Our Last Night as a Family of Three....

Ok family and friends, panic has officially set in. Tomorrow is Kendall Day !!! Our whole reason for being here. She is our whole reason for this years-long journey !!! And while David has been panicking for many, many months now, my very first "panicky" feelings about meeting Kendall occurred tonight at Chili's, of all places. Like heart-racing, shallow breathing panic..........but, like I said before, this is all on the inside. I was mostly calm-looking on the outside.

What if Kendall freaks out when she sees us? What if she hates us? What if she screams for hours or days? What if she tries to run away or shuts down emotionally????? What if Olivia freaks out? I know these are all worst case scenarios, but they have happened to some of our IA and Taiwan IA friends. Not all the time, but sometimes the transition has been super hard. However, up until this moment, everything has happened in the time it was supposed to happen, everything has led to this moment for a reason, and the reason has been this journey to Kendall.

So tomorrow is our 2nd Gotcha Day. God, was it hard the 1st time with Olivia. Not so terribly hard for her because she was so young, but hard for us because we TOTALLY had no idea what to expect or even what to do with a 10 month old baby. And it was hard emotionally for us because there was a lot of emotional drama at Chung Yi. There were a lot of tears and it was hard. Who knows what tomorrow will bring. So, I'm asking for your thoughts and prayers that everything goes smooth for Kendall and Olivia; and that they begin to bond soon and that Kendall's transition is easy on both her and Olivia. As the parents, we can deal with whatever happens or gets thrown at us, I just want things to be smooth and happy and non-traumatic for both of the girls.

Our family of three. Tomorrow we will be four. By the way, Olivia is holding her special bunny that was sent to her by us in a care package when she was 4 months old. It has been glued to her side since then. She is also holding a little white winged dragon that Grampie sent her in the mail. Of all they critters she could have brought to Taiwan, these were the only two she wanted with her. 7/7/2012

 

Mommy and Olivia at breakfast on 7/6/2012.

 

Mommy and Olivia walking down Guangfu S. Road on 7/7/2012

 

We're requesting your prayers for a good day tomorrow and for peace and happiness for all of us, but especially for Kendall and Olivia.

 

Ai ni. Ziajian.

 

Sheryl

 

 

 

 

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