Doin' the Happy Dance!!

I am doing the happy dance, for so many reasons!!

We got our petition to court document last Tues, just after I had posted. This document has been taking months to get back, ours is now complete. Saturday our papers came from our home study agency- yeah !! After a delightful time spent with Tim's family on Thurs and my family over the weekend, we went to Columbus yesterday and got 36 documents apostilled!! and copied in quadruplicate!! and stapled together!! and mailed out to our agency!! and it was received today by them!! and will go out tonight to Russia!!!

We have only 4 more documents to gather for the regional court, that we know of so far. 2 will travel with us as we go. We are praying for the CPS (Child Protective Services) letter to come back very soon. Thank you all for joining in with us to pray that document comes very quickly and we are able to get it finished, certified and apostilled and to Russia very soon.

Secondly, I'm praising and dancing and, yes, crying even, because the 1st of our 4 families, waiting in another region of Russia for almost 2 years for their sons (since they met them in Nov of 2005), finalized their adoption today. They should be able to be home before Christmas with their son. What joy wells up inside to be able to rejoice with them after their long wait. I can not even imagine it! Tomorrow will be one month since we met our son for the first time, and it feels like much longer.

Thank you for your prayers and your love. They mean so much to us. I'm praying that this first completed adoption will be a harbinger of great things to come and the flood gates, so long closed, would fling wide their doors and reunite all these children with their families.

Thank you God for your perfect timing. Help us to rest secure in that, even when we think we know better. Thank you for being in control!!