Woo Hoo - What a Weekend!

The meet and greet for the concert wasn't until after the concert was over. We thought it would be during the opening acts, so we thought we would be able to leave early, but alas we didn't.

PRAISE: The venue that hosted the concert had a nursing moms room. They offered the room for our use: diaper changes etc. We took her at intermission and too our great surprise, the room had a crib. Lily's always gone to sleep very easily, so we looked at each other and said - Hey, why not try. We turned out the lights, gave her her blanket, and laid her down. Out like a light. We just traded off turns returning to the concert. You could still hear almost everything from the room, so we still got hear the songs when we took our turns watching our little girl sleep. She was still cranky for the meet and greet, but not unbearable.

SCC had all three girls and Marybeth with him, so we were able to meet Shaoey and MB too. Maria and Stevie Joy went out on stage earlier, but were already asleep on the bus. Shaoey even signed a Shaoey and Dot book (book SCC MB co-wrote about adoption from China) with her Dad for us! The trip home was long, but we hit our pillows safe and sound at 2:15 am! Even bigger

PRAISE: Lily did awesome during the service. Our Pastor did an excellent job presenting the gospel and telling the story of a little girl from China (even pronounced her Chinese name correctly) who had ben orphaned and eventually found a family. At the end of the little story, he asked the audience if they would like to meet "Xu/Lily" They responded with a verbal Yes. The three of us walked up the middle aisle.

Our pastor said, " Come to your pastor". Lily literally ran to him in her squeaky shoes holding my finger. He held her for several more minutes and she didn't even bother his microphone! She had the church in stitches and tears all at the same time. I nearly bawled. We were at the church from 8:45 am to 12:30 (we participated in the early and late service with a brunch in between. I know some may think we were crazy for even attempting it knowing we were going to be out of town the night before, but we couldn't say no to God and an opportunity to actively participate in telling the salvation story.

God is good and his time is PERFECT Keep the faith. There is a reason for your struggles. You never know when an opportunity to minister to others will result. I never saw this coming!

Over the moon (in spite of the lack of sleep)!