Holiday Reflection

This holiday season was a wonderful one.  We were able to spend time with a lot of family and had a great time.  For the first time since my brother had been married, all of my family was able to be together on Christmas day.  This made for a great celebration.  All of the cousins, aunts and uncles got along swimmingly.

During this time I couldn't help but reflect upon what future holidays might look like and how our family might be different.  One of the places that this struck me was as we hung our stockings.  We are lucky to have two gorgeous sets of hand made stockings.

We have one set made by Jenn's dad and grandmother that are needlepoint.

The other set was made by my mom and my grandmother that they knit.

It occurred to me that neither of these are quick creations.  Normally you can give about 9 months' notice and if it isn't quite ready for the first Christmas, the newborn would never know.  We, on the other hand, will likely only have a few months' notice and on top of it we will need two instead of just one. Maybe we need to put in an order now.

The question of time once again came up.  As I thought about what our future family might look like, I wondered when it might come to reality.  Could it be for next Christmas, probably not.  Maybe two Christmases away, still not likely.  In three Christmases this could be.  How about four, most likely yes by this point.

We have not heard anything new from ICAB.  Most recently we have been told it would be 3 years from now, 2 if things go quickly.  That could be a long wait.  We know that this is in God's hands though and his timing will be perfect.