Packing, Planning and Praying

With all of the running around buying last minute items, checking documents and packing, its easy to forget that in seven days we will meet our son for the first time.

Our lives have been hectic during the past several weeks as you might imagine. But many of the days have been filled with happy moments.

The nursery is almost complete. Claudia spent this past weekend painting the monogram on the wall. We had a wonderful, humbling turnout during our Chick-Fil-A Help Bring Little Baby Forrester Home fund raising event. It was so amazing to see all of our friends, family, coworkers and clients all come out to support us. It was also heart warming to have complete strangers make donations to our adoption. We had an hour long conference call with our social worker to discuss final trip preparations and review what will happen during the trip.

We are so excited and can't wait to meet Little Baby Forrester.

But while we are caught up in the moment of excitement and planning, its easy to forget that right now there is a wonderful foster mother lovingly providing all of our child's daily needs.

What is going through her mind, knowing our gotcha day is a week away? How is she preparing for the transition? Is she savoring the moments more knowing that soon they will end?

For most of our son's life, she has been his caretaker.Bathing him. Feeding him. She knows him better than anyone else at this point. She made note that he enjoys laying in the sun and his favorite color is red.

For her, our gotcha day is a letting go day. As suddenly and permanently as our lives will change with him in our lives, her life will change without him and we will likely not have a chance to ever know her or thank her personally.

For this reason, we ask that you pray for us as we make our final preparations but also please pray for the foster mother and Little Baby Forrester and their "letting go day." May this transition be easy for everyone.