As most of you know, our girls were adopted this year (August 1, 2013). Hazel Kate and Kellie Caroline are biological sisters that came to us last year. It was totally God's work that put us all together! It all came together through a friend of a friend and it was.a.perfect.fit! Kellie came to live with us first during June, when she was 4 years old. We met her on Father's Day of last year and we fell in love with her the moment we saw her. She was spunky and talkative and SO.MUCH.FUN! She had been through SO MUCH and she didn't show it at all! In the first few moments of meeting her, she grabbed my hand and called me Mommy! I knew in that moment that we needed each other! She is a handful but she's so loving and sweet and she will keep you in stitches! Everyone that meets her adores her as much as we do! Kellie has gone through more in her 6 years than most adults ever do but I truly believe that God has HUGE plans for her life! I can't wait to see what her future holds because I believe it will be BIG!
Hazel has had quite a different road than her sister. Hazel was raised by her paternal great-grandparents and was with them for most of her life. Hazel did not come and live with us until October of last year (4 months after her sister). The great-grandparents were not in good health and decided that it would be best for her to live with us and be raised with her sister. We were TOTALLY ON BOARD! Hazel is THE MOST AFFECTIONATE CHILD in the world! No Lie! She will drive you nuts with the hugs! ha! She is quiet (sometimes too much so), loving and seriously SO sweet! She is such a devoted kid and once she loves you, she will love you forever! She is also one of the bravest kids I've met. She moved in to our house (from a home she had known her entire life) and handled it like a champ! I'm not going to lie and say it was rainbows and unicorns for everyone but when I look back on it, she was amazing! She had SO MUCH to get accustomed to. Not only did she have a new family in a new city, but she also was living with a sibling again, AND she started a new school! I could cry just typing all of this because she was SO BRAVE! At my age, I cannot imagine being put through something like that and the fact that BOTH of my children handled it as they did makes them a heck of a lot tougher than me!
Mommyhood is a crazy place! It's everything and more than I ever imagined! It's amazing to love someone the way that I love these 2 girls! Adopting older children was always scary to me. I believed that you needed to adopt them as babies so that you could bond with them. I.WAS.WRONG! Nothing could be farther from the truth! I can't imagine being any closer to these girls! They are my world and have been since day 1. I'm their mommy and NOTHING will change that!
While mommyhood is great, it's also MUCH harder than I thought it would be. I was THE perfect mom BEFORE I became a mom! ha! I had ALL the answers before these 2 came along! Now, I just muddle my way through and PRAY that I'm doing the right things! I mess up daily.... but each day I have ONE goal! My daily goal is for these girls to know how loved they are! I want them to know how long their dad and I wanted them and how hard we prayed for them and that they are our dreams come true! As long as they KNOW AND BELIEVE that, then I feel successful!
I'm going to use this blog as a way to document our lives. Facebook and Instagram are great but I just think my family deserves more memories than just that! Whether or not anyone reads this is irrelevant. As long as my girls can look back at it and see their little lives, then I will try my hardest to keep it up to date. They deserve that!
Wish me luck!
Hazel Kate, 7 years old Kellie Caroline, 6 years old
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