Today, I miss Africa.
I miss Sanyu.
The babies.
I just want to hug and kiss and love on them all. Whether or not they are to be mine. Whisper in their ears that they are loved. And beautiful. So very beautiful.
I want to be walking the dusty streets of Kampala with Em by my side. Certain they think we're locals.
I want to be in Ssenge.
Watching the boys play football in the yard.
Helping plant hundreds and hundreds of little trees.
Hot. Tired. Thirsty.
But happy...
...so so very happy.
{{It's the little things.}}
I want to ride a boda boda again. Hair in the wind. Drinking in the sights.
I want to be in a country I love. A country that has affected me. That is in my blood.
I want to hug Abbey and Jess and tell them how much I look up to them for what they are doing.
Because really, they are amazing. And they are changing the world.
I want to take pictures that show the beauty that is Uganda. The pearl of Africa.
I want to go to the Nile. and take even more pictures. Document it all.
I want to be immersed in the country that is my baby's homeland.
I want to discover as much as I can about my baby's heritage and the history of Uganda.
I want to sit in the dusk of the evening and listen to the boys band play their trumpets.
Amazed at their smiles. Their life. Their happiness.
I want to truly find an appreciation for matoke. And how to make it for my little one.
I want to sleep under a mosquito net at night...
...and listen to the gonging of the bells in the early morning.
My heart is not here today. It is there.
I am hopeful.
Patient.
Waiting...
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- Abi Q
- My husband man and I currently live in a snug little apartment in the east bay with our pup, Lexi Louanne and little man, Finley. We like coffee, we like pie, we like desert at three in the morning and for breakfast too... that is why we're perfect together. ..enjoy our story..
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Who we are:
My husband man and I currently live in a snug little apartment in the east bay with our two pups, Lexi Louanne and Mr Mogley Winchester. We like coffee, we like pie, we like desert at three in the morning and for breakfast too... that is why we're perfect together... {be warned: I ramble sometimes } ...during the summer last June husband man and I embarked on a journey to Kampala, Uganda and worked at an orphanage while there. We held the babies, bathed the babies, played with the babies...and promptly fell in love..... since then we have been preparing to become parents to a little one, and just this past week we submitted our application to adopt a baby! {or shall I say toddler?} We have no idea if it'll be a boy or a girl, or what age our baby will be... but as frustrating as it is, it is half the fun as well... we're figuring out names for both, I'm decorating two kinds of baby rooms in my head, and pretty much obsessing over all things baby...that is why I have this blog. An open journal for me to write down all my thoughts, pretty ramblings, letters to our lovely baby as we wait, and document all the things I will dress baby in and buy baby when I finally hold him/her in my arms.. ..enjoy our story..
Timeline to baby
10.25.09 We tell our parents we're adopting
10.31.09 We send off our home study application & I contact Sanyu to be put on the waiting list
11.01.09 Even though we were going to wait to tell the rest the family, I can't help it and we announce it to everyone.
11.16.09 I drive to agency to pick up our home study paperwork because I can't wait even an extra day
12.15.09 We finish all our paperwork and mail it off
01.05.10 Our first meeting with our social worker
01.14.10 Our second meeting with our social worker
01.22.10 Find out from Sanyu we're #3 on the waiting list!
03.19.10 We getting a letter from Sanyu saying that American's aren't being matched with children until issue with US and Uganda is cleared up.
04.05.10 We send off I600a form to government, believing God that we are supposed to adopt from Uganda still
04.15.10 Tax day! We get good news in the mail, our home study is done. Now.. just waiting on our final fingerprinting appointment!
04.16.10 Email from our agency with a link to a US government website & it looks like things may finally be clearing up...
05.18.10 We hear of other orphanages in Uganda that have children available for adoption! Grandpa goes to go check them out.
05.20.10 We find out about a new lawyer who we haven't heard of before. I contact people who have worked closely with her. They all rave about how amazing she is. I email her.
06.10.10 Our lawyer tells us she has matched two families yesterday, and will do the same for us if we want her to.
06.22.10 I600a fingerprinting. We are so close to being done on the US side I can feel it
06.29.10 I mail our first packet off to Uganda so they can start getting our paperwork ready in Africa. Now, all we need is a baby.
07.19.10 The two babies we thought might be ours fell through, our lawyers start to search for other orphanages that might have available children.
07.22.10 We get word that our lawyer will be traveling 500 km on the 27th to speak to a new children's home in search of our baby!
08.01.10 We hear that they have found us two little boys. We just have to wait on files and then we have to decide which baby we want.
08.11.10 11:25pm We get the letter we have been waiting for. We have a son!
09.14.10 The trip to get our son begins. Tomorrow we shall have pictures finally!
09.15.10 Godfrey brings our baby to live with his family in Kampala until we come for court.
09.17.10 We get a picture of our sweet little man. I cry hysterically in a gas station lot on I5. You are perfect in every way.
09.30.10 We have a court date! Three weeks from today you will be in our arms. Planning. Packing. Crying. Can't believe it's finally happening.
10.17.10 We leave for Africa!
10.19.10 We meet Finley.
10.20.10 We travel to Mbarara for court.
10.21.10 We have our court hearing and are granted guardianship the same day!
11.04.10 Ryan goes back home to work.
11.08.10 Visa appointment.
11.12.10 We get our Visa!
11.14.10 We come home!!!!
10.03.11 Finley is 100%, officially ours.
2 comments:
wow, i recently found your blog from following your mom's. i think it is really neat that you write letters to your son/daughter. i have never heard or thought of that until my best friend got pregnant a year ago and began writing letters to her child. i think it is the neatest thing. your child will be blessed one day to read them as an adult. praying for your baby to come home.
You paint a picture with your words. I can smell and feel Uganda, You make me want to go there, to experience what you've experienced. I cannot wait to see the photos you will take. . . . and the baby that is yours.
waiting with you.
hugs :) ellie
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