We received our Article 5 today! I got an email at 3 AM (no, I was not awake-I saw it at 7:30) from Guangzhou, China saying that the US Consulate has processed our daughter's paperwork and it is ready to be sent for travel approval in Beijing!
That being said, it's our turn to apply for visas to enter China. Everything is coming together! It's a small possibility that we could travel mid-April. We are going to request it but we may not travel until May. It all depends on one piece of paper, the travel approval. The document I have been waiting 2 years to see!! "Yes, please come and get your baby!" If they process it quickly, travel in April---if not, travel in May. It's only one month difference and I know it will pass quickly if it does not work out. Lord knows, I have enough stuff to get together. God knows when we will be there...we just get to be surprised.
It feels like Christmas, except---you already know the awesome gift you are receiving. You just have to wait a little longer...the anticipation. Every day that passes is one day closer to bringing Naeleigh into her forever family.
I was watching the show "The Little People" the other night. They were having their "Gotcha Day" with their daughter from India. She was screaming her head off when they put her on the bus with her new family. I was watching with my Aunt Debbie and Uncle Eurell. I watched and said, "Oh, poor little thing!" My Uncle Eurell said, "Yeah, but she just won the lottery." That little girl doesn't know it yet and it may hurt temporarily; however, her life changed for the better that day. God joined a family together and her life would never be the same after that moment--and that's a good thing.
Adoption is God's plan...He adopted me when I chose to live my life for Him. The One who gave it all--His very life. He became sin, who knew NO sin--that we may become His children. There is no greater picture of love than that and there is nothing I did to earn it. Isn't God magnificent?
Praise Jesus!! This is such an exciting time!!
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