TENTATIVE TRAVEL!!!!!!!

We received an e-mail from our agency last night with tentative travel dates!!!! They hope to have something concrete by Friday! They told us to get to HCMC on October 29th and leave Hanoi on November 24th. Yes that is right - November 24th. I guess we will get held up by the APEC conference. They hope we won't have to stay the entire 4 weeks - but they can't promise anything. We are currently talking with a travel agent so that we can put our tickets on hold until we get confirmation from our agency!

Now we start preparing like crazy!! I think I will be doing this by myself mostly because my husband is going to have to put in more hours in order to be gone for an entire month. He can do alot from VN with his laptop - but the more he can get done now, the more time he will have to spend with us in VN and not his laptop. I have to wrap up a few projects at work as well, but hopefully I will be done by mid-next week so that I can focus on the house before we go. My friend is staying here while we are gone to take care of our dog, Charlie (130lb yellow lab). I want the house spotless before she lives here for a month.

If the travel arrangements stay as they are now, we will be bringing Brenden home a few days before his 1st birthday!! I guess we will have a welcome home/1st birthday combined party. I can't think of anything better!!!!

Last night on my way to dinner I had a heart to heart talk with God. I started to tell Him about how angry I was inside because nothing in this adoption process has gone the way I had hoped.
It is taking much longer than we were told it would, along with other things that were promised that were proven untrue. As I was letting it all out, I just started repeating this verse over and over -
"Trust the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your way acknowledge Him and He will make your path straight."
As I was repeating it, "lean not on your own understanding" kept jumping out at me and I realized that was exactly what I was doing!! I have to keep remembering that I don't have to understand why things have gone differently than promised - I just have to remember and trust that God IS in control of this not me. It is not my understanding - but His!! When I got home from dinner with my husband I got the e-mail about travel. GOD IS GOOD!!!

Well I am off to the store to start purchasing supplies!!!!