My dear friend Issa’s friend Renee today got the news they’ve been waiting for forever.

Renee and her husband have been trying to adopt a little boy from Ethiopia, little Lion.  He’s spent 365+days of his life away from them.  Days that had to be hard for all.  But that’s all over with now.  Today they got the news that they passed all the criteria to make that little boy their own.  Soon they will fly to pick him up and bring him home where he belongs.
For any mommy, being away from your baby is hard.  I’m glad for Renee the wait is soon to be over.

So…HAPPY ADOPTION DAY!!  Issa had this awesome idea to hold a virtual baby shower since we are all scattered around this big old country.  So here we are, celebrating and cheering.

Renee, I don’t have any advice on little boys, other than make sure to point the woo-hoo south.  I don’t have advice on siblings, or any of that.  I just wanted to say congratulations.  Am truly very happy that Lion will soon be with his family.