Tickets, Hotel, and Suitcases OH MY!!!

Well, it has been a crazy week since finding out we are really leaving!!  We feel like our list of things to get done is never ending.  Every time we seem to cross one thing off, one of us is adding 2 more to the bottom of the list......if we only had 36 hours in a day:)

Right now, we are praying that we will  get a hotel room booked somewhere!!  The nice hotel we stayed at last time has decided that they no longer want adopting families to stay there.  They have had too many complaints of crying children disturbing guests and would prefer not to deal with us.  I am sure that non-adopting families with infants have probably stayed there and that the infant may have cried during the night at some point.  It is not only adopted children that cry!!! Anyway, that is OK because I know that God has a plan for us and I am sure it includes a bed for us to sleep in for 3 weeks:) Anyway, we have spent the last 3 days searching online, looking at every hotel in the city,reading reviews and trying to come up with a place that is reasonable in price but also meets our needs.  Any good suggestions out there?  We have now recruited some friends on the ground there to help so hopefully, we will have a place booked by the end of the week. 

Also, many thanks to our family and friends that have offered to help with Nathan and Kaytlin as they are not coming with us:( We appreciate you guys going out of the way to accommodate and entertain them for such a long period of time. Thank you Mackleys, Sortinos, David and Erica, and both sets of our parents.  You guys are awesome and are such a blessing to us all.  We feel good about them being in such good hands:)

Well, everything is coming together, slowly but surely!!  I am going to get back to packing suitcases for both the Children's Place and Seth's orphanage. 150lbs of clothes, medicine, shoes, scarves, hats, blankets, socks, underwear,etc....this is a project in itself!!

Please keep Seth and Harrison (the other 6 year old boy being adopted at the same time) in your prayers....I just know that God is preparing them for their transition.

12 days a wake up,

Petrins