An Announcement....from the Hubers'

Kevin here.  One tradition we have established in our family is that when a child has been added to our family, I have had the privilege of announcing the addition.  I’d like to think this tradition has been given to me because of my announcing skills…nevermind that Courtney has been somewhat incapacitated in past experiences, I’d just like to think that it's my skills.  So here I am to share some news about our newest parenting adventure. 

Lord willing, in the year 2014, our family will celebrate the addition of a little boy to our crew.  He is currently 2 ½ years old and goes by "Pong".  He is 20 months younger than Annie who is 20 months younger than Jude who is 22 months younger than Timmy.  I guess we have a bit of a pattern going on here.  The folks from our agency had a chance to meet him when they were visiting China in May and establishing a partnership with his orphanage.  Courtney was on the phone with the director for an hour talking about him and hearing how much they enjoyed spending time with him.  After hearing about their interactions with "Pong", I immediately imagined him sitting at the ‘craft table’ in our backroom working on one of many art projects.  Suddenly, the daunting concept of the matching process was daunting no more. 

Our journey begins by waiting.  Waiting that will likely be measured in months and we would like to believe those months will go by quickly.  We are very close to being paper ready.  "Pong" is also close to being paper ready.  When everyone is paper ready, then we will be officially matched.  We hope this will happen in July.  Once we are officially matched, then our paperwork needs to be circulated through a number of important avenues before we will be able to travel to China.  We have been told that hopefully late this fall we can make the trip to officially make him part of our family. 

There are more details to share, but until the paperwork is officially logged in, we have been advised to be conservative with what we publicly post or #hashtag. 

And so, we walk in a space where there is tension between our desire to welcome this little guy into our family and our reality that paperwork needs to be processed before we can experience the life and energy of this little guy as part of our family.  So we wait patiently and we wait with a great deal of anticipation.  

Psalm 68:6.....God sets the lonely in families....