7 days But Who's Counting!!!

I feel like a little kid counting down the days on the calendar until Christmas. I am so excited we are down to 7 days until our court date. I am giddy beyond words. It reminds me of the last few weeks of my pregnancies, less the stretch marks and weight gain. My emotions and mind are all over the place. I am not sleeping, my mind is like a tornado of thoughts, things to do, what to bring, visions of our first moments with the Sof and Helen and how to manage 5 kids.
It's funny we have been waiting what seems like forever and yet I am SO unprepared! I am scrambling each day trying to figure out what we need to do in order to get the house ready and yet spend some quality time with Reagan and Caitlin knowing I will be away from them for over a week. Blake is away at Boy scout camp this week. He called yesterday while we were out and left a message saying he was having a great time and not to worry. I miss him terribly. With my emotions being easily rattled these days, I find myself looking to Greg and the kids for my security right now. I believe I am officially in the "nesting phase". And having Blake out of my nest is unsettling to me!
We spent the weekend buying the last furniture items needed for complete both Sof's and Helen's room. I can't wait to fill them with the kids now. It is starting to feel like it's really going to happen. I am praying hard for all to go smoothly on the 2nd or else someone is going to have to pry me from a ledge!
It's funny, yet Greg and I have had 3 children already we feel like first timers. This is a whole new ball game. Our new additions are not babies so right off the bat we have children in motion, speaking a different language, with different habits, schedules, emotional issues we will be faced with. I just want it to go well. I am sure the first months will be survival, I am just hoping and praying Sof and Helen will find happiness, peace, security and love as members of our crazy Mott family.
Our agency's coordinator Grace, and fellow adoptive mother is over in ET right now picking up her son Ateneh, one of Sof's best friends, and spending some time at the orphanages checking on everyone's kids. What a saint she is!! Did I mention she brought her other two daughter's Miranda who is 19(?) and her Addis who is 1 year (she brought her home January from ET). So she is one busy mama. She passed on an update for us stating that Sof loves Helen and constantly runs up to her and hugs her, just as we had prayed! So good news! Thanks Grace for taking the time to share that with us. Not that I will sleep better knowing, but it warms my heart to hear about them.

So, God willing, if we pass court on the 2nd, we will be possibly leaving on July 25. Wow, just 1 month from today. So much to do and so little time!!

Father God, I thank you for this journey, even if it has stressed me out, rattled my nerves, questioned my faith at times, and scattered my brain (what's left of it), I would do it all over again! I am so grateful for all that has come from it as well, our children; new friendships; appreciation for this country that we have been blessed to be born in; for the awareness of this awesome world that you have created filled with different cultures, traditions and lifestyles and yet to know we were all woven from the same thread by you. That no matter where on earth we were born your blood runs through all of us giving us life and making us part of one family!