One Hour and Twenty Five Minutes...

That is all it took for our papers to get stamped and shipped back out to us!!!! HALLELUJAH!!!!! We have everything we need...we are here to the finish line of our paperchase! I can not tell you how unbelievable this is. This afternoon my dear friend Karen invited me over for lunch. We ate, we visited, we drank our Diet Coke with fresh lime in it...it was great! In the back of my mind I kept wondering about the UPS delivery that was suppose to happen this afternoon. Finally Karen suggested I run home to see if it was here. I first logged onto my UPS account and sure enough it was delivered to my door at 12:59. It arrived in Chicago yesterday at 9:39 and left there one hour and twenty five minutes later. I can not believe how fast it went! God was faithful in getting this to us! Praise the Lord! He has been faithful to get us through this incredibly hard process. I will be honest and tell you that I had absolutely no idea that this paperbaby was going to be this much work. I had no idea that I would feel just as sick as a pregnancy...nauseous stomach, headaches from the stress, and feelings of exhaustion due the mental and emotional energy that I have been using! It is really crazy! :) Today as I biked back over to Karen's I was going so fast and with such energy that all I could do was praise my Lord! I was so excited I wanted to cry! I got inside and told our girls that the papers were finally here...they were so excited. Their expression were precious. Our oldest gave me a big hug...which made me want to cry some more. :) Oh, I just love our kids!

So tomorrow we will get it all compiled correctly and off to FedEx we will go! The whole family will deliver it to FedEx...we have been in this together from the start so that is only appropriate! Then all we do is wait! Wait and pray for the Lord to move mountains, for Him to unleash His power in Haiti and bring our boys home. We are believing Him to do a miracle in bringing them home. We know that He has the day chosen and it will be perfect.

With all of this elation there is a little nagging feeling in my stomach that causes some distress, because now that we have finally reached this point we need to begin sending in our dossier payments. Our adoption is going to cost us a lot of money, money that we don't have, but God does! That was one of the biggest concerns from the very beginning. God has worked in miraculous ways in providing us the money needed each step of the way. I will not start doubting His faithfulness! I do not know where the rest of the money is going to come from, but God does. I am so humbled by Him and the ways in which He works. We are so grateful, because Matt has found a night job to help with this needed money. He will be a professional by day, and pizza delivery guy by night! I can't wait to see him in his new uniform! :) He'll do great! God is so good...we just are so amazed at His presence in our lives. He is worthy of all of our praise! We'll chip away at this "financial monument" as best we can, and we will trust God for everything else! Here we are walking on water again. :)

Thank you for each and everyone of you that have been praying for us this week and over the past couple of months. With the Lord's hand upon us, He got us to this day of finally having everything needed for our dossier. The only way that we are able to get through this entire adoption is through the power of prayer! I can not tell you how much we appreciate being buoyed up by your prayers! Please join us in the next stage of our journey...for the needed finances, for the process to go smoothly, for the Lord to move our dossier through the Haitian government, and the patience and peace for our aching hearts as we wait for our boys. Please also pray for our boys each day that we are apart!