Little Brothers

It's been over ten months since we started preparing for Zeb's arrival into our family. We've read countless books on adoption, attachment, parenting, older-child adoption, etc etc. We've met with our case worker (a clinical psychotherapist ... that was stressful) and emptied the nitty gritty of our souls for countless hours. We've flown across the globe to meet him, to play with him, to hold him, to tell him that we are his. And, we've prepared in ways that have been a salve for our weary, waiting hearts ... putting the boys' room together. ♥

Awesome feeling to make Zeb's bed with fresh, new linens to match Jack's, put his lovie and donkey on his little pillow, scoot his bed alongside his little brother's, and picture us reading stories in there, rocking in the chair, watching the frogs from the windows, and playing in the tent hidden in the closet.

I cannot wait to tuck him in that first night home.

Until then, we imagine.