LID!!!!!!!

Today we received an email from our agency saying that today was our LID!  Our dossier is officially logged in in China!  So excited! One step closer to our sweet girl.

The other day I posted HERE about being so discouraged about our possible travel date being more likely in March instead of January.

I know that God has a reason for every delay and a reason for the numerous hoops we must jump through.  But at the end of the day it is so hard to be accepting of God's plan sometimes.  It's so hard not knowing when the end is in sight.  I just want to bring MinLan home…

I want to be able to kiss those pudgy cheeks…

I want to be able to rock her to sleep…

I want to be able to see her laugh and play with Neely…

I want our kids to see that God answered ALL of our prayers in a MIGHTY way….

In a way that is sitting right in front of them….

In a way that they can hug and love on….

Once our dossier was in the mail, our agency mailed us a packet of information that will take us through the end of our adoption process.  In it, is contained the estimated time for each step of the process.  To see all those dates looming ahead it feels like we are so far away from bringing our girl home.

The first date is the step from your DTC to your LID.

Our agency estimates that as a one to three week time frame.

Ours was seven calendar days…some of which were not even actual "business days".

I like being on the short end of the estimate.

My prayer is that we will be on the short end of the next upcoming estimates too.

Will you pray with us?

The estimate time from LID to LOA…our next step…is 6 weeks to 4 MONTHS….sigh….

Amazingly I have seen some LOAs come in thirty DAYS!  But our agency assures me that is NOT the new norm and that most are 60 to 80 days on average.

Will you pray with me that our wait is SHORT?

The selfish, human part of me wants to only pray for short wait times and not instead, for God's will to be done. Can I just say that this is so hard?

Wanting to be in the center of God's will, while at the same time wanting to book a flight to China and scoop up my little girl.

I am finding it hard to balance those two….

Would you pray too that we are faithful in seeking God's will for our family?  Whenever we are supposed to travel, God has a reason.  I don't know if it will be January like we dreamed, March which is more likely, or even some time after that.

An earlier date can happen…

I have seen the lucky few…

I have also seen those that wait…..and wait….and wait….

I don't know if my heart can handle it….

Praying for God's timing and throwing in a little extra prayer that God is planning to work fast. ;-)

We are coming sweet girl,
Mommy