Out of our hands

And it's off! Our dossier is on an overnight trip to our agency's office as we speak. I went this morning and made 3 copies of everything and then we crammed it all into a flat rate Express Mail envelope. Honestly, it's not as much paperwork as I thought it would be, but I am still impressed with our stack.

Three sets of everything!

Haven wanted to carry it down to the post office (we walk to ours), but then decided it was too heavy for her.
Not our best family portrait, what with the sick Cale, the glaring glasses and the goofy girl, but it's a historic day in the history of our family and we wanted to remember it. (Sadly, this is the best picture we could get after several tries!)

And just like that, it's out of our hands. It's certainly been in the Lord's hands all along, but physically letting go of all that we've been working towards for the last 5 months is a huge moment. I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the idea that all these pieces of paper some how will add up to us adding another child to our family. I'm not quite there yet, but I've got a 5-7 month wait ahead of me to figure it out.

-kate-