Bringing Dariya home: Court and Introducing...

Dariya Joelle Cannon

Court went well, very smoothly.  The prayers were heard and answered and we are praising God for this continued blessing on our journey. 

We began court at noon and by 12:30pm the judge was reading her judgement in favor of the adoption with no break or anything.  As the judge began reading that she was delcaring her Dariya Joelle Cannon I of course started tearing up.  Next thing I know 2 of the people in the courtroom had tears and we were all in search of tissues.   Thankfully we always have our kleenex stash in case of emergency toilet paper need. 

It was very fast, our facilitator was even shocked by how fast it went.  We were expecting to be there at least an hour.  They asked us about Jason's job, our family, our support in raising Dariya (we were able to share about KP and the DSG) ability to care for and provide medical and financial stability to another child.  Then the orphanage inspector asked me how I will handle two little ones with special needs based on my small stature.  LOL I had to explain that my job as a high school principal included breaking up fights and managing teenagers so I said these two little ones are going to be easy.

We missed our morning visit with her so can't wait to get over and squish the newest Cannon.  Oh and we were also blessed with her baby pictures immediately after court.

What's in a name?

Dariya was her given birth name.  We all loved the name and obviously she knows it well so we decided to keep it. 

As Liam's middle name is Jason's middle name, Aidan's middle name was my grandfathers name, and Alayna is the female version of Allan (my father) we wanted Dariya to not only keep some of her cultural background but wanted her to be named after someone in our family too. 

The "Jo" is from Jason's mother's middle name Joyce and the "elle" is from the end of my name, thus Joelle.

We liked the sound of it then looked up the meaning and found that it means God is willing and we knew this was the name for our newest family member.