T-minus 12 Hours!!

We are leaving TOMORROW!! We are leaving a family of four and returning a family of five. This is every Christmas of my life rolled into one. The anticipation. The wonder. The excitement. And the gift. Oh, the gift! Thank you God, for trusting me to be Mommy to this precious boy. Thank you for saving his life, nurturing and protecting him, and now....creating a new family.

Please pray for us, my friends. Please pray for safe travels and good health for us all. Please pray for my mother and my big sis Kelly - they will be "tag-teaming" Everett's care. Not an easy task. I owe them both BIG. Especially Kelly, because she is giving up her Spring Break to care for my precious little hoodlum.

Please pray for Thomas. I've tried to imagine what will be going through his mind when he sees us for the first time, and when he realizes he's leaving all that he has ever known to move to the other side of the world with people he has just met. Overwhelming, I'd say.  Please pray that we remember some of the Chinese we have learned (it's all running together in my mind right now). And please continue to pray - these are big steps on the journey, but we are really just beginning.

Love to you all....and, as promised....here are pictures of the Little Halls' room.