Ready to be Together as Family

A year has almost gone. Seasons have come and gone, and life moves on...this sounds like a start to a really bad poem, but that is kind of where we are at right now. Ready to be together.

Just ready to do life together. Play together. Eat together. Go on walks together. Not feel the sting when around other children knowing a little girl halfway across the world is waiting, even though she may not even understand.

F-A-M-I-L-Y.

Oh, and you definitely need to know about our adoption progress...

We recently realized we have been saying A's name wrong for the past year. Oh yes, we sure have. Nice parents, eh? We received a snippet of old video of A, and heard her name being said, and our mispronunciation began to sink in. A little comical, really. I thought for a minute we may just let it slide...
until Mr. Fly started correcting me when I was saying A's name the not so right way. So that was that. See us for corrective measures if you so wish. I think we got it this time!

You heard it first (well, close to the first anyway)--- We can now say our sweet girl's name properly. Adoption progress, right? That is as good as it gets, for now.

In rookie fashion, I have started to try to intentionally enjoy life, and to allow myself to truly soak up the beauty of God's seasons, instead of run, run, run from one activity to the next. Like for starters, I bought apple cider at Trader Joe's thinking that it was just going to make Fall dance in our house. It kind of did---good stuff. I also made an apple crisp, which was not all that tasty. My advice to you? Don't use outdated Crisco. Do yourself a favor, and shell out the extra few dollars to get a new can. Thank me later. Mr. Fly said it was yummy, but he is a strange kind of nice.

Anyway, Saturday night, I got the bright idea to go take fall pictures in a local park while Mr. Fly was working. I drove to the park on the east side of town to realize that the sun actually sets in the west, and my glowing natural light that I was wanting was no where to be found. It looked more like dusk. Not about to give up, I gave it my best shot, and turned my aperture or shutter speed (whatever you call it) way down, like way down. I just wanted some light, people. It didn't really work. I left with just a few dark and dreary fall with-a-hint-of-blur pictures. I would have taken more, but it came to my realization that I only brought my mostly full SD card with me. Pro move.

I left feeling okay ...I tried. I even attempted driving quick but oh, so cautious speeds across town to see if I could find some tree with the sun's glow on it, but alas, the sun had set.

Effort is worth everything in my book..

Secretly, I blame my Herculean effort to get an awesome picture on Don Angle, and his recent blog posts of nature. Help, Don! It is clear I just new a few quick basics to at least just get me started on the right side of town. Oh, and was that aperture or shutter speed I was wanting?

Check out Don's recent work...
 http://www.donanglephotography.com/blog-3/

I imagine you all would just love me to share my artsy photos of the dusky trees I captured. If my camera card was not still in our car, I would consider sharing immediately. I guess you will just have to wait for now.

If you think of it this week, please pray with us that our approval comes very soon.

We ache for the moments when I won't need to race across the wrong side of town to take inspiring pictures. How wonderful it will be when we can take pictures of our girl, and show her how precious she is in the Lord's sight. In His time.