A Suprise Email

February 17, 2014 

6:03 p.m.

A surprise email!!!  Typically we have not heard from the Philippines past early afternoon due to the time differences.  Imagine to our surprise when we looked on the phone and saw this:

You were approved by Board!!!!  HOORAY!!!

I should have the official papers in the next few days!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Let the screaming commence!  The news we had been waiting for….FINALLY…..and then we just looked at each other….OH MY GOSH!!! Do you realize what this means???  We are bringing home not one but two littles!!!  Breathe people. 

We drive to Toys R Us just to knock ourselves into reality.  Seriously a bad choice.  First of all, I worked at Toys R Us during the Christmas season in my early twenties.  I still can remember the lines to the back of the store and all the people.  It makes me want to break out in a sweat 20 years later.  Secondly, I never, repeat NEVER took my girls to Toys R Us.  To me it seemed like that was a disaster waiting to happen.  What child could ever make a decision when there are a million choices??!  But here we go…to Toys R Us.  And I thought people got wiser as they aged.

We look at cribs (when did they become so expensive?) and decide that we don’t know if C.J. is in a crib or a toddler bed.  We look at bedding.  No offense boys bedding isn’t very fun!  I start imagining I’m going to have to go to the fabric store….hey, I sewed both girl’s nursery ensembles…..22 and 14 years ago!  We check out car seats, booster seats.  I complain that not all girls like pink.  Could someone please learn that?!  Then we go down the Barbie aisle.  HOLY COW!!!!!  Words can’t even describe….  Lastly, we decide we’d check out the ball section and the blocks.  Stacy finds some really cool Legos.  Having a boy should be interesting! J

After about an hour of browsing we pile into the car and are exhausted.  So much to see.  So many bright lights.  We can hardly believe that we are looking at things for our kids.  Stacy then says what we’ve all been thinking.  “I was expecting us to be looking at these types of things for our grandkids…not our children.”  Ya, so this is our life. 

God, you got this covered, right??

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jer. 29:11

If there was ever a verse to hang onto tonight, this was it.