WE'RE GETTING VERY CLOSE & VERY ANXIOUS!!!
Wow, what a great day it's been!!!
First, I spoke with my administrator today to share with her our anticipated travel plans. Something about speaking with her makes it all seem so real......yes, we've been planning for Miao's homecoming for over a year now but something about notifying your work that you'll be out for an extended amount of time is the realization that it's coming, very soon!!!
All the endless hours of time and effort vested into the paperwork involved with an international adoption, sending care packages to Miao, exchanging letters with her and waiting for over a year, viewing her picture, day-after-day, it begins to seem surreal and that it's never going to happen and when it does finally "happen" it sort of takes your breath away! By the grace of God--it's happening and very soon!!!!!
Once I drove away from the school, I immediately phoned Earl to share with him our conversation and the joy that Miao is welcome to finish out the school year, at my school!!! This will be great mother-daughter time each day driving back-and-forth from home to school. My commute is over 2 hours, each day so this will allow lots of time together. Guess I best start searching out music DVD's in Mandarin. :-)
Okay, the good news today, continues. We decided to have dinner out tonight and when returning home and jumping on the computer for any signs of a status on our adoption--THERE IT WAS---CONFIRMATION THAT OUR ARTICLE 5 WAS PROCESSED AND THE COURIER FROM OUR AGENCY PICKED IT UP, YESTERDAY--10/13!!!!!!!
Okay, just maybe...just maybe, we will be able to travel at Thanksgiving..that's our dream/best case scenario but if not, we are happy with the opportunity to travel by end of year!!!!! We want our beautiful daughter home for Christmas!!!
Miao wrote in her last letter to us, that she was counting the days until we bring her home....we are thrilled to share with her that we will be traveling very soon and she will no longer need to count the days!!!!
Blessings to all,
Sharee
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congrats sharee!! Very exciting!
ReplyDeleteMany prayers for continued quickness in your journey!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! We got our TA 9/22 and our CA was 11/2. Probably a little longer than norm for CA because of the Trade Fair. We hit the trade fair but just miss the Asian Games. I"m thinking price-wise and chaos wise December travel will be best, even though I know you are ready to bring her home. Believe me, I understand!!!!! I'm so ready to leave on Wednesday!!
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