Orphanage Visit with Foster Mom – Special moment in time…

We arrived at the orphanage and received a briefing from the orphanage director. We were allowed to ask questions and found out that we were the first ones to ever come to the orphanage. In the past, they just always say “No” – feel it is too hard on the kids and to hard on the orphanage workers or foster families. Morgan, our trip coordinator, feels this is very important not only for the kids, new parents but also for the orphanage – feels it is important to show them this is much more then us just getting a new baby girl – that this is a special event and it is very important to all parties involved to just understand each other. We found out that the foster parents find out only 24 hours before we got little Sadie that they need to bring her to the orphanage so she can go to a new family. We also found out that most of the foster parents were only called about an hour before we arrived today…!!! Sadie’s foster mom was able to come. We were not sure about why her foster dad was not able to come – probably working. She was a very nice lady… Sadie recognized her right away. They rubbed noises and both smiled. You could tell that her foster mom was sad for her “lose” but happy for the life that Sadie will get. She did not really cry… and this made it a lot easier on all of us. It was very hard – to think this woman took Sadie in at two days old and raised her knowing that she would have to give her up. She did a GREAT job! It was interesting when Sadie first went to her - she smiled. They rubbed noises and Sadie’s foster mom spoke a few words to her. After they just looked at each other for a little while, Sadie went back to Heidi. She really did not cry – it really seamed to set her little heart at ease with the whole thing. It was such a neat experience – I really cannot explain. It was another sad, happy, upsetting, scary, uneasy and most importantly really calming moment all at the same time. I know this sounds hard to believe but it was. Sadie little heart and soul seam to just “Take a deep breath…” and it really seam to calm her down. It was really a very special time. My heart stopped a few times, just thinking of how this whole thing could come together ½ a world apart. That a little baby girl could be born, dropped off at an orphanage, raised by a family for 9 months and then we get blessed by welcoming her into our family… a moment I will never forget. It is a moment where you really sit back and think of how this one little life has changed so many people and how God made this one little life – and she is very special… just like we all are very special and put here by God for a reason… WOW – what do you say… Sadie is a special girl as her foster mom is a very special lady to do what she did. It was an amazing moment in time that I will never forget.