An Advent Quiet day reflection
(from last January) It is December 21 and one year ago on the 29th, we boarded the first of four planes that would take us to this sweet and fiesty little girl! I absolutely can.not.believe it's been nearly a year. We will celebrate our family day on December 31...that's the day she was placed in our arms and we became forever a family. We are super excited to celebrate Christmas this year, well, I almost wasn't...let me tell you about it. Remembering is a strange thing. I've been pretty emotional this Christmas season so far, just thinking a lot about where we were this time last year and how sad we were that we would not have our girl home for Christmas. It was all I could think about. Literally. I had even concocted a plan that I would fly to Taiwan and stay there until all the court stuff was worked out so I could be with her. I just could not wait to get my hands on her. We had known about Amber Joy and seen photos and even videos of her for e