Getting Closer.... How I WISH my Sister could go to China with US!

Can't believe we leave in 8 days.  David gets his flu shot today and completes the typhoid meds tomorrow (why he didn't just opt for the shot who knows).  SO GET THE SHOT IF YOU HAVE TO as the meds are a pain and have lots of restrictions on when you can take them!  Still lots to do but at least we both slept last night.  I have many things pulled for us to pack (Sunday will be packing day).  We have to make it though Snickerdoodle Luke's Backyard Birthday Bash on Saturday first. 

When we went to get Luke we took my sister with us and boy was that a smart thing to do.  David got sick with the flu while we were in Guatemala and it was so nice to have someone to step in.  Luke was VERY SICK when we got him (Double Ear Infection) and severe heat rash since they layer the babies in so much clothing.  Luke cried one night for almost five hours and I strolled the room with him while Lisa patiently looked on and David was almost dying in the next room. (You know the flu for a guy is far worse than for a woman).   Lisa's MS (Multiple Sclerosis) has gotten bad.  Some days are better than others but she felt she would slow us down.  Truth is she would keep us sane and grounded.  (MIND YOU DAVID IS VERY GROUNDED but as we have gotten older we both have become more tender hearted and this will be so emotional for us).  Guess it's because of what we have been through.  While cleaning up last Saturday I found one of my ultrasound pictures.  It seems like so long ago that we went through that.  It was bittersweet.  I looked at it and looked at Luke and wondered if that child had made it would I have Luke?  Would I be going to China?  Would my friends be here bailing me out right now?  I left the picture on the dresser and everyone probably passed it a hundred times that day.  I put it in our fire proof box late that night.  I don't question why it didn't work.  What I do know is that God's plan is not always known and His plan for us was to adopt.  I am fine with that.  I am sad for David that my body failed us but I look at Luke and realize that NO DOUBT this is how it was meant to be.  I could not love him any more than what I do and David feels the same.  Our family could not either.  His cousins (all quite older) absolutely adore him and they are ALL so good with him.  He asks about his cousins all the time.  What a blessing that our life has worked out the way it has.  Infertility changed me for the better....it did not make me bitter and did not make me become tearful when I saw other pregnant women.  Yes we mourned.  We mourned the babies I couldn't carry to term just as we mourned the loss of Sophie (Luke's twin sister) whom we were going to adopt. 

So, we head to China just David and Ann.  Time to grow up I guess.  I remember when we got home with Luke and my sister left to go back to Georgia.  I stood in the driveway and cried.  I then looked at our 10 month old and thought... "OH MY, what do we do"?  I then said to myself "We take care of this beautiful little boy".... and that's what we did.