Homecoming

 Today the world makes a little more sense than it did yesterday.  Wounds are healing.  Relationships are being restored.  We have been on a 19 month journey that was largely characterized by struggle and dissapointment.  We were contacted in June of 2010 and asked if we would take in an infant who was the biological sybling of the three children that we had adopted in 2008.  We originally thought of adopting only one child.  We thought that we would take two if there was a sibling set that needed to stay together.  We were put to the test when we were presented with three, a girl and two little boys.  We said yes to them, so how could we say no to this little boy who needs his family.  So we said yes with the expectation that he would be with us within weeks, if not days.  Weeks and weeks passed.  we started measuring time in seasons.  "Maybe he will be with us for Thanksgiving...Chirstmas...Easter.  Certainly he will be with us by the one-year mark of them contacting us about him.  It was not to be.  We jumped through every regulatory hoop, met every requirement, took the necessary training and still he was not with us...Unitl today.

Diane in an Arizona government office ready to
Take Mr. Man home

A ride to the airport begins the next chapter of
our life

Eli arrived Home about 3 am after several hours of travel
capped off with a drive through a hefty snow storm

Together at last