Generosity

   We are feeling very humbled, very grateful, and very in awe of God's provision.   As most of you know, an adoption is not free, not even close.  For personal reasons we chose not to have fundraisers, not to apply for any grants, and do our best not to complain about money, or make a big deal about the very large figure we were working towards saving.  We felt that God would provide, and just did our best, and cashed in everything possible.  In these last days we realized we would be short, and a very very generous family member loaned us what we needed.  But to our surprise some wonderful friends and family stepped up and got out their check books and donated to our cause!  You all know who you are and we don't know how to ever thank you!  We truly don't, other than to give you this little shout out, and say THANK YOU!  Lord willing we will be able to pay back that generous family member a lot sooner than we hoped and start saving towards a new roof even sooner than we thought! ( no more buckets! lol)  So  money is a subject that I'm not that comfortable talking about but REALLY  these people deserve some props:)
        We also know that there are many people out there praying for us and for our upcoming journey and also those that are helping out with things while we are gone. Including my wonderful parents who are baby sitting two cute, cuddly and horribly naughty dogs for over two weeks as well as taking and picking us up from the airport and keeping an eye on our house while we are gone.  So we are just grateful, grateful, grateful!
      I have two more days of work left and the cleaning spree and packing everything but the kitchen sink begins!  We are leaving the house about 3 o'clock Friday morning and flying out of Columbus.  Our flight leaves at 7 am and we will then have a two hour layover in Chicago followed by a 14+ plane ride to Shanghai followed by riding the subway to the train station followed by an
hour long bullet train ride to our hotel!  Finally!  Please keep those prayers coming folks!  I'll update my blog if and when I can but I don't think I will be able to link it to Facebook so if your interested in following our journey you will have to just keep checking.  Thanks again everyone:)