Going to Romania

Nineteen years ago began an adventure for our family that has only just begun. We had four sons, and had been talking about adopting a daughter for at least a couple of years. Through a series of miracles that I won't go into now, Jane left for Romania to try to find a girl to adopt. The communist dictator had recently been overthrown and the outside world discovered that there were a lot of children in orphanages that needed homes.

I remained at home to continue working and take care of our four sons, with the help of my wonderful Mother in law. I will try to share details here later, but for now I will just say that six weeks later, the boys and I picked up Jane and our new daughter at the Kansas City airport. As I recall, it was a Saturday, and the next day was Fathers day. What a blessing Carri has been to our family.

Jump ahead nineteen years. Ninel, is a man who along with his Mother helped Jane through the adoption process and they have been telling us for nineteen years that we should bring Carri back to visit Romania. We always said that someday we would, but it was always someday. I think it was about a year ago, we felt like now is that "someday" and started making plans to go. The passports are all in order, the plane tickets have been purchased, and Jane, Carri and I will be flying out of Wichita for Bucharest, Romania on Thursday, August 5. We are so excited, are just praising the Lord for this opportunity.