We Did It!!!

A year ago yesterday

 our waiting in an ex-soviet apartment building

 finally came to an end

We had been

 waiting for

five

 long

 endless

 days

Waiting to see

 if the four children under our care

were going to have to go

 back to life

 as orphans

We had had them for only

 one week and a day

 

One

 very hard

 terrifying

 week

We had been waiting

for them in particular

 for four

extremely busy

long months

Wanting to adopt

 for twenty years

Waiting for God

 to say

 it was time

Time to grow our family

Time to love some more kids

Time to take them in our arms and into our hearts

Time to call them orphans no more

Time to give them the honour of being called

 Sons and Daughters

A year ago

 a judge decreed

 that these children

 could have

 a forever family

We could become...

OUR FAMILY