This Crazy Life of Ours

I can hardly believe it has been almost 6 months since I last posted on this, our newest adoption blog. To say the least, life has been very busy for our family over the past 6 months and I apologize that this is only my 3rd post on this blog. I will attempt to do better, but I make no promises that I know myself I cannot keep. I will try to get you all caught up on our crazy lives in today's post.


With 2 high school graduations and our 3rd adoption, I wondered how we would make it through the year sanely. I definitely had moments of shear insanity, crying fits (more like uncontrollable moments of sobbing), mental breakdowns, and wondering how I ever raised my 2 oldest children safely to 18 years of age and why God has entrusted me with 4 more children to do the exact same task....but "with God, ALL things are possible." Matthew 19:26....and with God, we made it through! God is AMAZING!


You know, God truly listens to us when we pray...a testament to this is that I had been praying all along that we would be able to focus on the twins' graduation and not have any of our adoption plans interfere. God delivered...2 days after the twins' graduation, we finally received our Letter of Approval from China that Yanping is ours! We had to wait a long 83 days to complete this part of the adoption process, but nonetheless, God allowed us to get through graduation and focus on Mikayla and Ty and for that I am truly grateful! 


However, we really were hoping to travel to China this summer to bring Ping home prior to school starting in mid-August, so we would have some adjustment time before jumping into school but I don't think that is in the cards for us. God's timing is always perfect, just not perfect with OUR human plans. So, we continue to wait to complete the next phase...so many phases, so many hurry ups and then wait a little longer, so much longing in our hearts to bring our daughter home, so difficult sometimes to rest in the knowledge that "even though we know not all His plans, we know we're totally in His hands!" 


If you are of the praying kind...please begin to pray for these things especially:

• That Ping's heart becomes softened toward our family and she will be able to bond to us and love us as her parents and forever family.
• That the orphanage is preparing Ping for the upcoming adoption.
• Safe travel to China and back and that our children at home will be happy and safe while we are gone.
• Even though there will be many trials and tribulations, that we will continue to rely on God and have faith that He will carry us every single step of the way.

Thank you so much for praying with us and for us on this...our final adoption journey!