EP Submitted!!!!!

"Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights..."

James 1:17a

It is with humbled and overjoyed hearts that we share the wonderful news that our Emerson's Exit Permit request has been submitted for approval!!  What does this mean?  It means we are in the final home stretch of our wait!  Her EP will take about 4 to 6 weeks to be approved, and then about a week after that, we expect her to receive her travel clearance!!  The end is in sight!

I have been dreaming about this day and it's still so surreal.  I was hoping we'd hear news of EP submission today and logged on to my computer first thing in the morning.  But by 8 am, all the boards were quiet and depressing, and I hadn't received an email from our agency.  I shut down my computer dejected and resigned myself to another quiet day of no news.

I took a shower and when I got out, my landline was ringing, my cell was buzzing with texts from other adoptive parents who were hearing word that our agency in Korea had submitted their new batch.  Drenched and with just a towel on, I ran to pick up the phone but missed the call.  Then my cell rang, and it was my dear friend who works for our agency to say it was our time, and that Emerson had been submitted.

Emerson's. EP. Has. Been. Submitted.

That's all it took for the water works to start.  Then Gene started calling on my other line since by then he had received an email from our agency notifying us of the same.

All this happened more than 12 hours ago and it's STILL sinking in.

Our little Emerson is going to come home.

Home.


Praising our wonderful Lord for this day!!!