While at the Reunion in Beersheba Springs I was sitting on the couch and Little Bug was standing in front of me. Little Bug randomly started talking to one of my mom’s classmates which wasn’t at all unusual. She was loving our time there and after I told her that even though all of these people are strangers to her, she can talk to everyone because Grams knows them all and everyone is a nice person, she was talking to basically everyone she met!

As I was siting there I heard Little Bug start telling my mom’s classmate, “Mommy prayed for me to be in her tummy, but God didn’t."

I immediately put my full attention on her to see where this was going to go.

Never before had I heard Little Bug use those words to tell her story. They were basically the exact same words I have been using for a couple years now to tell her her story!

The classmate said, “Well, you were in somebody’s tummy, weren’t you?!”

And Little Bug enthusiastically replied, “I used to be in Ms. Tracy’s tummy” and then, with a big smile she turned to me where I was siting on the couch and said, “but this is my mommy!”

That was the extent of the conversation and Little Bug was on to something else but I sat there for a couple minutes, just amazed.

Having heard my testimony, the classmate was amazed too and she asked me if I wanted to write that down and then ran to get me a piece of paper to do so.

I don’t know what kind of emotions Little Bug may have to deal with later on in life due to her adoption, but I do know I have desired from the beginning to make her adoption be something positive and special in her life because that is the truth. It was something positive that happened in her life and I believe one day she will see the complete picture of why being adopted was such a positive event in her life.

I think for her four year old little mind, we are on the right path. The simple story God laid on my heart to tell her when she was just a toddler has taken root in her heart and I am beginning to see those results now as she is initiating adoption conversation to others.

I will navigate these waters one step at a time.

- Elaine