The Waiting is the Hardest Part:{Free-Printable}

   I decided to design this printable because it really depicts how I have been feeling lately.  Those that follow my blog know that I have been planning an adoption party.  It’s one that I have dreamed of for so long, yet we still have no date set for it.  There is one simple reason for this: a single piece of paper.  The adoption I am referring to is the adoption of my foster child.  She is my only child, and I have always treated her as my own, even if she wasn’t legally mine - yet.   She came to us when she was only a few months old and we are the only family that she can really remember.  We are finally almost in the home stretch where we can start the adoption, but are just waiting for one little piece of the puzzle to be signed.  It’s something that seems so simple to me and is the only thing standing in the way.  All parties are in agreement of her adoption by us, but due to state-to-state issues that I will never understand, we are having a hard time getting some very important paperwork signed  that will let us proceed. 

   I suppose this story would be so much cooler if I talked about all the many obstacles I have had to overcome in awaiting this adoption.  But it was never like that.  Well, maybe a little.  From the beginning many people said not to get attached and to “guard my heart”.  Several people said she would most likely go back to her birthparents. But from the very beginning, I felt God telling me that she was our child, granted to us from the Lord, knowing that we were unable to have children of our own.   I have since met her birthmother and she has given me her blessing and I am truly thankful for the strength that she had to make that decision and to entrust me with her daughter.   I have not met her birthfather, but all sources indicate his “blessing”.   The adoption is inevitable, but quite frankly the waiting is making me absolutely crazy.   It really is the hardest part.  I know someday I will look back and laugh on these times, I just hope it’s someday really soon.

   So I decided to put my feelings to work in art.  From a Tom Petty favorite “The Waiting is the Hardest Part”.  For me it truly is.

   Printable links sized 11x14 above the following pictures for blog subscribers only please.

 Waiting Blue

 Waiting Grey

 Waiting Teal

 Waiting Red

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