Doin' Our Happy Dance....

Homestudy has been sent to Immigration!!! Yeah! So, for those of you who are so sweet and try to understand the process with me...our homestudy was completed this week. I was hoping and praying that we could get it FedEx'd to Immigration by today. This morning, our agency called and said that it was finalized, but not notarized and not ready to go yet - probably next week, they said. Big sigh..."Oh well, I told myself...that is okay, it can go out next week...it is okay...it is okay :-)."

For those of you who have adopted internationally before, you know that getting the homestudy done and off to immigration is a HUGE load off....especially when you know the little one(s) that you are trying to bring home - you know their name(s), face(s), and long to hold them and have them home. A precious family just shared bits and pieces with us about our little Landon, which made us long to have him home all that much more. They recently visited his foster home to help and serve alongside all the amazing workers there at New Day. They said Landon is BUSY...always moving...unstoppable...Sounds tiring, but OH so exciting!! All this just fueled our desire to have our documents off to Immigration today.

So, back to my story...as of this morning, it wasn't ready...couldn't go out. I have been wrestling with the Sovereignty of God v. Petitioning Him as our Father, so I prayed, "You know, Lord...I know you are sovereign, so whatever You want is fine, no it is more than fine, it is perfect. But, just remind me today that our prayers matter." This afternoon at 3:15, my phone rang - "Nikki, your homestudy is ready!" We dropped ALL our plans for this evening/afternoon, and we made the long drive to our agency to pick up the homestudy...then, the drive all over to try to find a FedEx drop off location that hadn't had pick-up yet (because by the time everything was packaged and ready to go, it was 5:50p.m.). I about took out a UPS man trying to run to the FedEx drop box that I finally found (I know you are proud Aunt Jan :-)...no offense to UPS, but they dropped my documents in water last time...

All that to say, one more BIG step closer to being DTC!!! (Dossier to Ch*na :-) Please keep praying for word on Landon's foster brother's file...