Hands In the Air!

We got to speak with "V" today and tell him we are going to be on our way real soon. He didn't say much. After fifteen months, he must be as numb as we are to waiting. We told him that we would be there in a couple of weeks. This has to be an eternity to him. He is only 9 years old.

We told "V" we should be home for Christmas. Won't that just be so cool?! We can make Christmas cookies together, homemade Polish sausage and pierogies and a Gingerbread House! The Christmas holiday is a big deal in our home. We have many traditions. Kevin is already worried about getting more stockings and downloading Christmas music. He would play it all year if I let him!

Sadly, we tried to speak with "D" just to say hi. She wasn't able to come to the phone again. Not real sure what is going on with her. This is the third time we tried to speak with her and we couldn't. It is not looking very positive with her. Please pray God will give us clear direction as to what to do about bringing home a second child.

I have so much to do in getting ready I don't even know where to start. The hardest part I think is getting everything situated for my two kids being left at home for three weeks. I am getting really excited to go.

Kevin and I have compared this trip to a roller coaster ride with your hands up in the air. We just want to let go and let God direct us. We are going into it knowing it is all out of our control. It is all in God's hands so why fight it! (Good at least in theory I know) I have a feeling God is going to try and stretch us and teach us more.

Hebrews 12:7-11 It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness. All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it , afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.