Almost there!

First off I want to say that God is good and has definately answered our prayers during this ENTIRE process! Right down to deadlines, and paperwork (which is completely out of our control)! He is so good! So thank you all who have been praying for us faithfully during this busy time! And dont stop- we need your prayers more now then ever!! :)

The time has finally come... We got the approval we needed to travel to china to pick up our little girl! Even though we have been filling out paperwork and going through the legal process of adopting for over a year now we have been praying and preparing for longer than that to adopt. And now the time has come... In two weeks we will be heading over to china... It's a bit surreal... We've waited and waited and waited and now it's hurry up and get there!

Another concept that has hit me, as I frantically run around to get ready to travel, is that we have done all this prep and praying and buying girl stuff etc, and she has no clue what's about to happen. We are so prepared (and yet not!) and she has no part of her that is prepared for what will take place. She will be taken away from the people who have raised her for the past 18 months, taken from her home, her country, her food, everything she knows.  Yes we will love her and give her so much here in the US that we think is good.  However when it's different from all you have ever known it will not be viewed as good at the beginning (for her).

We are thankful at this opportunity to adopt and bring a life into our family who does not have one right now, but this is not going to be an easy process for anyone. We are praying daily for the transition for our boys and for her, and us, that it would be as smooth as possible.  We will be adopting Aynsli into our earthly family, similarly to the way God has adopted us into His eternal family- he new us before we were even born and chose us. Aynsli will have all the rights that a VDP does.  But she doesn't know yet, the love she's about to experience, the comforts of a family and home, and yet the hard transition.  

I will send out a prayer schedule soon for those of you would like to support us through prayer- which we most certainly need.  So if you would like me to email it to you please send me a message with your email- katevdp@hotmail.com.  And I will be updating this blog as much as I possibly can while we are there so make sure to check it! Thank you all for the love and support we already feel! We couldn't do this without the support of the body!