Sunday Oct 28th

It's Sunday afternoon and the weather is cold and there is a hurricane "sandy" coming up the east coast.. We are praying that it will die down before it hits land as this could be bad for everyone including the flight for us to get out of here on Thursday morning!! We know that God is in control and we pray that all will be ok and the flights will run as scheduled.

We are so excited for this journey to China, as our little girl is waiting ( well I don't think she is excited for us to come as much as we are to get her) for us!! She is 20 months old and she has a cleft lip (which got fixed by Love Knows no Boundaries) and palate ( which we will be fixing here in the United States) when we return home!!

She is currently in a foster home called Eagles Wings in the Henan Province! It is one of the BEST places for her to be in. They are very loved there! The director of Eagles Wings is an American woman that has given up her "life" to care and run this foster care home!! She is a very compassionate woman! She deeply cares for these children, all of whom have " special needs".

We hope that the transition for her will be an easy one. We truly can't imagine what our little girl will be feeling when we take her away from all that she knows and take her with us to a hotel to live for  the remaining stay in China .....then put her on a plane for like 20 + hours and bring her to a place that we all call home but to her is all so new!! I just can't imagine what she will feel.... We will be so excited and happy to be able to just have her FINALLY HERE with us and to just sit and LOOK at her!!!

We have lots and lots and lots .... of PACKING to do so for now it's off to see how much we can stuff  into these suitcases!!

ITS  one week till GOTCHA DAY!!!! For those of you that don't know what "gotcha day" is its the day we get our beautiful little girl forever to be with us!!!

Until then WE LOVE YOU  LYDIA  JADE GOODMAN!!!