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Awile back on the Russian forum there was a forum aobut coincidences in your adoption journey. For instance for me, my little Polish darling, has the same birthday as my oldest bio sone. (seven years apart)
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We're not into coincidences, but have clearly seen God's hand in many instances. The first was on May 10th, 2007. The day started as any other May 10th, which is a dreaded day for us. Later that afternoon my husband's cel phone rang and a few seconds later I overheard a few key phrases . . . "Where are they?" "How old are they?" We received the referral for our sons on the anniversary of our first daughter's death. Beauty for ashes, indeed.
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We're not into coincidences, but have clearly seen God's hand in many instances. The first was on May 10th, 2007. The day started as any other May 10th, which is a dreaded day for us. Later that afternoon my husband's cel phone rang and a few seconds later I overheard a few key phrases . . . "Where are they?" "How old are they?" We received the referral for our sons on the anniversary of our first daughter's death. Beauty for ashes, indeed.
We're not into coincidences, but have clearly seen God's hand in many instances. The first was on May 10th, 2007. The day started as any other May 10th, which is a dreaded day for us. Later that afternoon my husband's cel phone rang and a few seconds later I overheard a few key phrases . . . "Where are they?" "How old are they?" We received the referral for our sons on the anniversary of our first daughter's death. Beauty for ashes, indeed.
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For my Russian daughter we moved to a new town very close to a hospital that specialized in her condition on the day she was born. It was ten months later that we got her, but we had not sold our house, but since we were in the middle of the adoption we did not try to update our homestudy, we would have had to start all over. So we left the old address and put the move in our first post placement. Anyway, the fact that we could not sell the stupid house meant that when we stood in court and they read off the address and litteraly asked us "is this your house" We could say yes without lying. The house closed on her first birthday. I too beleive that they are not co-incidences but Godincidences.
My husband and I went to our first Polish adoption picnic when we were just beginning to think about adoption and met a couple we hadn't seen in 15 years. They were single back then, not even dating. Now they are married with three kids from Poland. The second amazing experience -- we were talking with a mom whose kids were just adopted from Poland last fall. She was sharing her experience with us, and we discovered that her husband had been on the same study abroad program in Poland that my husband attended -- only they were there about five years apart. So we feel like we are being led on this journey!
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My son's TPR hearing occurred on our 1st, non-adoption related, trip to Poland. We were just around the corner from the court house.My son and I have the same eye condition. Probably less coincidence than part of the matching process, though.On the day my son was born, I wrote in my journal "My world has changed" and nothing else. My husband and I were on a remote marine research island at the time, and we returned with our son almost 6 years later. A storm prevented us from leaving the island, so we ended up spending his 6th birthday there, rather than at home at his birthday party. He turned to me at breakfast and said "I know this place, don't I?" I'm not a big divine orchestration fan, but that particular incident could convert me.
No coincidences yet...I think our kids look like us. My oldest has my exact color eyes and our youngest two have my husband's eye color. HYBELL---that is the coolest journal entry story I have ever heard!I do know God picked these children just for us, they have adjusted into our family with almost effortlessly...it was like God completely prepared our hearts as well as theirs...actually I think that God did a better job on their hearts because sometimes I think I am going to lose my mind if one more little boy pees on the toilet seat!But I digress!
Not sure I would call them coincidences but here are some things we will never forget. 1) I spent Sunday afternoon at Our Lady of Czestochowa US National Shrine for their annual Polish Festival -- I hadn't thought much about a referral because it had been so long. After being surrounded by Polish culture, we started thinking about it again. 2) On Monday at lunch I came home to eat (which I NEVER do) and received a call with a job offer to move closer to family -- went back to work, and arrived home early again, when an off campus visit was cancelled. The phone rang again with the referral of our girls. 3) It was a year to the day that our paperwork arrived in Poland. 4) Our girls birthdays are on Christmas. 5) Our final court day was on St.Valentine's Day.:love: