All I Want for Christmas....

is our LOA...guess what we got today!  Yes!!!!

 I left work at noon today for the holidays, not thinking I would hear from my agency since I had not yet...
well, I opened my home email tonight and there it was! 

 They had sent it to the wrong work email to begin with and no one called. I forgive them!!! 

Now we have to wait until Monday to send in next set of paperwork which is okay, I want it to be right. 

 All in God's time, all in God's time (a wise man told me that). 

Merry Christmas to all!!!

Words of Wisdom

I keep my nose in the goings on in the adoption world, for obvious reasons.  There have been many notices in the last few days about families receiving their LOA's (letter of acceptance), but nothing yet for us.  Our agency says "any day now" but that feels like an eternity.  My wonderful husband lately seems to know just what to say to make me be still.  I received the following email from him at just the right time:

"Just relax. This adoption thing has always been on God’s time table not ours. If you get it in the next day or so then great and if not then God knows what is best. His ways are not our ways. I Love You."

How blessed I am to have this man in my life...guiding us, protecting us, providing for us...and inspired by Him.

Fun picture, huh?

Random Thoughts

As we wait to hear about our LOA, I thought I'd chit chat for a bit.  Can you believe its almost Christmas?  I'm about finished with the shopping, sometimes enough really IS enough.  Abigail has been "home" for three and a half years now, this will be her 4th Christmas with us!  The really cool thing about this year is, she gets it.  She recognizes that this is all for Jesus and his birth.  She also keeps questioning whether Santa Claus is real or not.  We haven't tried to persuade her thought process one way or the other, but its interesting to watch the wheels spin!  We are going to bake cookies this weekend with Grandma and tie up loose ends.  Looking forward to that as it may be the last one that "small grandma" will remember, so we want to make it special.  Darn Alzheimer's...its so not fair.

(No that's not Abigail's bedroom, its a local nursery that does Christmas very well!)

So anyway, here's wishing everyone a Very Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year.  My only wish this year is for a fast process from here on out, so we can bring that little girl home and pray for an easy adjustment.  Amen.