joyce has committed to stopping by a couple nights each week. She helps Annabelle with her homework, and helps us understand each other. Annabelle is beginning to understand that her Bigs are here to help bridge the gap, and is opening up, talking more about her feelings, asking questions, and trusting us with what’s going on inside her heart.
A lot of the talk tonight was about our adoption process. She looked stunned the other day when we told her that we’d been praying and waiting for 5 years to come to get her. She had some difficulty getting her head around why it took 5 years. (So do we, sweetheart, so do we.) She’s asked if we could ever go visit her friends in China. It’s only natural for her to miss her friends, right? Tonight as Sadie was cleaning out her backpack, some pictures fell out–pictures of Annabelle at her “going away” party with her friends at the orphanage. Annabelle grabbed the pictures and claimed them as her own! I don’t know if Annabelle grasps the concept of money just yet. We would love to visit China again, but it’s a majorly expensive trip. When we tried to explain about the cost, she said, “Daddy was spending a lot of money in Guangzhou!” Too funny!
Joyce and Annabelle tried to call the orphanage tonight, but couldn’t get the magic cell phone to work. They plan to try again tomorrow night. I think Kim’s going to send a care package to some of AB’s besties over there next week.
Kim also asked Annabelle what she thought about us adopting another child someday. AB immediately whipped out the pictures of her friends and started pointing out the ones we should go get! When Kim said that we were thinking of adopting from a different country, Annabelle told her that some foreign kids came to visit her home (orphanage, I guess) once, and they were very disruptive, didn’t behave, and left things all a mess. She’s pretty clear on her opinion of kids from other countries! We’ll have to keep praying about this, and see if God can change her mind, like he changed mine.
Kim has started to post pictures from our trip to China. If you haven’t friended her, you might want to. She’s the Kim Sublett with our family as her profile pic, just in case you weren’t clear on that.
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