Cars and Rice

There are many things in life that I knowingly take for granted.  Food, clean water, healthy relationships, heat, cars, savings in the bank, electricity, ect, ect.  

Then there are things that I never knew I took for granted.

Knowing A loves making crafts and coloring.  Knowing M loves dressing up and singing.  Knowing my girls favorite colors.  Foods they love.  Foods that causes there noses to wrinkle as they eat.  Knowing what makes them laugh the hardest and what makes their little hearts ache.  

I never knew that I took that knowledge for granted.  It was only when week after week, month after month I didn't have that knowledge about my son that I became incredibly aware of the gift of knowledge that I do have and the ache that lack of knowledge can bring.  

In the past year we have learned about U's past and when he learned to walk.  For a year that is all we have known.  There is not a day that goes by that I don't wonder everything there is for a mother to long to know about her child.  This past week that longing was met with some answers.  Thank you Jesus!!  Happy tears and a family dance party followed the news!

U loves to play with cars.  He loves rice.  He loves to eat and eat and eat.  He cries a lot and smiles a lot.  He sleeps wonderfully through the night.  He is described as boisterous and smily.  

Dreaming and praying for the day we can play cars together and have a big bowl of rice at our kitchen table with all five of us!