We received an email this weekend (completely unexpectedly) from Terri saying that we had a "tentative" court date for October 4th. You can imagine my surprise because not only two weeks ago she told us that the court date would not be until the end of October because of Natalia being to young. I was thrilled to hear that we will be seeing her next week!!! And bringing her home by the end of October!! We got the got the date confirmed for the 5th instead of the 4th and we will be flying to Moscow this coming Monday!!
So, here I am, running around my house, cleaning, painting, organizing and I only have 3 days left. We will leave on Saturday morning to drive up to Michigan so the boys can stay with my parents while we are gone. We will go back to Michigan for the black out period and will not be coming back to Albuquerque until after we go back to Russia for the 2nd time and bring her home.
I could not be more excited!! Her room is almost done. I decided to paint one wall just today, and I love it!!! The boys are beside themselves! They are not only going to Nanie and Papa's house, but we will be bringing their baby sister home sooo soon!! Sammy says "I can't wait for baby Batalia to be here". I can't either!! And yes, he says it with a B. The smile that Caleb had on his face when we told him the good news was just brilliant. I over heard him talking to his friend the other day about his "sister". It was the sweetest thing!
This has been such an amazing ride. We have an amazing God to create a thing like Adoption!!
Ephesians 1:3-5
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, 8which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight 9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ 10as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
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