Her People Now...

When we travelled to Russia each trip, we relied on Skype...mostly to keep us in contact with our 3 children back in the US and the grandparents staying with them. One late night in Moscow, we had the delight of skyping a dear friend, a grad student who lived with us for a year two years ago. There was so much that we loved about her but the way she jumped right in with our family's sense of humor made for the creation of many little "inside jokes"....like giving our Suburban a special name..."Big Blue"...or joking with Matt about his very "dogmatic" personality. When we skyped her that evening we jumped right into joking and one of her comments to us about Ana was "does she know that you all are, like, "her people" now?" We've made that one of our new little family jokes, but we're serious about it too. We ARE her people now. Or, as they say at the adoption agency, her "forever family".

This evening we sat around "post-Christmas" visiting with much of our extended Keyser family. We told the the "her people" story and announced to Ana with the wave of our hand...."Hey, these are all your people now!". In Ana style, she giggled and did a little jig of a dance. How amazing and how blessed we are with this new little one in our big family.