The Year of the Boy
The moment we met
What was different in your life this past year? For me, 2010 was this: only one thing changed but that changed everything.
You know what I mean?
2010 was the year Ephraim joined our family. We picked him up in Ethiopia on February 1st. That’s it. That’s really the only big thing that happened.
But you know what followed that?
No sleep for 9 months.
An incredible amount of love.
Laughter up the wazoo.
The inability to leave the house very often at all without a baby and cereal.
Giving away our dogs because that just wasn’t happening.
Toys all over the floor every single day.
The best kind of cuddles.
I could go on and on.
The boy changed it all. And, I will always thank God for that boy. That exact boy.
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Laurel Feierbach
Laurel has been married to her husband Chris for 3 years. They adopted their first child almost a year ago from Ethiopia and plan to begin the process of adopting through foster care in the next couple of months. Chris is a pastor, and Laurel is a stay-at-home mom. You can follow their story at God Found Us You.
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I can totally relate!
Thank you for sharing this, Laurel. I, too, am thankful for that boy. And for his adoptive parents – two of the greatest people I’ve ever met.
So moving to see it in these words, spelled out this way! Made me smile and cry! So blessed to be a part of this story!
t is so beautiful!!! I am sitting here fighting tears. What a blessed year for you and for all of us!!! God is so good. Ephraim is definitely the love of our lives! Thank you for bringing such blessing to our family!! Love you!
P.S. You are a wonderful writer as well as an amazing mother.
Hi Laurel! I work with your mom, who is wonderful. I have been following Ephraim’s story through your moms stories and pictures. He is an adorable child. You are so lucky to have found each other. I think you and your husband are amazingly brave and wonderful and I think that’s what you must have seen in Ephraim too!
Laurel and Chris – I love how you share the blessing of this life you have chosen. Beautiful writer, beautiful family, beautiful boy, especially. Love, your cousin, Terri