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Posted on December 7, 2014 by A Photo a Day

340/365: marie {bucuresti, romania}
“gonna miss this monkey on the right.”

340/365: sarah {roseville, california}
“Aaaaand it’s finally up!”

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Sarah's Instagram

One month of pure magic with this girl ✨ She is the happiest and most content baby. Sleeps like a teenager, eats like a teenager and scowls like her daddy 😍 Her (rare) cries are precious to me, a sign of life and health, something I never got to hear from her older sisters ❤️ #supernovajames #iamahopemom

Huge thank you to my mamas, sisters, auntie, and nieces who took so much time and love to celebrate Novi today ✨❤️

If someone had told us two years ago that we’d be sitting here with baby #2 and baby #3, we probably wouldn’t have believed them. These girls have a special bond and their siblings in heaven probably have a special bond too ❤️ #iramacheinberger #eisleyhope #avagalia #islawrenheinberger #supernovajames

Best baby daddy ever ✨ #supernovajames #girldad

Today has been full of emotion, the dance of joy and grief mingling together is a beautiful journey to experience. • Nova’s presence and life won’t ever remove the grief we have from losing Eisley and Ava. Our grief comes and goes but has settled as a soft, bittersweet, beautiful sadness that ebbs and flows with the joys that life brings. • Stephanie, thank you for stepping into our sacred space and honoring all three of our girls while so perfectly capturing our story. • 📷 @sweetbeginnings_stephanie ✨ #supernovajames #eisleyhope #avagalia

It’s been a peaceful 11 days soaking in our Novi girl ✨ The tears come and go pretty quietly from each of us, grieving the noticeable gap of her sisters. Tomorrow she is the same age as Eisley was when she died, it’s just another day but one that feels heavy all the same. ...Forever trying to reach behind the veil for a glimpse of her sisters ❤️ #supernovajames

With all compassion and understanding of the ache this holds for many of you, Tanner and I want to gently share the story God is continuing to write for us. On July 15th we brought home our 3rd daughter, Nova James Klein Hutchinson ✨ Celebrating her life has been such a bittersweet mesh of overwhelming joy and grief. Joy that she is home and healthy, intertwined with a grief of the forever gap where her sisters should be right next to her. Happy Birthday sweet baby girl, we can’t wait to see you shake mountains ❤️ #iamahopemom #eisleyhope #avagalia #supernovajames

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Happy Birthday to my favorite partner in crime ❤️ Your laugh lines are magical and your serious face so suave ✨

Anyone who knows me know that I’m a sucker for lavender lattes from @shadycoffee and every time I get a full punch card I party just a little 🎉🙌🏽 One of the ways I’m celebrating Eden’s Birthday today is to give up my free lavender goodness and spread the love of a very special little girl ❤️✨ Happy 3rd Birthday Eden Olivia! #iamahopemom

Happy Father’s Day ❤️ Here’s to many more years of getting locked inside the cemetery while trying to visit your girls 🙄🍷 Thanks for being the best adventure partner ever 😘

He became a daddy under the hardest circumstances with very little warning that his journey would not be normal. Regardless, he was still so proud, gentle and protective. He loves his girls fiercely and aches for them daily ❤️ #eisleyhope #avagalia

Typical Tuesday afternoon when your Chicago bff shows up late Monday night as a surprise 🍻🍷😍

To my mama, thank you for bravely raising such a wild bunch of children. Thank you for following the call to adopt and paving the way for our family to be an even bigger multi-cultural bunch. • To my mother-in-law, thank you for raising a kind and gentle man who is real, honest, brave, and strong. • To my mama, Barbara, thank you for praying over my life so diligently. You are a steady support Tanner and I both turn to for wisdom and support. • To my sisters, thank you for parenting through all the laughter and tears and sharing your babies while you’re at it • To my Hope Mommies, you are the bravest and fiercest mamas I know. If only others knew how hard it is to be a mama to a child you can’t hear or touch or see on earth ever again. We’re one day closer friends. • To my friends who yearn to be mamas, you are a blessing to those around you through love and prayers. You take on a different form of motherhood, it’s hard, but I see you. • Choose truth this year mamas, uproot the lies, and choose truth. #iamahopemom #eisleyhope #avagalia

