To respect the birthmother I am going to give her a different name with meaning. I will call her Hope. Because of the hope that God has given her for a future and the the hope she places in us to parent her precious child. We had been communicating on a weekly basis for about a month when I sat in front of my computer and the thought I need to find a girl name overwhelmed me. Hope would find the gender of the baby soon and we only had a boy name picked out. So I did some research on Hebrew names because we wanted to give a name that had a special meaning to us. When I came across the name Eliana I could not get it out of my head so I told matt about it. Eliana means "God has answered" in Hebrew so we felt it was perfect!
It wasn't but a few weeks later Hope found out she was carrying a little girl! Randomly she texted me asking if we had picked out any girl names yet. When I texted back the name Eliana she asked me to call her. Hope said from the moment she found out she was pregnant she knew it would be a girl and had wanted to name her Eliana. She has two couisins with similar names and she liked the letter 'E'. Hope then told me of a stuffed pink elephant she had slept with that she called 'Ellie' and so that pink elephant represented something special to her from the very beginning of her pregnancy.
Only God could place that name in both our hearts! It was then I felt confirmation from the Lord that He was working in both mine and Hope's heart! So when I began to prepare for fundraising, I felt it fitting to use 'Ellie' the pink elephant in our logo!
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