Hit a SnAg :-(

well, today could have been better...I have not cried, but I thought about it a couple of times and my throat felt like I was going to...in a nutshell, I got a call from our agency today saying that in our homestudy, the age range we were approved for was 0-24 months...I was thinking it was to 2 years, but apparently it was written as 24 months...and you are thinking to yourself, "is that not the same thing?"..well, apparently not, unless I am mistaken. I have thought about the age range before, but figured we were fine because when we got the referral for Alice she was 11 days from turning 2. Well, Karla called today before we sent everything and talked to our immigration officer, who told her that they were using her age when LOA was issued, which was 8/5/10---she was 29 months and 17 days old. I know it sounds like a bunch of nothing, and in the scheme of life or 'in the light of eternity' as my friend Heather always says (I am smiling a little, thanks Heather), it really isn't a big deal. It is a costly mistake--$340 and our social worker will have to drive 45 minutes and come to our home again and do a short interview...not ideal to say the least, so needless to say, today was a bit of a downer....I had a glorious morning with my sweet friend Meia, who got a referral the first week of August for her Chinese daughter and we did all kinds of adoption talk, which is so much fun...then, we ate at the chinese restaurant in town and during lunch, I got the call. That was about 12:30...I drove 30 minutes and picked Lucy up at 1:00, came home worked on the supplement, drove 30 min to Charles' office for him to sign it, went to my sisters and picked up Max, drove 30 min home to Pakmail to overnight the document and $340 check to fix the mistake (which cost $33 dollars), went to CVS with Max and Lucy to have my passport picture made (again) because I had to have ONE more picture to apply for our Visa's that I SHOULD have been working on today and HONESTLY...this was NOT a good time to have my picture made!!!!!!! Then, drove to my dear friends, the Johnson's house (thanks Puffy and Lauren) to get Charlie and left from there and drove STRAIGHT TO CHURCH, a 30 minute drive...AHHHHHHHHH.... (deep breath...I feel better now...thank you....)

I will say that after worshipping...I was feeling better...a song lyric "Who has told every lightening bolt where it should go???" was sung---and I was reminded that if He cares enough to place each lightening bolt...he can handle a little government paperwork;) I am a daughter of the KING....and He says "Cast your cares on ME.." Psalm 55:22)

Then, as a little treat...a sweet lady at church that had been working on a blanket (a VERY GORGEOUS dream of a blanket) just happened to have finished it and brought it tonight...coincidence???? I think NOT...of course, I bawled then....God is good...I will post a picture later...it deserves a post of its own...


So, anyway, Karla and I have figured out a plan and are going with it....He knows the very hour I will have her in my arms and that is good enough for me...GOODNIGHT:)