From Deutschland mit love

Thoughtful Auntie KK brought back this animal/numbers book for our child. Too cute! I have no idea what it says, but I get the idea. Flip the flap and count what's beneath. Danke!

Aesop's tortoise

I can do a lot, but only slowly it seems. It's the story of my life, really.

Rob and I went shopping this past weekend to get a few things for around the house. The main goal was to find a little table and chair for our child, because we only have high stools and high chairs around our bistro-style table.

I was much too impatient to wait for Rob to get home from work to put it all together, so I began. I began around nine this morning, and now it's almost one. They are miniature! Why should it take so long? Moreover, while it took me hours to get everything just right for the chair, my baby sister came into the room and unpacked and built the table in about five minutes!

Regardless of the process, the product is cute and ready.

Others' news

So, the family that didn't pass court two days ago... they ended up being re-heard yesterday and passed. Wahoo! However, a family that had their THIRD court date today didn't pass. Ugh. They now have to wait till next month to be re-heard. This has to be too hard for them.

Whose birthday was it anyways?

The beginning of Rob's... I mean, um, our child's Richard Scarry book collection. I hope that they'll share! To many hours of rocking and reading!

An unsuccessful court date

A family from our agency had a court date today; however, it was unsuccessful. Ugh. Now they have to wait for another one to be assigned and then wait for that date. It's too hard. They know who their son is. They have his face memorized. It must be too difficult.

Please pray that they get another court date very soon and that it is successful. And already for us, although we don't know who our child is, please pray that: all of our papers are in order, our child has enough to eat today, our child has a safe place to be, angels would be all around him/her, our child does not get sick, our child does not have TB, the birthparents know God, we will get our referral for our son/daughter today... of course, there is more. There is always more.

Thankfully, God can handle it. He can handle all of our petitions. Thanks, God.

Sprouts to harvest

Will we be eating you, o broccoli, with Little E. sitting on our laps?

I wish...

...that there were no adoption "process." I wish that God would just drop the child to be adopted in our living room. No warning. No waiting. He knows who will adopt and so He delivers the child(ren). I've been unusually frustrated yesterday and today. I'm tired of seeing our names fourth/fifth down on the list. I'm annoyed by delays, whether real or rumored. I've had it with "the process." (a disgruntled sigh)

I know, "this too shall pass."