Hong Kong Bound!!!!

Today at 9:21 am I received "The Call" from our social worker Cindy.  At first I thought that she was just getting back to me about an email I had sent her...until she said, "Are you sitting down?" which at that point I was crying.....Oh my word!  I can't even begin to tell you how excited, elated, joyous this news was!  We have been praying and not so patiently waiting but trusting in the fact that God's timing and his plans are soooooo much better then ours.  He orchestrates everything!! Perfectly!

We will be leaving in a week.....I. can't. believe. it!!!! 

PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSING FLOW!!  PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME!!!!

I was with the girls at their discovery session and pulled over in the car to attempt videoing them while I told them.  So in the excitement of it all I have the video turned sideways(sorry) but their reactions were so different and so precious...something that I will always treasure and Sadie will have to look back at when she is older and see just how much she is LOVED already!

I am hoping to get a video of the boys.  Bob stopped at home while I was with girls and I think he tried to video them when he told them..hopefully I can get them on here as well.

Ohhhh so please pray! Pray for us as we will busily prepare this next week(we leave in a week) to get everybody settled here.  Pray for Sadie as she is going to transition from the only family she has known since birth into our family.  She is very attached to them and will grieve them.  Pray for her special family and their hearts as they say goodbye to the little girl who they have taken care of since birth.  I am crying just thinking of them and how hard this must be for them.  Please pray for Bob and I as we travel over to pick her up and love on her and help her during her grief.  And of course, to pray for our children and family here who are holding down the fort!

Oh my I am just so excited and I wish I could sit with all of you and tell you just how our God is AMAZING.  He is in ALL of the details and HE cares so much for us!  I just can't Praise him enough!!

I am hoping this video works, if not I will try again!

I end this post with a beautiful passage of scripture from Psalms 84.  My friend, Andrea used this scripture at the Adoption mom retreat that I missed this year but will be at next year!!  I love this Psalm!

How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord Almighty!

My soul yearns, even faints,

for the courts of the Lord;

my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Even the sparrow has found a home, 

and the swallow a nest for herself,

where she may have her young

a place near your altar,

O Lord almighty, my King and my God

Blessed are those who dwell in your house;

they are ever praising you.

Blessed are those whose strength is in you,

who have set their hearts on pilgrimage.

As they pass through the Valley of Baca,

they make it a place of springs;

the autumn rains also cover it with pools.

They go from strength to strength, 

till each appears before god in Zion.

Hear my prayer, O Lord God Almighty;

listen to me, O God of Jacob.

Look upon your shield, O God;

look with favor on your anointed one.

Better is one day in your courts

than a thousand elsewhere;

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God

than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

For the Lord God is a sun and shield;

the Lord bestows favor and honor;

no good thing does he withhold

from those whose walk is blameless.

O Lord Almighty,

blessed is the man who trusts in you.