This is a short story that Elizabeth wrote for a school project in the spring of 2006 near the end of her 7th grade year of school. We had just begun our China adoption process. You can easily get a sense of how she was feeling about this big decision for our family. She dedicates this book to her Chinese sister.
"Every night I prayed. I prayed hard. I sometimes had a hard time believing it might really happen. I had wanted a sibling ever since I could remember. All my friends who had siblings said that I was crazy, and I would not like it. I disagreed. I knew I would be a good sister.
After my parents had me, they decided I was going to be it. "One is enough," they would say. I disagreed with that, too. It was not until the year 2005; they told me they also wanted another baby, too.
When my parents told me this, I was dumbfounded. How did this happen all of a sudden? I had wanted a sibling ever since I was three, but I did not start praying for it every night until three years ago. My mom and dad told me that they had a change of heart from my prayers over the years. Prayer is powerful. Prayer also works. If you desire something so bad, and you would do anything for it, then pray about it. If it's God's plan, it will happen.
There was just a slight dilemma. It had been eleven years since my parents had me, so the doctors told my parents there was a one in three chance that they could get pregnant again. My family decided it would be hard to take those odds, so we went to the next choice. That choice was adoption. This would be a good choice for our family since it would be a sure thing if we got a baby! There were also many babies already born that need a good home. I was so excited that we were going to adopt, but I did not see this coming!
We knew a lot of people that had already adopted from China, so we considered it. We talked to some old friends of ours, and heard their adoption stories. They said adopting from China was an amazing experience, and they did not regret it. We knew very quickly that adopting from China would be our path, also some of the families we knew had adopted twice!
I had always felt like something was missing in my heart. I knew God heard prayers, and I believed in Him. Now, I finally understood that. He really did hear me. I would just cry sometimes when I would talk about wanting a sibling; thinking that it would never happen to me. Thank goodness, I was wrong.
There has never been anything else that I have ever wanted this much, not even a cell phone! It still has not really hit me that I am going to be a big sister. In reality, I now know that my biggest prayer and biggest dream will come true. The moment I first hold my new sister will definitely be one of the most memorable, exciting times of my life.
The reason I wrote this book was to show how important this is to me and to share my happiness about this wonderful process of adopting from China. I do not even know yet what she looks like or who she will be, but I do know one thing. I already love her!"
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