Travel Approval (and change)

So. . . . . . I showed my new blog to my family.  While my husband is proud of my new technical skills, my 10 year old daughter is not so impressed.  She has been mercilessly making fun of my lack of posts and pictures, (How is it a blog if there is only one thing on it?) and the name (What in the world does "Seek Ye First" mean?)  So, in an effort to defend myself - - - - -

The most exciting thing that has happened since my first post is that WE HAVE TA!!! Our agency sent us an email on Friday notifying us of TA a couple of hours after I started my blog.  TA means travel approval.  Meaning that we will travel to China within the next 90 days.  While I have been anxiously awaiting that email, actually receiving it threw me into such a panic that I could not even look at the computer until the next day.  I made poor Joe (my very sweet and patient husband) read the email to me while I took some deep breaths!!!  I do not always do well with big news.  Or change.  Or airplanes.  Or leaving my 3 kids at home (with very capable family and friends, of course) for 2 weeks.  Ahhhhhh!

But I am excited and happy, to say the least!  We have been waiting for a long time. We should know definite travel dates in the next week, I think.  And in the next month or so, I will meet my son.  Wow, that sounds strange.  And I will finally know what it is like to have a little boy in the family.

In answer to Katherine's second question - What in the world does "Seek Ye First" mean? - I think that one will have to wait for another day.  I only have so much time between putting my crazy girls to bed and getting my own relaxing nightly bath!  But it has something to do with Matthew 6:33.  And Jesus.  And also with a song I learned at a summer camp that I went to as a teenager.  One that Jesus used to change my life.  So I guess sometimes, maybe even a good bit of the time, change is a really, really good thing!