Merry Christmas "Faithie"







Yesterday the boys and I were out doing some Christmas shopping and this beautiful song came on the radio. It was the first time I had heard it and the lyrics just gripped my heart. Each of us miss Faith this Christmas and wish she could be here with us. It is hard to think of her spending this Christmas so far away from home...because to us, she is already our daughter and Kody and Tyler's sister. We hung one more stocking this year and it gives us hope that she will be home soon. And maybe next Christmas she will be here to decorate the tree, open the advent bags, fight over who gets to blow out the candles on the wreath and eat one too many peanut butter balls....we pray it with all our hearts.

Every Christmas we buy an ornament for each of the children that symbolizes their year. This year Kody is getting a baseball ornament and Tyler's is a smore snowman with a "little soft, fluffy, cute doggy". I found the perfect ornament for Faith at Megan's Gifts that Give earlier this month. It is a beautiful beaded angel ornament made by women of the Maasai tribes in East Africa and provides these women with the income to bring life and hope to their families. http://www.wildhopeinternational.org/Welcome.html
I used a piece of ribbon from my wedding bouquet to make a hanger for the ornament. Every Christmas as we pull out the kid's ornaments we relive the memories associated with each one. I can't wait to tell her the story of our wait for her each year as we pull out this ornament...of the beautiful women who made it and of how she has been a part of our family from the moment her mommy and daddy met.

We also bought her a christmas present...I just couldn't resist this one. It's the toddler princess Tiana. Kody asked why we were going to buy her a christmas present when she wasn't going to be there. "Because when she comes home we want her room to be full of her things so she knows that she belongs here," I told him. "Okay," Kody replied, "when Faithie comes home I am going to give her lots and lots of kisses and hugs." "Her name is Faif," came Tyler's response. "Well, I call her Faithie," said Kody.

Merry Christmas, Faithie....we can't wait for you to come home!

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