Sisters
When we began to pursue Eliana, Kevin and I both could not shake the idea that somehow this little girl was going to be a part of Faith's healing and Faith would do the same for her. Not something that would happen instantaneous but over their lifetime together being sisters. It is a crazy idea, really, to take a little girl from Ethiopia and then another little girl from China and make them sisters in an American family. And then to have them come all mixed up and backwards. The youngest child arrived first to stake her claim on her family and then the older sister arrived two years later. We knew upsetting birth order could be difficult. Our agency required us to read and read and read about how terribly awful this could all turn out for our family. But we truly didn't think it was going to be that big of a deal. Faith would still be the baby and the boys would still be the oldest. We would just be inserting someone in the hole between Tyler and Faith. If anyone