Should have posted a while ago, but...life just gets ahead of you sometimes...
This MUST be from our God above because it has been exactly NINE months since we started this process & we all know it takes NINE months for a baby to grow inside it's mother. However, I don't feel labor pains. I feel travel worries and adoption pains (all good emotions....and LOTS of adrenaline at this point)! God Bless our friend Leah for talking us through this week....well at least me, because otherwise I'm not sure I would have made it without totally freaking out!
We are so excited, nervous, scared.....I think the entire gamut of emotions has been felt by Aaron and I this week. We're nervously awaiting Visas and have been told they are on there way to us. By the time of posting, which is 2:17am here, I can't sleep tonight! I have SO much on my mind and later today is that trip out to get stuff for Baby T and to get things that will entice a 23, almost 2 year old little girl to want to have anything to do with you.
I know I'm nervous...will she reject us entirely?
We are BOTH very excited and elated that we SHOULD have her home before Christmas. We have so much paperwork to do when we return...psychologicals, rolled fingerprints, state police clearances, etc. Then to notarize, certify and apostille all that and just wait!
Then, we will go from a no child household to a home with a child and a stay at home mommy (me)! I have wanted this for years now, but as it is happening, I am freaking out. Maybe it's because of the language barrier. But wow, it's amazing how beautiful she is! I can't post photos right now, but she is half Asian (we think half Korean) and looks just like my husband when he was little.
I pray to God we know what to do when and how to help her adjust to our family....and that we don't forget anything crucial on this trip. I have this mental checklist and that's why I'm awake at 2:30am going over it.
We are SO amazed at how fast this has happened. It brings tears to my eyes, honestly to know that this time next week we will be meeting our daughter. To know that having a baby was impossible or not likely for such a young couple was devastating, but now we know God had a plan through all the strife we suffered last year and the year before when we lost our two children to miscarriages.
What can we say? We are eternally grateful...first and foremost to God. Without HIM none of this would be possible! Who knew we could save up this amount of money and we think we will be okay financially, but it has required and will continue to require sacrifice. We ask for prayers on this end, because we know the expenses are JUST beginning.
Well, perhaps now that I have read the "list" of things to pack and printed it for good measure to review tomorrow as I start that process, maybe I can sleep. I sure hope so. I'm not the greatest without sleep. Lord, I bet the adrenaline of it all has finally hit me and those sleepless nights are starting....
Oh well, if it's in God's plan for me to live on adrenaline the next 11 days, then I will. I will eventually succumb to sleep.
There's SO much to remember and poor Aaron has a paper for his Master's degree due this Saturday which he has to finish by Thursday before we leave on Friday so I pretty much have to pack all our things and make sure we are prepared for this first trip.
Since we are literally going to the other side of the world....in Vladivostok, I'm trying to prepare. Please pray for our safe journey and for our Baby T....that she will acknowledge us in some form. That's all we can pray for at this moment. We know it takes time to adjust.
OK, time to sleep....if I can without disturbing Aaron... LOL. How is it that he is snoring away in the next room and I can't shut down my brain?
We are so excited, nervous, scared.....I think the entire gamut of emotions has been felt by Aaron and I this week. We're nervously awaiting Visas and have been told they are on there way to us. By the time of posting, which is 2:17am here, I can't sleep tonight! I have SO much on my mind and later today is that trip out to get stuff for Baby T and to get things that will entice a 23, almost 2 year old little girl to want to have anything to do with you.
I know I'm nervous...will she reject us entirely?
We are BOTH very excited and elated that we SHOULD have her home before Christmas. We have so much paperwork to do when we return...psychologicals, rolled fingerprints, state police clearances, etc. Then to notarize, certify and apostille all that and just wait!
Then, we will go from a no child household to a home with a child and a stay at home mommy (me)! I have wanted this for years now, but as it is happening, I am freaking out. Maybe it's because of the language barrier. But wow, it's amazing how beautiful she is! I can't post photos right now, but she is half Asian (we think half Korean) and looks just like my husband when he was little.
I pray to God we know what to do when and how to help her adjust to our family....and that we don't forget anything crucial on this trip. I have this mental checklist and that's why I'm awake at 2:30am going over it.
We are SO amazed at how fast this has happened. It brings tears to my eyes, honestly to know that this time next week we will be meeting our daughter. To know that having a baby was impossible or not likely for such a young couple was devastating, but now we know God had a plan through all the strife we suffered last year and the year before when we lost our two children to miscarriages.
What can we say? We are eternally grateful...first and foremost to God. Without HIM none of this would be possible! Who knew we could save up this amount of money and we think we will be okay financially, but it has required and will continue to require sacrifice. We ask for prayers on this end, because we know the expenses are JUST beginning.
Well, perhaps now that I have read the "list" of things to pack and printed it for good measure to review tomorrow as I start that process, maybe I can sleep. I sure hope so. I'm not the greatest without sleep. Lord, I bet the adrenaline of it all has finally hit me and those sleepless nights are starting....
Oh well, if it's in God's plan for me to live on adrenaline the next 11 days, then I will. I will eventually succumb to sleep.
There's SO much to remember and poor Aaron has a paper for his Master's degree due this Saturday which he has to finish by Thursday before we leave on Friday so I pretty much have to pack all our things and make sure we are prepared for this first trip.
Since we are literally going to the other side of the world....in Vladivostok, I'm trying to prepare. Please pray for our safe journey and for our Baby T....that she will acknowledge us in some form. That's all we can pray for at this moment. We know it takes time to adjust.
OK, time to sleep....if I can without disturbing Aaron... LOL. How is it that he is snoring away in the next room and I can't shut down my brain?
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