YIPEE- we have TC!!!

Travel Clearance!!! This is really unbelieveable, but we got Travel Clearance, which means we can leave to get Tae at any time!!! I got the call while I was at the beach and CJ in Australia! I had to hurry home and CJ had to come home early from his trip, so we could prepare to go get Tae! We had tentetively booked tickets for Sept. 8 to fly over there using our FF miles. We didn't think that just one week later from EP approval that we would get our TC! We are so surprised and excited and have a ton of emotions about expanding our family! We had to immediately start looking at flights and figuring out when we would go get our son!

Did I mention that God's timing is perfect? In the middle of all this, CJ called and said that they may need someone to work in Korea in the next couple of weeks. So, long story short- God's providence has worked it out that Cj will get to work in Korea the week we are there! What that means is that our trip is completely paid for!!!! His work buys his ticket, hotel, rental car, food! We are using his FF miles and we both get to go First Class - another huge blessing! God truly is able to do more than we can ask or imagine. We have waited and waited for almost a year for Tae and He knew the perfect time for him to come home to his forever family!

We have had the best day! Church this morning- baby blessing for Tae, baptism for Emily Anne- picked up Kailee, dinner with great group of girls, Ree arrived! I have spent the past hour telling Kailee and Ree everything about the kids. Jerri Lynn will have her first day of school without us- but, we took her to her classroom last week and she didn't want to leave- I am praying that she will feel like a big girl going with Charlie to school. Charlie has said that he wants to snuggle Kailee and Mootsie wants to snuggle Ree and that is exactly what happened tonight at bedtime!!! God is giving us a peace about leaving the kids and knowing that He will take care of them.

Our prayer now is that God is somehow preparing Tae's heart for leaving his foster family and coming home to us. We already love him so much and pray that he will be able to recognize that as he is taken from his secure, loving foster home. We leave here Tuesday A.M. at 6 and arrive in Seoul on Wed. afternoon at 3. We meet Tae for the first time at 10 am on Thursday!!!!!! We don't get to keep him until either the night before we leave or the day we leave.

We know that God has handpicked Tae for our family and has put His hand on blessing us with this child. We are trusting Him in Tae's transition as well as our family transition from a family of 4 to 5! I must say- WE CAN"T WAIT and are SOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!!!!!