All I want for Christmas....

Christmas is here. I love Christmas. Most folks do. I love presents. I love making my wish list months in advance. I love the anticipation of the gifs I'll receive. I love opening my gifts and seeing which ones from my wish list made it under the tree.

But not this year.

As I shop for others, I'm not inclined at all to wish for myself.

I've lost that desire to have a material possession under my tree this year.

All I want for Christmas is JOY.

The 'joy' that comes from the Lord.

Both the 'spiritual joy'


....and....

the Living-breathing-gonna-be-my-daughter-JOY!



I am so glad the Lord is bringing this JOY into our life. So thrilled she will change our lives. So happy that we are coming down to our last few months of waiting. So elated that 2012 will see her home.

Merry Christmas. Happy New Year.

and

May the JOY of the Lord be your Strength this year.

Happily Waiting on LID

LID = Log In Date

This is the date that China takes our dossier off the stack on someones desk and "logs" it into their computer system. That date is so very important. Because then they start processing our adoption. :-) That's a happy-happy day. I really feel like our LID will be this week. We won't hear from China or our agency for several more weeks but when we do hear from them, the dossier usually has already been logged in for about 3 weeks. It just takes that long to hear back from them. So this should be the week. I'm excited.

After the LID, then we wait about 45-60 days (or so) to get the Formal Referral of Ms. Joy. How very exciting!!!

It's all really happening.

She's really coming home in a few months.

Happy-happy!