Extended family

Today,

I don't know what it is about today -

but it's a "downer" kinda day. 

maybe I'm getting ready for our year anniversary 

of meeting our sweet boys for the first time.

Which is beautiful on one end 

and just gut wrenching on the other end.

We're coming up on a year that we 

heard that their birthfather "passed" court.

Which means he had to 

AGAIN -

humble himself and admit that he couldn't care for them -

and he would not be taking them 

home but leave them  

AGAIN

to be adopted to strangers from America.

I can't imagine how he did that 

AGAIN!

I mean,

how he must have struggled,

after losing his wife -

and then feeling that he couldn't 

 care for his children.

All I know about this man his name,

and what Donovan has told me.

We didn't get to meet him on either of our trips to Ethiopia,

but I do know that 

Donovan loves his dad very much,

and has fun stories 

of their four years together. 

His father taught him manners 

and how to be kind to others. 

I am sooo thankful that he can cherish those memories.

I pray they stay with him!

and I pray that some day we will

meet our 

extended Ethiopian family!