30 More Minutes

We leave in 30 minutes to go to the Civil Affairs office.  We have had breakfast and showers.  My backpack is packed with diapers and snacks.  Tim's has the cameras.
 
I go back and forth between complete calm - so calm that the rational side of my mind questions whether all of this is even real - and butterflies and sweaty palms.  Life is about to change, and I am having trouble picturing that change. 
 
Please pray for us.  All of us.  Jack, the other three kids, me and Tim.  We are excited and anxious and worried and happy, all at the same time. 
 
(I know my video and some of my posts and photos aren't showing up.  You haven't missed much - mostly a recounting of Beijing, which was pretty much like our 2008 trip.)