THE KURTZ FAMILY........OUR ADOPTION JOURNEY

August 28,2007.

Well, we are sitting in the Toronto airport, and Deb says she has butterflies. I’m not sure if it’s butterflies about the travel or butterflies about finally going to get our girls.
It’s amazing to think that tomorrow (Wednesday) we will be in Addis and on Thursday we’ll finally meet Denaye and Maya . We are so excited about this final step which really is the first step of the rest of our lives.
I was looking over the list of Amharic words we were given so we can communicate with the girls. The word that leapt out for me was "konjoi" which means "beautiful". I can’t wait to hold them and tell them how beautiful they are, and how much we love them.
I don’t feel butterflies, right now I have just a sense of calm that this is exactly what we’re supposed to be doing at this time in our lives. I know there are going to be lots of adjustments ahead but we’re game!!
Even though we’ve had a crazy couple of months of mini-crises leading up to this, God has been good to us. We feel so blessed!!
And whatever challenges are ahead, we’ll face them the way we always have....side-by-side....hand-in-hand...Mom & Dad...sons AND daughters...with His hand in ours!!
LIFE IS GOOD!! More thoughts later.

Rod