I just loved everything about it!
After the ceremony we went to Chuck E Cheese. Yes folks, you heard right. I did in fact say we went to good ol' Chucks for our ADay partay! But as my husband so rightly pointed out when I was blathering on and on about how I should be making everything, or that we should go to a nice sit down place. He said what would the kids like? He was quite right, and no mess either!! I have just seen God at every step along our adoption and fostering path.
For instance, the sweet gal who brought our cake out from the back room at Chuck's, she was asking me who was doing the adopting and who got adopted. She was a very young gal, maybe 19 or 20. I just assumed she was naturally curious about all of our big group so I "oh I am the Mom, and we just adopted that little princess over there." motioning towards Lil Missy. "oh" says the young gal, "I was in foster care too, but I didn't get adopted. That is good she did though." I went on to tell her that she is never to old to have a family to go to, and that she needs a place especially with holidays around the corner. She mentioned that sometimes she goes back to her last foster home to visit for the holidays. She said she "aged out" and was too old for a family. Of all the places we could have gone that night, and of all the workers who worker there she was the one laid before us. I will never know why exactly she was there, but I do think that sometimes instances like that are just what we need at that moment. Just little messages of encouragement to remind us to keep going on.
I was also surprised by my own mother that weekend. I had absolutely NO IDEA that she was coming, but wouldn't you know, I was getting ready, just brushing my teeth and there she was. She arrived with my little sister. I was utterly and totally shocked. I mean I had just texted her and we were saying how it stunk that her and Dad would miss it, yada yada yada. but she pulled a big one over on me! And for her and sis, that is hard! I was so overcome I just bawled, screamed and bawled.
Other family came in too. My Aunt, who has also adopted two kiddos, and my Uncle- Lil Missy's grandpa, my great grama, and then we had all of our local family and friend. To say we really felt supported, is just, well it was just amazing.
