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YAY! We got the call we’d been holding our breath for all day tonight at 7pm! AGCI is 3 hours behind us and they close at 4:30 on Fridays, so looks like they called me just before shutting down for the day. And our numbers?! Well, they have to wait until Monday! Am I serious?! I know, that’s what I said! For whatever reason, our case worker said that they would give me my numbers first thing on Monday morning. Not sure why—but that’s just the way it’s gonna work I guess—and you know what?! I’ll take it! Because our being waitlisted means…

…our paper chase is OVER!

…I can finally not fret about notaries, redoing paper work or one of my preschoolers deciding to our dossier is a coloring book…a little fear of mine–and thank goodness that never happened before mailing it all in!

…we are one step closer to our baby!!!

I jokingly told several people that I did NOT even care what our numbers were as long as we were wait listed. I guess God decided to take me up on that one…and keep all of us in suspence…so this weekend we celebrate being on the official wait list…and Monday we’ll have good news again! I love the way God works some times. Some times things are just TOO great, and He just likes to spread things out to make the celebrating spread out as long as possible!

Stay tuned for Monday:). YAY! I’m SOOOOO excited!!!

Christie, our AGCI case worker, emailed me today to let me know she had my dossier and home study sitting safely on her desk, and it will be reviewed on Friday with all the other dossiers…in the order they were received. YAY! Please pray with us that the dossier is complete and no revisions are necessary…we are so excited and anxious to get our numbers!!! We did not make a gender request, and we were told without a request we would most likely get to the bottom of the boy list first…but a friend of ours told us she has actually seen the lists change during her time with AGCI and it’s quite possible for things to change for us too. We are almost officially “pregnant” but we’ll still be watching the numbers month to month to see what our “ultrasound” will say! The exciting thing about adoption—is on your “ultrasound day”…referral day…you find out not only whether you will be the mommy of a boy or girl…but you ALSO see their picture, their sweet little face—and you fall in love in a different, miraculous way! We are just excited to almost have a number!

I’M REALLY GOING TO BE A MOMMY AGAIN! I get to go across the world and see my baby for the FIRST time…and he (or she!) will be MY CHILD! FOREVER! It’s REALLY happening!!! I am really, really, really going to get to be a mommy again! And now without a business. I get to mommy 4 children and be 100% ALL mommy! I can’t believe how GOOD the Lord is!!! I’m just so excited!!!!

Now…Debby Downers. I still have a couple more weeks of editing and work. I’m up editing away tonight…but had to pop in and jot something on our adoption blog. I was terrible about updating my photography blog–but this adoption blog…addicted. Completely and utterly addicted. It’s so therapuetic for me to rehash our day and what’s ahead…and it’s really fun to also grab some of you and bring you on our journey with us.

On a random / fun / day in the life kind of note—we completed our filming debut for the movie “Live As We Know It” tonight! Stay tuned for the funny details…but the most fun part—I shared our adoption with Kathryn Hiegel and even gave her some really fun 147 Million Orphan tshirts, necklaces and hats that Gwen gave me to give her. VERY FUN! She was so excited and loved the beaded necklaces especially! They are TOO cool…you can buy some here: http://147millionorphans.com/

I’ve got pictures from our night—even a cute one of Kathryn and Miss Laney bug…we had dinner with the actors, actresses, set staff after shooting tonight too…Kelly and I had fun—but I must say we have completely gotten the movie thing out of our system! Fun to say we did it, but sitting in a room from 2pm-10pm waiting on and off for your time to roll…and between the 2 of us we had FIVE little ones UNDER FIVE…man, it was crazy…but fun and we met a lot of really neat people. And I even got to share Wiphan Care Ministries with a few…you just never know who might want to be a part of what God is doing in Zambia through Wiphan! http://www.wiphan.org/

And last but not least…I’m so excited because guess what I just bought tickets to while taking a break from editing??? I bought 2 kids tickets (Frank will sit this one out…sorry bud–it’s past your bedtime) and 2 adult tickets for December 19th (my bday) to take our crew to…

Just got the word from our home study agency that copies have been made and everything is notarized! Everything will arrive via FedEx in my hands TOMORROW (Tuesday). YAY! And that means…I’ll be joggin, break dancing and singing all the way to the FedEx store to next day ship our dossier, home study and check to AGCI. YAY! So…everything should arrive to AGCI on Wednesday and hopefully we won’t have any revisions…and then we’ll get a number! OH HAPPY DAY!

Look how our dossier has been patiently waiting on our kitchen island for the last week or so…