SUBMITTAL DATE!

We got our submittal date today:) THIS IS DIFFERENT from our travel date...so don't get too excited:)  Our paperwork is expected to be registered with Zoya's country on February 4th.  Soon after that we should hear a travel date.  Right now we are waiting on one LAST paper (again) from Harrisburg with a shiny gold sticker.  They told me it was mailed out Friday so I spent the last three days anxiously waiting for it...I thought today for sure....open the mailbox (which I am coming to have a love/hate relationship with) and NOTHING :(  So I called Harrisburg again and the ever-so-friendly woman (sarcasm noted) told me it is possible that it could have been mailed out on Monday...but that would be the latest they sent it. Please please please pray that this document will be in our mailbox tomorrow as we need to get it to Zoya's country before that submittal date which is coming VERY SOON!  It takes at least 3 days to get the papers to her country (even when "overnighted").  I am exhausted from waiting and waiting and waiting for everything lately.  Despite the agony I feel right now, God keeps reminding us that he is in control and he cares about us.  I feel like this is the biggest roller coaster I've ever been on.  Something bad happens, then in the next minute, something so amazingly wonderful happens, then back and forth. 

IT IS EXHAUSTING!

BUT

IT

WILL

BE

WORTH

EVERY

HAPPY

AND

SAD

TEAR

WE

SHED

WHEN ZOYA IS IN OUR ARMS WHERE SHE BELONGS.