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. ⚓️ He hems us in, behind, and before. #eisleyhope #iamahopemom

Anniversary weekend away 🍷✨#kleinhutch2013

Five down and a lifetime to go ❤️✨ #kleinhutch2013

It’s bittersweet that we have a “normal”. It’s not the normal I’d like, but at least it will be consistent for years to come ❤️✨ #iamahopemom #eisleyhope

Happy 3rd Birthday to my sweet firstborn, Eisley ❤️ We love you baby girl, one year closer 🌻 #iamahopemom #eisleyhope

It’s truly a season of trying to find ways to slow down and take care of myself in the midst of birthdays and anniversaries. #iamahopemom

Marie's Instagram

thankful for my childhood best friend and her ability to take care of four intense children while we did a full day of adoption training. #mercyadoniyah #addysengrace #summer2018

when moving from europe, california’s bring your own bag law just seems...normal. i don’t think that’s even all our bags. that’s just our “shop and carry” set. 😂

so many emotions. sad mixed with excited. but meeting my baby girl. this was the highlight. 💛 #supernovajames

doamna diana was addy’s primary school teacher from class 0 to class 2. sometimes you just need to see one of the most important people in the world before you move. 💛 #mercyadoniyah #addysengrace #summer2018

i’m gonna miss this country. it will always be one of my homes. 💛 #americavenim #etiopiavenim #summer2018

pic #1: #mercyadoniyah doesn’t really like drinks from metal. only drinks from metal with a straw. aka going plastic free’s worst nightmare. 😳 pic #2: #addysengrace overall mood today is sad. but mama has a little surprise for her that’s gonna make it all better. 💛 #americavenim #summer2018

since i have the kids and he has...nothing (the dog is in the hold!) i figure that gives me permission to give him the more challenging carry ons. i told him let’s just hope they don’t wanna unpack it cause his undies (all of them) made the perfect packing material. 😂😂😂 #summer2018 #americavenim

my babies. so courageous. so kind. today is our last sunday. 💛 the other two pictures are january 2014 when they moved to romania and january 2012 when they moved to moldova. next up usa and ethiopia. #mercyadoniyah #addysengrace #americanvenim #ethiopiavenim

three (or four?) years sgo, grammie and pops bought them sweet little handmade traditional dolls. then in horror, two years ago they got thrown away (mama set an old suitcase by the door to go to the trash, mercy filled it with treasures, daddy threw it away🤦🏽‍♀️). today we visited the village museum in hopes of finding similar dolls and we found them! 💛 #mercyadoniyah #addysengrace #summer2018

oh man. i’m leaving a piece of my heart here. 🇷🇴

all the feelings. // she grieves through helping. // she processes through imaginative play. #summer2018 #mercyadoniyah #addysengrace #americavenim

also second moldovan apartment probably fall time? i’m guessing the girls are 5 and 2.5. addy is teaching mercy romanian words from her abecedar! #addysengrace #mercyadoniyah

so in the process of cleaning off an old external drive, i’ve been taking a walk down memory lane. i’m dying from cuteness overload. this one is in our second apartment in moldova so sometime during feb 2013 to feb 2014. also when she had her allergy belly oops! #mercyadoniyah

a little dose of #supernovajames to keep me focused. 💛

delta dunarii ⛴ #mercyadoniyah #summer2018

just eating lunch on a bench in bulgaria. #summer2018 #addysengrace #mercyadoniyah

i can’t put into words how special this person is to all of us, especially mercy. goodbyes stink but we know we will stay in touch with miss and mister miss and micuta miss 😂😂😂 for a lifetime! #mercyadoniyah #addysengrace #summer2018 #americavenim

sooooooooooooooooo close yet so far away. #summer2018

when you are missionaries with food allergies on a budget...you are used to sitting on the side of the road eating weird food your mom packed. #addysengrace #mercyadoniyah #summer2018

daily nova 💛 only thirteen more days to snuggling her! #supernovajames #americavenim

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