Moving Along!

Those days when there is nothing we can do but wait are really hard.  And we have lots more of those ahead!  Good news is we finished the home study and I have just returned from mailing our I800A!!  We are sending it ahead of the final home study report.  Just going to the post office made me feel like I was doing something that is in my control.  Now it's another long wait!   Did I say I was in control?  I keep forgetting!  It's not me, it's God!  Why is that so hard?

Above is a picture of the first care package for our Kell!  There are small gifts for his foster parents and foster sister, also.  He gets the all important candy, a baseball (of course),  Braves gear (gearing up to be a home town fan!), a photo album of his new family, his new home, his new dog.....wow!  That's a lot of changes for a little guy!  I pray he will not be overwhelmed by it all!

Also pictured is my new friend, Henry.  I was directed to him by a friend.  He works at a local family owned chinese restaurant.  Henry knows mandarin and can translate the written words.  I found that even though some immigrants can still speak the language, they have forgotten the thousands and thousands of symbols used in writing it.  What a difficult language!  Henry was so gracious to me.  He translated a stack of labels for pictures in the album amd a couple of letters.  He refused payment even though I told him he hadn't seen the last of me and my translation requests!  His only request is that I bring Kell to the restaurant.  Oh, I will be there!  Kell will miss his noodles like I missed my grits...that's where I got the name of the blog!

The package will be hand delivered next week by a family who is going to Dongguan to bring home their precious 6 year old daughter (thank you!).  I hope his heart is happy!  I pray that daily.  I sometimes go into my children's rooms when they are sleeping...aren't sleeping babies sweet!?  I pray for them while they are peaceful and quiet.  At many times during the day when I pray for Kell, he is sleeping on the other side of the world...peaceful and quiet...and I can't wait for him to be sleeping in his new room, in his new house, with his new dog on the floor, with his forever mommy praying for him.