So good to have friends...

We are SO very thankful for all of our friends! You all are awesome! So encouraging. Your prayers help us make it through each day here. We can't thank you enough. Thanks for commenting on the blog and Facebook. Gives me something to do when I can't seem to sleep in the middle of the night. :) Also helps me remember to post because I know people care about what is going on here. ;) I forgot to tell you a cool story from yesterday... Some college kids stopped us on the street and asked if they could ask us a question and video the answer. We said sure (I mean...what else did we have to do anyway?). They didn't tell us what the question was, they just started taping. Guess what it was... "What is God to you?". Nice! I actually love that question! Totally not what I was expecting, but very happy to answer. What a great chance to witness a bit in the middle of a crazy busy pedestrian street in Moscow. Gotta love chances like that! Today we were VERY excited to have lunch, shopping time, and chatting fun with some new friends. They are here for the same reason and it was wonderful to have something different to look forward to today. :) Their meeting is directly after ours tomorrow. Then we will go to different baby houses to meet our kiddos. Please don't forget to pray. Here's a few specifics: -Peace with any decisions we have to make. -Trust that whatever happens is exactly what God wants and He will be our strength. -Knowledge to know if we need to pay for a doctor to clarify any medical needs or worries (we did not need this with Alia... We were totally sure that she was ours, so nothing else mattered). -Good sleep tonight -good impressions with the baby house director and workers. (this is a huge deal) -understanding and remembrance of all of the information that we will hear in a very short time -as much time as possible with our little baby There's SO much, but this is a great start. Thank you all again. Unless I'm awake all night and just happen to feel like I have something important to post (which may or may not be a good call for me to make at 2am), you probably won't hear from us until we have some news. We probably can't post any pics. Sorry, but this is normal. Of course, we will take tons! Maybe I'll do some creative editing... Hmmm...Guess you'll have to check back and see. I asked Brad at least 3 times in the last 2 weeks, "Are you sure we have to do this?" (while crying my eyes out). Each time he replied, "Absolutely. There may be a little baby in this foreign land that has no hope without us. Maybe a little guy that is supposed to be our son and we have to save him. We can't NOT go. We have to go.". That isn't the answer I was hoping for each time. I told him I didn't want to go... I didn't want to do this again. I was hoping for a country where you go for a week or so and then come home with your baby, not one where we have to go 3 times and leave the baby again... I hate that. Yet, In my heart I knew we had to go. Thank you God for this opportunity. The words to one of my favorite songs comes to mind. "Please take from me my life, when I don't have the strength to give it away to You." Another favorite song, "Got some rocks in my shoes, fears I wish I could lose, that make the mountains so hard to climb. And my heart gets so heavy with the weight of the world sometimes. There's a bag of regrets, should've beens and not yets that I keep on dragging around. And I can hardly wait til the day I get to lay them all down. But i know we're gonna make it and i know that everything He says is true. It's just a long way home (in more ways than 1)." God, may we be faithful to do what You have called us to do while here on this earth. Reveal your will to us. There are definitely rocks in my shoes tonight and fears I wish I could lose, but... I look forward to the morning.