Home at last!

Dear Family and Friends,

Sorry it has taken me so long to post but the days are just melting away and the jet lag is torture! My daughter is struggling with changing her former days into night and Mom is exhausted!

We arrived home very late on Saturday night. The day was long as we were up at 4:30 AM to be ready to leave for the airport in Guangzhou at 5:45 AM. Sophie slept most of the way from Guangzhou to Beijing. We had a 5 hour layover there before leaving for Chicago at 5:30 (local time). We had a phenomenal tail wind and arrived an hour early in Chicago - God answered every one's prayers that we would make our connecting flight to Manchester! We certainly needed every minute of that extra hour as it seemed everything that could possibly delay us getting through immigration and then customs, seemed to come up! But there too God gave us His blessings by providing us with people who expedited us along!

Sophie became a U.S. citizen the moment her Chinese passport was stamped by the Immigration officials! Hip, hip, hooray!

We were welcomed at the airport in Manchester by my sister in law and my niece and nephew, Gillian and Jared, as well as my good friends from church, Maria and Lucie! It was so good to see family and friends at that point. Thanks to you all for being there!

I will try to download new pictures soon so you can see my little pumpkin - you will have to wait for those from Forever Family Day as they are in my brother's camera and he will need to provide me with copies of those.

Thank you for all your prayers and support,

Love and blessings to all,

Chinamom and Sophie