My Ebenezer

Posted May 12th 2009

by Ebenezer

I guess it takes me getting on an airplane to finally post again. It’s absolutely pathetic how lazy I’ve gotten and I hope to remedy that soon.

Mathew’s adoption was finalized on May 29, 2009. I’d like to say it was uneventful but poor little Gracey threw up for most of the day. She started just outside the courthouse by puking all over Grammy’s shirt. We had to wait about an hour or so before we stood before the Judge and poor thing must have tossed her cookies ten times. Add to that the fact that this county had just closed ALL SCHOOLS for two weeks because there were two confirmed cases of swine flu. I’m sure the other people in the waiting area were terrified of us.

Standing in front of the Judge took all of 5 minutes and then we were out the door and headed home. Legally a forever family. I don’t mean to sound so apathetic about the whole thing its just that it was incredibly anti-climatic. I knew in the beginning, when we first learned of his conception, that God meant for Mathew to be ours. Along the way I had my doubts and towards the end I had all but given up. Once I got the call that we could go and pick him up I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that he would be ours forever. That was the celebration – the rest was just formality.

I haven’t yet sent out announcements or started planning for the party because we are going to celebrate on his birthday. Sometime between now and then we’ll have him baptized and then just have one huge party celebrating his rebirth in Christ (or at least our commitment to raising him in such a way that he will choose that rebirth for himself one day), his rebirth into our “legal” family and the celebration of his physical birthday. I see a huge BBQ in our very near future.

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