In less than 12 hours, we will finally be on our way to pick up our daughter and receive custody of her. Woo hoo! We've waited almost 2 1/2 years for this day. Yippee!!
Our daughter blessed us with minimal crying today (maybe it helped to have the white coats all off today and not there to swarm around her). We are praying for her to continue in her bravery and to feel safe and secure with us as we take her from the orphanage tomorrow morning at 10:00 am. That would actually be 11:00 pm on Sunday--your time. We would covet your prayers to cover us during that time. Any tears will only delay our departure from the orphanage so please be praying specifically for no tears.
We took her departure clothes today so that she will be dressed in them when we arrive tomorrow (at least that is our hope) and we helped them gather all of her things together. Once we have everything in order we will be on our way to the mall to celebrate. Meet you back here tomorrow with hopefully celebratory photos!
1 Samuel 1:27 "I prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him."
We traveled to a place that is about 14 degrees (on a good day) so that we could pick up our daughter. Were we crazy? Nope--we just have a heart that is open to following wherever God leads us to adopt.
If you've arrived at our blog because you are adopting from Murmansk, Russia and you want to learn more...you can either start at the beginning of our blog or you can work backwards from when we brought Daughter of Purpose home in May of 2008. We're so glad you're on the road to bringing an orphan into your family. It's at the center of God's heart!
Parenting thoughts along our journey:
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4 comments:
Geez, I'm totally excited for you guys!
we'll be praying for you tonight at 11pm for NO tears!!!!! I wish you a great day at the mall tomorrow! I'm sooo excited that she's finally yours and look forward to seeing you all soon again.
Yay! That is so exciting!
I am thinking and praying for you right now as it is about 9:30pm over here and only a few more hours until your Gotcha forever moment... Post pictures soon please!!!
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