We have Good News

We received a call from CCAI yesterday to tell us that the important paperwork we were waiting for from China arrived!! It's called the Letter of Acceptance. It starts the process rolling and means we will most likely be given clearance to travel before the end of the year. For us that probably means mid December. We are so excited about this as we have been praying for over a year to have her home with us before Christmas. It still could go in to January, but that's better than March!!

We sent a package to Fu Mei last week. We don't know if she received it or not. Please be thinking about her as she opens it and meets us for the first time. We put in some little toys, hair ribbons, clothes, a camera for her to take pictures of her friends and environment, pictures of us and a letter we wrote. Pray that her nannies will help her adjust to this new idea of moving to America to be with us.

Continue to pray for our children here. They are experiencing a lot of changes and that can be difficult. We have moved bedrooms around so that Fu Mei and Amy will be together. We bought a trundle bed and a wardrobe. The room looks lovely.

I have applied to another grant from Lifesong for Orphans. The paperwork has been sent in. Pray that they will review it quickly and offer us the grant. If they have funds available, it could be a matching grant of $4000.00, which would mean whatever we raise up to $4000.00 they would match. That would help a lot.

Thanks for standing by us! I'm feeling emotional about all this and overwhelmed. The next 3 months will be busy, as school continues, activities continue and now adding in travel preparations. We value your prayers and thoughts. I'm also collecting up greetings from friends and family to put in to Fu Mei's file. If you would like to send a greeting please feel free to do that. That would be lovely for her to read some day.