An Appropriate Ending? The Beginning

I'm finally getting around to my last post in my 'Our Journey to Sophie' series. I guess this makes Part VI (wow!), and I'm ending this miraculous story, where else, but at the beginning.

As most of you know, Sophie lives at the New Day Foster Home, and I was led to their website through Sara, Mya's mom. I remember the day that I found out Sara had been matched with Mya. As I watched her video announcement, I became very emotional. Much more so than I usually did when I read about a family being matched with their child, and I didn't know why. I think I chalked it up to seeing a lot of similarities in our families, and probably a bit of hormones at the time.

I continued to follow Sara's journey, and one evening I was on her blog watching a beautiful video she posted that was put out by New Day. While this was going on, Nathan was reading and Owen was drawing at the table behind me. As I played the video, Owen was putting the final touches on his 'masterpieces'. He came to me with two drawings. Keeping my eyes focused on the playing video, I asked him to please wait until I finished the video. His pleads told me he was VERY proud and excited about them, so I looked away from the video to give him attention. He had drawn 2 separate dragonflies. I was surprised, as he had never drawn dragonflies before and the subject seemed to have come from out of the blue. After Owen had had his fill of praise, I looked back at the video, and the very next second a picture appeared of a little girl running with a kite that had two dragonflies on them!!

It's fair to say, I got some serious chills!!




I knew this was more than a coincidence. Not only did I scan his pictures, (I just knew I would want these some day), but more importantly, I knew I needed to look into this New Day place!! I found their website and started to look at all the adorable faces. I soon came to realize what a wonderful place New Day Foster Home was, and as I searched the scrapbook for the girl with the kite, I quickly became captivated with 'Cheryl'. Whenever I came across a picture of her, she pulled at my heart like no other. Soon, without even realizing it, I found myself searching for just 'Cheryl'. After numerous photos, I finally did find the photo of the girl with the kite. It was sweet Emily. While I was happy I found what I was initially looking for, I knew in my heart it wasn't Emily I was supposed to find, it was 'Cheryl'. Emily was the one who led me to 'the one' destined to be our daughter.



As I was writing this post, I noticed the date on the scanned pictures; the date this all took place; Aug 22, 2008.

Sophie's given birthdate is August 24th.

No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined the things that God has prepared for those who love him. 1 Corinthians 2:9

God is good!