Divine

I am in tears, I can NOT thank those of you who have prayed for our baby, our family and this crazy journey.

I do have to laugh at how crazy this journey has gone.

We were in a race in the beginning and asked for major prayers to meet a deadline we didn't think possible except with God's divine intervention.

And we ended this race again knowing that without God's divine intervention it would be impossible.

Well, He did it once again.

While most consulate dates are scheduling the first 2 weeks in Dec ours is

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NOV 29th at 10 am!!

The last possible appt for us to travel over Thanksgiving.

So many praises over this

Tristan will only miss one week of school
AND of all the weeks of the year it is one of the least intensive.
He will only miss 6 days so we won't have to reenroll him for school.

My husband won't be as stressed trying to juggle Holiday sales and 4 kids and school and activities.
(although we did have help for this THANKS Aunt Cindy for offering to come out!) 

I don't have to reschedule all of Griffen's Dr appts I made months ago.

We will be able to celebrate Christmas for real this year!

The kids will be in school for 2 1/2 weeks once we return so we can get acclimated and poor Griffen will have some time to adjust to our crazy family before they are home for Christmas break.

OH and jsut encase the China rep asked me if I wanted to get Griffen on Sunday or Monday - um let see
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Oh YEAH!  Sunday!

Our expected Calendar for this month!

Red couch photos & US Consulate

We began the day with our 8:30 appt with the US Consulates office to take our oath and finish our paperwork. Some unnamed child was beyond a grouch - we had to go before breakfast I think and routine seems to be better for him.

After the consulate & breakfast! we went back to Shamain Island to finish some shopping - Squeaky shoes! FeiFei definately has the wide feet common with dwarfism. Striderite shoes are typical the only option, but the cheap leather squeaky shoes fit perfect so we bought enough for hopefully the next year or so!

We also had to stop and get the customary red coach pictures. The white swan is amazing!!

We also made it to the herbal & pet market. We saw lots of fun things and of course princess girl begged daddy for each animal!!

After dropping the kids off at the hotel for some down time we walked past the 7-11 and along the large city block looking for a grocery store. We found a wonderful bakery that made pastry wrapped hotdogs which the kids loved. A little further we found a small grocery type store which had treats for our long trip home. Lastly, we ventured into a tea shop and tried both green and jasmine tea. We bought both teas, a couple little cups and a few pots. It truly was a wonderful experience but I think that you aren't supposed to leave an empty cup as they kept refilling! The jasmine you count out 25 little flowers and the green tea is 5 mg I think or a small scoop.

I think we have everything packed including all of the squeaky shoes. Praying Cav handles the flight home!