Let the countdown begin!

We are less than a week away from getting on a plane to fly across the ocean.  I am fairly organized for this last week.  but I can't help feeling a bit anxious about getting everything done in time.  My biggest stressor is when I sit down to organize our dossier.  I want to take a copy of each document so that I know what they are working from when they review our application.  After two years and  two full updates, that file of papers is pretty thick.  It also has three different addresses, two different doctors, a homestudy addendum and two updates.  Our life has been pretty complicated since we started this adventure.

The rest of the preparations are falling into place.  Our dining room has become Suitcase Central.  Everything we are taking is loaded up on the table, waiting for me to figure out how to get it into the fewest and the smallest pieces of luggage.  I still have to shop for a few more warm clothes for DS. 

Nearly everyone in Winchester is praying for us and we are very grateful.  I know we are benefitting from prayers from Michigan to South Carolina, and Connecticut, to California.  I think they are starting to work in calming me down a bit, or at least they are making me aware of when I am having an attack of the nerves so that I can remember to breathe deep and turn everything over to God.  I know they are at work in the most important way in keeping Alex safe, healthy and loved.

We will make it there.  I know that once we get on that plane, my anxiety will be replaced with pure excitement at the adventure  and the joy of finding Alex and bringing our child home.