HE's OURS!!!!

WE MADE IT

WE DID IT

HE'S OURS!!!!

We found out this morning that we passed court.

We have an Embassy date of August 20th so we are finalizing airfare now.

I cannot tell you how amazing it is to be able to have this behind us.  

But I do have to eat a HUGE humble pie!  I see SO clearly now why God had us wait for this.  I have asked his forgiveness a dozen times today.  

Leaving on the weekend of the 16th allows for D's current job to be complete, we will only have to be gone about 2 weeks instead of 3 and we will be home before the kids start school.  How does it get better?

I cannot wait to go kiss that little face.  Am I going to have the most beautiful kids ever or what?!!!

Or am I just a biased momma? ;o)

My friend Cindy and I have been waiting together.  She has been waiting for her referral and we have been waiting for our travel.  We have so many parallels in life we just knew we would get news at the same time.  

Yesterday she received her referral for a precious little boy and today we find out that we are going to get ours.

Praise God from whom all blessings flow!!!

Nope

Ok, so now I am to the point that it's just getting kinda comical.  I think perhaps I may have cracked a bit in all the waiting, but at this point I think I may need some kind of breathing treatment when we actually do hear that we have passed court. So... maybe tomorrow.  I believe this is the reason I do not read suspense novels, I always read the end first...lol 

I did get some news today that has put a HUGE smile on my face.  My dear friend has FINALLY received her referral.  I almost drove off the road when she called to tell me.  What a way to lift someones spirits.  When posts about it I will link to her blog so she can share the details.  But it's been a LONG time coming.

What a huge praise.  I am still smiling.  

God is Good!

Maybe tomorrow?

So today the news is that the paper they need from the women's ministry in ET was not at the court again when they tried to submit our case.

We are told it is done however and is to be there tomorrow and tomorrow we should pass.

This is fairly happy news.

But then there were a few people that passed today that haven't been waiting nearly as long and I had a moment of pity party.  I do NOT wish this wait on anyone, I just was sad that we are still waiting.

So if you hear whooping and hollering tomorrow you will know it's me.  And probably my adoption coordinator cause I KNOW she is sick of my whining.  I am a bit over it myself.  hhhmmm wine I think I will go have a glass and toast to a passed court date tomorrow when we can FINALLY call him ours.  AND share his picture.  

Care to toast with me?

This kid LOVES to draw

N LOVES to draw, his favorite color is red and he only uses markers.  

I caught him in the act so I thought I would share... is this kid too cute for words or what?!

Perspective

I found out this morning that my best friend from High school lost her husband to cancer last night.

They have a daughter that is my S's age, and he has grown children from a previous marriage, and grand children.  

I cannot imagine being a widow right now.  There are times I would like to toss my husband on his ear, but I sure don't know what I would do without him in my life.

Her husband has been battling cancer for several years, so it's been a long time coming.  I know from experience though even when you think you are prepared for a death it's something you just aren't ready for.

I wish I lived near her so that I could visit and comfort.

In times like these I am reminded that there is always a silver lining, there are always things out of my control, and in His hands.  There are things I will never understand in this life time, but know that God loves us with all His heart.

Well...it's something

We found out today that we didn't make it through court this week.  Apparently there is a piece of paper from some government office that wasn't available.

And since it's a government office, not ours, they cannot "demand" that it be done.  I get that.

So the news is that they "expect" the paper to be filed this coming week.

If that is the case our travel date has been moved back to August 18th.

I will admit to blowing a bit of a gasket when I read that information.  Considering we were supposed to have traveled in July.  I had to apologize to the bearer of the news.

This time frame does allow for D to finish up a job is working on, so he won't have to worry about leaving a job at the end.

The airfare seems to be much cheaper during that time frame, that's a HUGE relief.

We will miss S's High school orientation, she's starting in a special program called "Legal Studies" that allows students to study the legal system so they may pursue a career either in law or law enforcement.  She wants to be a juvenile lawyer. Anyway we will miss that, AND her first day at High School. We will also miss Z's first day at college.

We will be gone for my birthday but it's not a big mile stone or anything, so it's no big whoop. ;o)

So... we wait for a bit more.

D was also in a fender bender today, some guy ran into his back end.  He's fine, and it was superficial damage.  But it wasn't a great day to deal with that issue as well.

Looking forward to a good weekend.

fun

I felt the need to share some fun stuff...it's been a bit dreary around here lately.

Here are some fun pics of N.  

He built a tower of blocks and wanted a picture of how they were taller than he is.  

And then a cute one of him at our friend's pool. He has grown SO much I happened to pass one from when he came home December of 2006... what a difference.