Remember the "tomorrow, tomorrow..." posting?

Well, now tomorrow really IS tomorrow. We leave tomorrow. I have never been so prepared for a trip in my life! Yesterday I picked up antibiotics for all four of us, just in case. I added those to every over the counter remedy and I look like I'm going on a "doctors without borders" mission. I never do this for trips to Argentina or Uruguay, though I should have for Brazil...I guess it's because we don't speak the language. I can't just walk into a pharmacy there and say, I have a sore throat, and get it taken care of.

I can't wait to tell my table of women at Women's Bible Study this morning that we leave tomorrow. And tell Isabelle's Kids Club teachers too. They know all about "Nicholas" from Isabelle. Everything is just coming together now that the timing is right. Even, the glitches have a purpose. Just one example, Justin got delayed about 4 hrs at the Miami Airport last night and his Blackberry was out of juice, so he took a shower at the business travelers lounge. He said it was great because he felt refreshed and changed into more comfortable clothes, and when he was done, Ms. Blackberry was all charged up. Well, when he told me that and I put it together with the 6 hr layover in London, voila'. You guessed it. I am taking a shower in London! Whooopie. Ok, I better have some breakfast. Obviously my hunger pangs should not go ignored.

On a serious note, I realized this morning that this journey has been so amazing already. People we've known for years and people I've just met thru their own adoption stories are surrounding us with love and praying for our protection, and it is just so awesome to feel at the center of what God is doing. I read a quote that stuck with me, "God has a way of using the insignficant to accomplish the impossible." That's how I feel in His hands. I am so insignficant. So pock-marked by the mistakes of my life, the misuse of my tongue, the misleading of the world, and yet He can use me. He is so amazing.