Last minute preparations!

Although we have about a month before travel, I'm calling everything we're trying to do last minute preparations. There is so much to do before we travel beyond just booking flights and hotel.

For starters, Christmas shopping takes time from other things we would like to do to prepare for travel. Thankfully our families are understanding of this and don't mind just getting gift cards to their favorite store.

We also have so many things we want to get done around the house. We finally have Noah's room ready, but that's only paint and furniture so far. We still would like to decorate it further, but may wait until we know what he likes. We have decided to get a lot done now so when we return there won't be distractions from the constant family time we would like to enjoy.

Travel preparation is getting underway, but we're finding that flights are fairly expensive around Christmas and New Year's. With the money we've already spent, though, it's not too bad.

I'll try to update this as often as possible while we're in Taiwan. Right now we plan to leave Christmas Day, pick Noah up at Cathwel 12/28, AIT 12/30 and get documents 12/31. We will be staying and enjoying the country until January 7th, so that we can begin building memories as a family in Noah's birth country.

We wish everyone the best and hope for speedy news of bringing your little ones home.

-Tom

Great News!!!

We got our call yesterday before church.

We will be traveling December 26th. Incredibly, today is my (Tom's) birthday and we learned yesterday of our travel date. Then to find that it's right after Christmas!. It's great to know we'll have Noah in our arms December 28th, before the year is over. We will also celebrate New Year's in Taipei. Now to finish our list of things we wanted to accomplish before we bring him home. I have a big honey-do list.

We continually pray for safe travel for ourselves and all the other families who are waiting to hear that call of a referral or travel date.