Sometimes you have no idea that you NEED a blessing into it busts into your house like a whirlwind. There are expected blessings and prayed for blessings, but then there are ones you have no idea you are getting. Sixteen years ago today, a blond haired baby girl was born far away from me. I don’t know if she wailed in her first breaths. Maybe she yawned, opened those big blues and looked around only to fall back asleep.
On her first day of life, I was probably getting my oldest off to school and getting ready for teaching 7th grade. I wasn’t aware that God was preparing me for a blessing. It took almost twelve years for me to meet her. She walked into my classroom, head ducked down and barely whispered her name. I recognized the platinum blond hair from her older brother, a former student. She walked in and out of my class for months. I never knew who she would be.
I never knew God ushered my daughter into my classroom. Less than two years later, circumstances like a slow moving hurricane washed over us and God whispered to me that she was going to be our daughter even above our storm. Talk about the dark horse surprise of the decade. Sometimes adoption works like that. Adoption doesn’t work with a plan-most of the time there is no explanation of how you lose your heart to a stranger.
I was so surprised when not only did she melt into our family without much effort but then stole our hearts just as easily as the four children before her.
I love the spontaneous bursts of laughter, your Wolverine costume, plots to cream people with cupcakes, letting a rabbit loose in a brother’s bedroom, luring sharks at the beach, skimming over waves and busting your rear end in the sand, or my girl coming out of the kitchen wearing soccer shorts and cowboy boots. I love my camo-wearing, truck driving, goat dragging, patient little girl who makes us smile and shake our heads.
Happy 16th Birthday Sharkbait. We love you. You have blessed me. You have blessed our family. I love you so much!
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