Birthday Boy

Today is Li Meng's 6th birthday. Sadly, we cannot send him anything yet. We look forward to the day we can send him gifts, letters and pictures and to next year when we can celebrate together. He was only 3 1/2 in the pictures we have of him with Anna. The referral pictures we received from our agency were taken a year ago this month. We hope that we will get some updated pictures. Tomorrow it will be two months since I hand delivered our immigration application to USCIS. Things are still processing very slowly. Hopefully, by the end of next month we will have that piece of paper we need to move our dossier along its way to China. Tonight, I made Chinese food and we sang Happy Birthday to the empty seat that Sarah had decorated with a Happy Birthday sign. We tried to eat with the chop sticks we had purchased during our last visit to China. We discovered the nicely finished ones are much more slippery than the plain wooden ones that come with take-out! Some of us resorted to forks. We need more practice! We pray that Li Meng is safe and well cared for while we wait.

While we're waiting

Well, if this were a pregnancy, six months into this, there would be visible signs of movement. Our delivery date would be in sight! However, adoptions don't work on such predictable time tables. This has been a struggle and an emotional challenge at times. On the way home from a prayer meeting tonight, I heard this song on the radio. It is from the Fireproof soundtrack. It spoke to my heart and I hunted down a You Tube video of it. Enjoy - "While I'm Waiting" by John Waller.