Little Moments

Since my niece's arrival into our home it's been a crazy whirlwind, hence my lack of posts. Life has been at times, hectic, frustrating, exciting, crazy, but always rewarding in some small way. She's been in my life since she was ten when we went out to dinner with Wayne's parents and his niece and nephew and she spied a large tiger's eye ring on my hand...she then proceeds to announce that it's my engagement ring (it wasn't) but at that moment we bonded and she stole my heart. We prayerfully considered our options before preparing our home for her and I am so glad that we did! She's entering into one of the most important times in her life. She's gained freedom, trust, security and abundant love and understanding from Wayne and I. Peyton and Emilia love having her here and consider her more like a sister already. We expected it, just didn't expect it to happen so fast! I passed her bedroom the other evening and she had Mia sitting on a chair curling her hair. They were giggling and Mia was beaming....I stopped and asked her what she was doing with Kiki and she replied, "Oh, nothing, we're just sister talkin'." It made my heart smile :) She met a boy and we met him last night...while I was nervously waiting for this new guy to knock on the door I thought about her own mother and how she was missing out on these small, important moments and it made me sad. Moments that come bursting in, like she does after a date dying to share every detail, how he arranged the perfect first date, how she's coping with a new job, watching her fret over said boy and pace the floor trying to decide what to wear, how to fix her hair, it's sitting up talking over popcorn and a movie. And lately, I've been thinking that I'm not going to worry about things that I can't control, I'm just going to sit back and enjoy these moments.