SO EXCITED!!!!

This is hilarious. I don't blog often....but I did this morning. And it was pretty much a whine fest of why the adoption thing won't happen and why it's taking so long.....
This afternoon I get a phone call saying the girls' family is going to be in Quito TOMORROW night. How's that for a quick answer?
Wow! Talk about no warning. Of course I've wanted this for so long but then when it's on me so suddenly, it took my breath away.
There's a lot to do!
The girls are beside themselves with excitement. They have lots of questions. My favorite was, "Can't you come with us? Come on please?!?"

June 30

I know no one can give an exact date with all this adoption stuff... I get that. But I was more or less assured (by my s.w.) that the girls would be gone by the end of June. Hmmm look at that. It's June 30.

I am trying SO hard to be patient. I know in my heart God's timing is perfect. I know He's not making a mistake. And this detail isn't on a pile on His desk that He just hasn't gotten to yet. I get that too.

But it's so hard. Today is Zac's 2nd round of chemo. Yesterday Mom left. It's hard to wait. Plus the girls are ready to go. They constantly pray and ask for their new family. I can only imagine it's 100 times worse for their family to wait.

Don't misunderstand me though. I enjoy every day I have with the girls. I know I'm going to miss them beyond belief when they leave. I love, love, love being with them and we have so much fun. I told a friend yesterday it's like an ongoing party around here. (As you can probably tell by the pictures!)

So.... since this is all completely out of my control, I suppose I should just continue to trust God and I should continue to learn patience. Please pray for those two things with me. Thanks!

The waiting game

My mom came to visit me and it's been amazing! This had been the longest stretch of time that I had not seen a single member of my family and it was truly affecting me. To see my mamita has been great!

We've had a lot of fun with Nataly and Joselyn. They love their "Abuelita."

Today we did bumper cars! Yesterday she took us to KFC and that's a HUGE treat around here!

We went to the doctor yesterday to get one step closer to bringing their forever family down here.

It seems to be dragging out....and it's so hard to wait. It's so hard to explain to the girls that NO one wants to wait this long but it's what we have to do.

At the doctor's office we met the social worker from the agency and she gave us a package from the forever family. Two brand new dresses, sweaters and loads of hair things were among the surprises. They were giddy with excitement! There was also a letter and a video and a little booklet of pictures. In the waiting room I let them look through the pictures.

They recognized everyone right away. They pointed excitedly to the pictures and said, "look there's my Daddy.... that's my big sister, that's my baby brother.... there's Mommy!"

It was so precious! The s.w. was wiping away tears!

Hopefully this excrutiating waiting game won't be much longer!

I can't even begin to imagine how hard this is on the family... to have 2 beautiful, precious little girls and not be able to meet them yet! We keep trusting in God's timing!

The pictures are of the girls primping up their Abuelita. She got the full-on salon treatment!