Waiting quietly

"Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassion's never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, 'The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.' The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD."Lamentations 3:22-26

We are still waiting on that 171. Mary said that if its been over 6 weeks (next week is week 8) she can contact CIS. So Monday we'll call CIS and see where the heck our letter is! I am ready to get our paperwork done and be officially waiting. I'm getting so anxious, I really need to get a grip! I need to slow down, and enjoy the holidays and focus on that. I'm usually pretty good at finding peace in whatever stage of life that I'm in but this is sooooo much more challenging. Like all of you adopting, I wish I could just know a date, or know that in exactly three months I'd have a referral...I wish, I wish!!

171 Letter, where are you????

Still waiting on that darn 171 letter. Everyday I think its going to be here but not yet! Its almost been four weeks which is how long I've heard that it takes after getting finger printed. So right now I'm looking into getting our shots out of the way and about to start with our education stuff. So nothing to exciting to report, just a little bit more waiting.

On a different note, my awesome sister and husband (she also has three kids, Allee-9, Jadon-5, and Ben-3) decided to open their home to a sweet 9 year old girl from the Ukraine for the holidays. She will be coming Dec 20th (i think) and staying for 3 weeks. We are all so excited to meet her. She doesn't speak English so the whole language thing might be a challenge but I cant wait to show her around and share in our Christmas festivities. We are such a crazy, out spoken (to say the least) family so I hope we don't scare to girl to death! I also want to have her and some of the other hosted children out to our farm to show them the horses and do all that fun stuff!