Waiting for Article 5

It's all coming back to me now. The closer you get in the adoption process, the longer everything seems to take. This is when your patience is truly tested. Could it be compared to the third trimester of a pregnancy when that baby can't be born soon enough?

Our NVC letter was sent to China on 1/13, so it's only been a week, but wow--it feels like a month! We are hopeful that we will receive our Article 5 on or about January 31st and then we wait for travel approval.

This is going to be a reminiscent couple of weeks for us, so I am going to focus on our journey to Daniel and maybe that will speed things up for our journey to Charlie. This time last year, we were in Beijing anxiously awaiting our union with that precious, crazy little guy. In the blink of an eye, our little shooting star has come and gone.It's so hard to believe that so much has happened since then and that soon we will go back. All in God's time...