Our week

Mommy/daughter GA (Girls In Action) brunch...two alumnae in this pic!

Celebrated two spiritual birthdays this week...Abigail on Thursday and Audrey An on Friday- THANKFUL for a "7" and a "3" year old respectively!  You would have thought a million dollars had been delivered to their school as a surprise!  Let me just say...I was a tad short ;-)

Abigail was inducted into the Jr. Beta Club.  I'm so proud of not only her hard work academically but most of that others see leadership and Christian character and growth in her.

I received an email Wednesday that ADB's birthday care package arrived at the orphanage. I'm not sure if they immediately drove it out to his foster home (which is an 1-1.5 hours away) or it's being held for awhile- I wish I knew! Either way the realization for him of what is about to transpire is becoming very real, and I cannot stop praying for his little heart. I just know and I'm trusting the Lord is guarding, protecting and preparing it far better in ways than I ever could. In some ways I feel so helpless, but more ways I feel confident. Confident that my God is way smarter than I. It's unreal to think about the amount of people God has placed in his/our path to make this happen already and we've not officially met him- friends (here and overseas who helped me translate), family, church members, Moms In Prayer warriors, adoption agency workers (stateside and China), state government workers (from 3 states), embassy workers, FBI, Chinese government, foster home parents and siblings, medical doctors and teachers (here and there), fed ex workers, courriers, liaisons from new foster home...and this list goes on! Wow. He has no idea...yet. Someday he will. It's been interesting for me to explain the process to Audrey An. I think it's a bit over her head (of course!), but she knows momma has basically had a full time job with paperwork trying to get him (and her) home. She sees how much we are praying for ADB...that's got to reassure her in regards to her OWN adoption story.