5/13/07

Mother's Day

Well this will be somewhat short, as it is 10:30 pm Sunday, and we get our beautiful little Gracie in about 12 hrs. It was quite a busy day again, all on about 6 hours of sleep since we left DFW on Thursday AM. We went to Tiennamen Square today and the Forbiddin City, an incredible amount of history and a ton of people. The most exciting thing we did today was go to an International Church Service in Beijing. It was very much like our service at home and the title of the sermon was "All God's Children are Adopted", it was very emotional as they also celebrated Mother's Day also. We are now in Changsha (Hunan), our babies will be brought to the Civil Affairs Building tomorrow around 10, then we have several steps of paperwork to do and then they are ours. It still hardly seems real! Hope all you MOM'S AND MOM'S TO BE HAVE A WONDERFUL MOTHER'S DAY!

Deena

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Rick and Deena,

What a wonderful way to share your journey with everyone! It is now about 8:00 p.m. here, and we're so anxious that you'll soon have Gracie in your arms. What a wonderful Mother's Day present!
Love and blessings!
Julie and Craig

Anonymous said...

Hey guys!!
We have loved reading everything that you have been doning. Good education for Michael's home schooling!!! Can't wait to see pictures of the union with your sweet daughter!!! Thank you for sharing this incredible moment with all of us.
WE LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU LOTS!
Mike, Heather, and the crew.

Jim Seibold said...

It's 10:00 pm now and we know you must be holding your sweet baby daughter! Can't wait to see her and hold her ourselves.

You guys did a great job with the testimony at church today!