Everyone always takes this special picture before leaving Moscow…so we felt we must have it too. ;O)

We are doing well. Everyone is rested up and getting into the swing of things. I have started back to work, only four hours a day. Daddy is staying home in the mornings and then we switch off in the afternoons. She seems to be doing very well adjusting to this change. We are continually amazed at how the Lord works. He has not brought us to this point and “dumped” us off. He has brought us to this point, and is continuing on with us as we continue this journey to our child’s heart. We have prayed so long for her to be prepared for our family and to be ready to come home. Why then do I feel amazed when I see her act as though she has always been in our family. I sit and watch (well, rarely sit, usually chasing her around…but you know, mentally “sit”) her play and give us hugs and kisses, and I think…she has no idea she has been “adopted” or that this isn’t the way her brothers have come into our family. She acts as though it was a very natural thing for her to come into our family the way she did. (and it was exactly the way the Lord planned for her to come into our family) As we were on our way home…she acted as though she knew exactly what was taking place…it was as though she had been prepared for this very moment…and yet I still in my humaness waver in my faith, worrying over the details of life… yet like the children of Israel I have seen great and mighty things…So what are you saying? you ask…I’m just saying the Lord has heard our hearts and answered our desires in so many ways and beyond our imaginations. Our sweet little one lives and breathes as though she were always part of our family…He even answered a desire down in the recesses of my heart that she have a birthday in August…not in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine that this could be possible…and yet…He heard. I had thought before…I wonder if I will miss the fact that we will never know what a daughter borne of our bodies will look like…the truth is…I don’t think I could have borne a child that looked anymore like us than this child looks!! So…even in what seems to be minor things…He hears these too. We are so blessed to be cared for by our Heavenly Father…knowing His ways are good and right for us…

I’m including some more pics…enjoy.

In His Watchcare,

Joy