Well...I wish I could say that I stayed 100% faithful, but I did have some anxiety. We have some friends that wanted to use their points to buy part of our round trip international flights. They went beyond that and paid the difference to get all of our tickets paid for and they are now booked! What a huge blessing. We also had some anonymous donations come in to help get us pretty much all of the travel money that we needed. God is good! This has been all Him from the beginning. Our fundraiser will remain open until we get home as we still have some post placement expenses to cover.
Amid all the discussions and weighing of options after we got travel approval, we decided that it would be best for Jack to stay home. So, just Grace and I will be traveling over to get Sam. For those who are not up to speed, Leslie needs to stay home for Claire. Claire gets a little grouchy without her momma and is really hard for anyone else to take care of. It is just not feasible to try and take Claire with us or for both of us to go and leave her behind. It's been a struggle for Leslie, because she knows what she will be missing out on. Those initial interactions with Sam, getting to know each other and starting the bonding process. Not only that, but we have made life long friends with other adoptive families each time we have traveled to China. We will do our best to Skype, and document our trip via video and pictures.
Thank you for all of your support and prayers!
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