Praise God! We officially have a closing date on the new house! After waiting 4 1/2 months we can finally breathe a sigh of relief and actually begin packing. :) We plan to close on August 14th and hopefully move into the new house that following weekend. I am thankful this can happen before I head back to teaching in the fall - it will give us a couple weeks to unpack and settle in. The sellers have even said we can begin moving items in the garage late July/early August since we have been waiting so long.
I am most thankful to be taking a step forward towards the adoption. We plan to settle in a bit (and recover from purchasing a house financially), but then we can start the home study process. I pray for all my children daily - the ones who are living with me now and the ones we hope to welcome into our family in the future. I anticipate the day we grow our family through this adoption with hope and dreams. We will continue to trust in HIS timing. This has definitely been a year of transitions, but God has been a part of it all.
