Travel Dates - small change

We have had a slight change in our travel dates due to the obscene arrival time at the Atlanta airport (4am which means we would have to leave our house at 2am). We will now be flying to Newark, NJ from Atl on Thursday, January 7. We will spend the night in NJ and catch our flight straight to Beijing on Friday. We will arrive in Beijing at 3:00pm on Saturday - that whole loosing a day thing is still odd to me :) We will meet our son for the first time on Sunday. We are nervous, excited, and a little frightened but we know God has brought us together for a reason and will continue to be our light on this journey.

Our final A!!!

CA - we got it!!! Official travel dates are January 8, 2010 - January 23, 2010. Gotcha day should be January 10th or 11th - not sure yet. Now the frantic planning begins. God is good because He has brought us through this entire process with an amazing family - the Christiansens and with Godly support from our church family and workplaces. We are so looking forward to the day we can look our son in the eye and let him know he never has to worry any more about having a mom and dad or being apart of a family. His brother is so excited, I think sleep may be elusive this evening :) Please continue to pray as we have never been overseas before. Let the adventure begin!!

Give me a "T"....

Give me an "A"....

Got it!!! Whoo hooo!!!! No news on specific travel dates yet...should know by tomorrow!

Thank you all for your prayers and faith!

Still waiting

Day 20 of the TA wait...hoping to hear something soon. Pray, pray, pray...please :)

Thankful Thursday

Several times today, I felt down regarding the TA wait, but God knew what I needed. When I went to pick up our son from school today, his teacher from last year was there. I stopped in just to say "hi", or so I thought, but God had other plans. After a few moments of teary eyes (which ended up being 30 minutes:), I found myself feeling renewed by her spirit, faith, and confidence in this process. She understood my struggle as a mom with giving this fully to God at times. My CHILD is thousands of miles away and sometimes it feels impossible not to worry about him or worry that I may not ever get there. She provided me with an affirmation that moms in general struggle with giving our children to God. I needed to know I wasn't alone in this. This adoption has allowed us to grow in our faith in ways we could not imagine, yet we are still saddled with the same barriers to God that plague the everyday person. At times it is difficult to remember that. I see the beautiful miracle we are in the middle of, but, sometimes, the paperwork and paper chase can cloud the picture. God always gives up people who can reflect our world back to us from a better perspective, HIS perspective. In his time, we will have our son. Part of me still wishes he would hurry though ;)

God, bless the people you put in our lives and the small miracles that we miss every day. Let them have peace that today, and everyday, they make some one's life better - even when they don't know it.