"He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God." Micah 6:8
Today we went to Family Court to finalize our adoption of Sadie. Praising the Lord right now! We had a wonderful morning. Our court time was at 9am and when we walked into a room full of babies, children, moms and dads we thought for sure we were going to be there for quite some time. Much to our surprise and delight we were the first. We walked into the court room and I was a little nervous, so much so that when asked with my right hand on the bible I said the wrong middle name...(oh dear)it wasn't a big deal at all. The judge was THE nicest person. He was a born again believer and really interacted with each of our children and addressing each of them by name without them even introducing themselves. He definitely studied up on our home study report;) He really made me feel comfortable, me being nervous was...well...just me being me...lol.
As he asked me a couple of questions I felt the tears welling up inside as I so happily said yes!! Yes she will be treated like each of my other children and Yes she will have all the privileges they have and Yes she will be treated no differently than if I gave birth to her. Yesss yess yes!
That was it! We were in and out in 15 minutes...then off to celebrate with a yummy breakfast.
We Praise the Lord for his goodness to us! We have learned so much throughout this amazing journey. Is it all roses, absolutely not but we didn't sign up for that and He doesn't ever promise that. But He does promise to be with us each step of the way and for that we can certainly testify to. Amen and Amen!!
She now is a US citizen which is wonderful. But more then that our prayer is that she will one day trust in Jesus and her citizenship will be one with eternal rewards!
Here is our adoption journey on video!!! Thank you so much to Jon Gangwer who used his God given talents to help us and made the video for us. We love it and will cherish it Jon, thank you! (please scroll down to pause music)
grammy and mom-mom got to witness and be a part of the day too!
Tomorrow Sadie becomes "officially" a Hirschberg member according to the courts. We of course, have already felt the officialness since coming home from Hong Kong but there is something special about getting to see her birth certificate with our last name and her US citizenship.
She will be Sadie Bella Lok Tung Hirschberg. Yayyy!
What a complete thrill and joy the last 9 1/2 months have been. Honestly, it feels as though we have had her since birth. Really. I know I know...everybody feels that way, but still it is true.
Sooo tomorrow will come and then...yes finally I will be able to blog without any restrictions on her face and what I say and what not!!! Yippee!
