The Wait (from Malia's point of view)

Hello Mama's Friends:

My Mama puts things in her blog and on facebook that I say and do that make her laugh.  I like to make Mama laugh, but lately, I wake up sad, and I don't laugh for a while after I get up.  Every Thursday I stay at Vô-Vô and Vó-Vó's house and the last couple of times, I woke up, crying, saying I wanted my Mama, but really, like I told my Mama, later, I am just really wanting Shaela.  I wake up scared that someone took her b/c Mama tells me she is still in Ethiopia, and I don't understand why we can't go get her- now.  Mama says we can't makes Xs on the calendar b/c we don't know the day to go, even.

If you don't know, mama says we're waiting for a court date, and when we know when that is, we can go.  I am not sure what court date is, but I do know it's when a man (or mama says it can be a woman, too) tells us Shaela is really ours, forever.  I just wish he'd hurry up.  I asked Mama how we can make him be faster, but she said all we can really do is pray.

Mama and I pray all the time, and at school, I ask my class to pray for my baby sister.  We do it en francais.  One day when I woke up crying, like I told you, I felt better when I asked Vô-Vô to pray with me for my baby sister and he did.  She is the last person I think about at night and the first one in the morning, usually.

This morning, I asked Mama a question that she didn't answer, directly-  maybe she couldn't, I don't know, but I wanted to know when Jesus is going to come down. See, I need Him to come  to my house so that I can give Him a hug and ask Him to please, please, please let us have our Shaela.  Mama says I can keep asking, that He is in my heart, but I think it might work better if He could really talk to me, right here, so He can do it faster.

Hey! Do you know what my Vó-Vó did yesterday?  She bought me a really beautiful new dress with no back!  I said thank you and I meant it, but when she then showed me that she also had a little one, exactly like it for Shaela, I got really excited! I jumped up and down and kissed her and then I skipped all the way to the car, singing. I have lots of things for my little sister, already , and some are the same as me. When Mama and I are out shopping, I like to ask her for things for Shaela. I especially love when she says yes to little shoes, even if I don't get a pair, too.

Well, we're going to see HairSpray with live people today.  I can't wait.  I heard Mama tell my cousins in Florida, that she loves when she and I can do extra special things b/c we both love and it, and b/c it helps us make more memories as we wait to go to Ethiopia.  I want to go to Ethiopia, now.  Will you pray with me, too?

Thank you,

Malia Dilana Danièl (that is how I like to say my name, now, b/c it is beautiful and special :)