Spring Break!

So glad this week is Spring Break! It is nice to have some time to reconnect with the kiddos. I am so blessed to have such great kids. They are sweet and polite, but even more than that, they are just really fun. I truly enjoy spending time with them and getting to know them better! Tonight Riley and I had a "girl night". We made Rice Krispy Treats- her choice- did our nails, and rented "Ramona and Beezus". Then we read Pippi Longstocking before bed. On the adoption front, I am still waiting for my fingerprints to clear. It has been 3 months now, which is much longer than normal, and they are stuck somewhere in the process. I told myself that I wasn't going to worry about the time-frame this time. That I wasn't in a rush. That I would just take it step by step. That is so much easier to say than it is to do. When I envision our son- already born- halfway across the world waiting on us to complete paperwork and step off of that plane, it becomes much harder to take it step by step. I know it is all in God's perfect timing, I just need to be reminded of it daily. Some precious friends of ours met their daughter today. The Evans family- who has had their own share of setbacks in the adoption process- met their sweet 5 year old daughter Betsy this morning. She is precious and beautiful- all in God's perfect timing. Check out her sweet face and new family at openheartsopeneyes.blogspot.com So happy for them and love seeing this earthly picture of God's desire for those to be a father to the fatherless. Blessings! Meredith

New Blog!

Hello everyone! I have decided to start a new family blog. I am not really a blogger, so this is a big undertaking for me! I did have a blog a year or so ago to keep up with our China travels, but other than that, I am a newbie to blog world. We are a family of 5 searching for our 6th member. My husband and I have been married for 12 years and have a 10 year old bio son, a 7 year old bio daughter, and a 2 1/2 year old daughter from China. We will be traveling to China again to add our 6th family member in the near future. Right now, we are still in the paperchasing process. I am planning to try to keep up this blog to commemorate our crazy lives!