We leave in the morning!

I cannot believe our trip is here! I’ve spent all yesterday & today obtaining & packing our items for the children at the Compassion Center & our things for the trip. My son’s dad just dropped him off & now he is packing…finally! I am not allowed to pack for him! Unfortunately the dad rushed the other 4 kiddos off to the girlfriend’s so I had about a whole 5 minutes with them even though I won’t see them for 2 whole weeks! Heartbreaking & maddening but I have to focus on he positive!

So here it is…we are going to get to meet Joseph! I cannot even believe it! So I’m pretty sure I said this already but our family started sponsoring Joseph back in my former lifetime when I was living in my dream house in Denver with my two oldest boys. Before I began homeschooling. Before we moved to Naples. Before my husband at the time, dad to my five kiddos, experienced some kind of mid life crisis that resulted in him dropping out of his career, acquiring a girlfriend & moving his family of 7 from a 7 bedroom house to a 3 bedroom apartment. Before I resumed practicing law. Before I learned to be independent & fight for my kids to have the right values. Before my kids’ dad told me he wasn’t going to support Joseph anymore & I took it on myself along with supporting my five kids singlehandedly without a dose of alimony, because I believe in commitment & believe in an infinite universe that provides what we need when we have good intentions and work hard.

Tangent or background? I guess if you are still reading you found it to be an acceptable form of one or the other.

So here is Joseph through the years. He has a file along with my 5 babies & it is stuffed with all the precious letters he’s written us through the last 12 years!

So my friend Amy has recommended I read Too Small to Ignore by Wess Stafford who began Compassion. I was inspired to sponsor a child and wanted someone who my oldest son could grow up with. Joseph was 4, one year older than Q at the time. Now they are 14 & 15! I am so excited for them to meet! I think it will be so eye opening for my Q who is growing up here in our Naples bubble. And a good time for us as mom and son. He will miss two weeks of school but all of his teachers recognize that this is going to be a true education.