Full Speed Ahead!

In the last 6 days, we've had 6 adoption-related appointments along with multiple adoption paperwork errands.
We are only 3 documents away!!!
Then, we will apply to USCIS for the final piece.

Tonight I submitted an application that will put us on the waiting list even before our dossier is complete.  (This is huge)

It's been a major week for our process, combined with some great
family time.
Thankful doesn't even begin to explain how I feel.
Thank you again for all the prayers!!! Please keep praying!

We are so close.  I don't know exactly how close, but close.
One step closer to our little beauty.
Full speed ahead!

Hope is Blooming

I placed little pieces of hope in the ground
after I wrote this post last fall.

I covered them up
believing - trusting - knowing
that God is at work.








Winter brought a lot of change.  We started to see things that only God knew would come.
God began to give us a glimpse of things to come...

...at just the right time.
in just the right season.







We will be with our little beauty so much faster than seemed possible just weeks ago.
Years of waiting have turned to months,
                  and I can feel the promise emerging.

Today, we had the home visit for our new home study.
We are on a steady course to China.

We are praying for wisdom and peace as we complete our dossier to send to China and prepare for our little daughter.
Her beauty already blooms in my heart.

"Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, 
for He who promised is faithful."
Hebrews 10:23