Member-only story
Like Letters Written in the Sand Part: Forty Nine Revised
We’d be celebrating the girls’ sixth birthday! The adoption was finalized a year and a half ago. Anna-leis and Clarence both knew they had so much to be thankful for. There was no doubt that God was good, even when life wasn’t easy.
Anna-leis and Clarence were so happy to see Sasha and Sonya! It wouldn’t change that the girls were everything to them. They’d been blessed with many miracles but their greatest miracle was their daughters sitting at their school desks working on a homeschool assignment.
It was the girl’s sixth birthday today, so it was a special day. After a short homeschool day, they’d get ready for a birthday party with their grandparents. The family of Clarence as well as aunts, uncles, cousins, and church friends. She wouldn’t be able to celebrate with her parents, but that was for the best. Her girls wouldn’t be hurt the way she was.
Anna-leis looked into Clarence’s eyes, reading the pain in her eyes.
“Sweetheart, it’s okay to mourn what you didn’t have, it’s okay to have fond memories of your childhood.”
Anna-leis nodded. “I know, but today it’s about my girls, I don’t want to make them feel bad.”
“Sweetheart, the girls know more than you think.”
