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I sold her adorable white wicker chairs and table, the beauti-ful hand-painted china. I sold the fake little tea party snacks that looked so real I wanted to eat them. I sold every last piece I had stored for years—just so I could buy my husband a surprise Christmas present with-out the price appearing on our credit card bill.
Now I don’t even remember what I bought him. But I do remember the early December morning when I said good-bye to “Samantha.”
My husband, Mark, had purchased this American Girl doll and her birthday collection at a fund-raising auction. It seemed a bit extravagant, since we had three small boys and no girl in sight. But that didn’t seem to matter once he brought Samantha home.
My mom and I gleefully set up her chairs and table in my dining room. We displayed the plates and glasses just so. We fussed over Samantha’s hair and smoothed the wrinkles from her dress. We giggled like schoolgirls before we packed it all up. Then I hid the doll in a back closet, beyond the reach of prying toddler hands.
Mother of Boys. Two years later, after my doctor confirmed that…
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What a beautiful story!!
Your story is one that my husband & I can relate to.
For many, many years we prayed for our family to begin.
With the help of an infertility specialist & medication, I conceived & carried a child for five months. Just before my husband & I attended our Marriage Encounter (ME) Weekend, in Nov. of 1983, we “lost” our child.
We were beinning to drift apart, something that can happen often with a loss that great.
We were encouraged to attend that Marr, Enc. Weekend (anyways) by our Marr. Enc sponsor couple. We did attend that Marr. Enc. Weekend & much to our surprise, we received a valuable, daily tool that Weekend that would forever chg. how we communicated & still use it to this day. Praying together & dialogue. We were living like singles before our ME Weekend, although we deeply loved each other.
It became very clear to us during that Weekend and the year after the ME Weekend that we were making our plans for a family without listening completely to Christ quietly speaking His will to us (during those earlier 10 yrs). We decided to quit the treatments & after much prayer & thought, we placed our names for adoption at a local Catholic Charities.
We now have a beautiful, adopted 22 yr. old daughter named “Carissa” (means ‘beloved’). We could not love any child more than we love Carissa. She is the child we dreamed, hoped, & prayed for and we feel we should have listened more closely to Christ (with our hearts), we would have realized what plans He had to us.