Miracles

Now that we have seen Lilly's face, the desire to want to just jump on a plane and go get her is overwhelming at times. For those of you who have experienced the adoption journey you know just what I mean.

We still need to complete our paperwork and be DTC (dossier to China), your dossier is all the necessary documents you need to adopt. We are only waiting on one official document and that is our I-800A, which is the US immmigration approval to adopt a foreign born child. To do this we have to be fingerprinted at our USCIS office, which for us is in Norfolk VA, a 2 hr drive. We had recieved an appointment for Feb 12th at 8am, but this was just not working out for us. When it comes to the paperwork if it is in my control then I want to make it happen NOW - some things are out of my control and I just have to learn PATIENCE and wait on others - not so easy at times.

So my plan, drive down to the office and just see if they will do it for us - hay it worked for Adeye. This weekend we had 14inch of snow, so I was a little worried on Monday that the office would be closed, you can't call them directly so I called the 1800 number - Yah NO CLOSINGS for weather. So off we went, kids and all, for a little road trip - we got there and guess what? A big sign on the door saying

CLOSED FOR SNOW

What!!!!! So reluctuntly we turned around and made the journey home - a little disappointed wasn't this supposed to work????

Then we had a choice do we forgot about it and resolve to wait for our scheduled appointment, or do we try again tomorrow the last free day we would have before our appointment. Of coarse I wanted to jump right in the car and go again, but life is busy and there was planty of things we could be doing with that valuble time, so without even trying to influence his decision I asked Chris to decide and what ever he felt was right to do, I would be OK with (yah right :)). Much to my relief and joy without hesitation, he said - LETS GO, if it means our daughter may get here sooner, then there isn't even a question - I love this man.

So off we went for a second time, praying to God that we would have favor. As we drove down I ran through all the conviencing arguments I would use to persuade the officials to do this for us - and I had some good ones, including bringing Mia in to make a plea for her sister.

Well we arrived and walked straight in - thare was NO one else there, a man walked up to us asked if we had an appointment - I said no, but was hoping we could get them done today - and before I could start on my list of heart wrenching reasons he just said SURE and we were in and out of there in ten minutes. The interesting part was that he said it had been VERY busy all day because of being closed the day before, but now it was empty so no problem - MIRACLE !!!

WOW so easy - God moved on our behalf and He didn't even need me(and all my conviencing arguments) He just made it happen, because he desires to see Lilly safe and loved, just as much as we do.