An open letter to my {soon to be} daughter:

I can’t wait to meet you. I can’t wait to wrap my arms around you for the first time. I can’t wait to give you the unconditional love that I already have in my heart for you. I know you haven’t had an easy start to your life. Things feel unfair and hard. It is, sweet girl. It is so unfair and I hate that for you.

When you come home with Dad and I, we will grieve the loss with you of everything you’ve known to be true. The loss of your first family. The loss of your country. The loss of the only home you’ve known. You will have lots of feelings and we promise to never stop you from feeling them. We promise to walk through it with you no matter how hard and challenging it gets. We are here for you baby girl. Always and forever.

I want you to know that one thing Dad and I are committed to is keeping your Bulgarian culture and heritage as much as possible and as much as you want. We want to celebrate all the things with you! Baba Martin day, Liberation Day, your name day and anything you want to celebrate!

I can’t wait for the day we bring you home. Your brothers and sister love you so much already! Jackson and Sawyer are excited to build Lego creations with you and show you the art of building tents. Isabel can’t wait to play dolls with you and show you around your room. Our days may have challenges, but they will also be full of so much fun and adventure together and lots of love!

On Friday nights, we have family game night. We can’t wait to add you to the crew! We take turns choosing what games we play. I look forward to seeing which ones are your favorites. We also love to have snacks out for game nights! Jackson and Izzy love goldfish, Sawyer loves pretzels and we all love popcorn! What will your favorite snack be? I can’t wait to find out!

You have lots of cousins waiting to meet you and play with you! 9 in total! We love having last minute get togethers to eat together and play. We spend holidays together and celebrate birthdays together. You already have a whole team of kids on your side and there when you need them. They love you so much already! In fact, your cousin Lynette made and sold bracelets to raise money to help bring you home. She can’t wait to meet you!

You have a Grammy and Grandpa, Grandmom and Grandpop, lots of aunts and uncles who will all fight to be your favorite, and you have five great grandparents who can’t wait to meet you!

There are so many people supporting us and helping us to bring you home. They have rallied around us and shared so much encouragement to us. So many people love you. So many people care.

Dad and I think about you all the time. We pray for peace over your heart during this waiting process. We pray for protection over you. We pray for your needs to be fully met. We pray that you feel the love of the Father that is overflowing for you.

We can’t wait to meet you baby girl! We hope to bring you home very soon!

xoxo,
Mom