We Are HOME

Well after an unexpected 4 hour delay in Detroit due to snow and ice, we are finally home! We landed in ATL last night around 10PM. There were lots of heart warming faces there ready to welcome us home. Coming up the escalator to see everyone was such a wonderful experience. It is such a reminder of how much our family was missed and loved :)

It was definitely a LONG journey home, but we are here. The kids did great on the trip home-all of them. We had no troubles from the kids or anything on the flights except of course the torturous long flights. Once we landed in Detroit in the snow and ice, we wound up in a big mess at the airport that had us waiting for our luggage for 2 hours. So of course we then missed our ATL flight along with everyone else at the airport who also missed their connecting flights, so we then had to wait another long hour in a line to rebook our next flight home. They said that the luggage door on the plane was frozen shut and that was the delay. Not really sure about that considering that about 3 other flights were delayed in the luggage department too. Oh well it worked out and fortunately for us our children were wonderful during the fiasco. The girls slept the whole time in the stroller and the boys dealt with it.

Just to make our trip home a little dramatic, we LOST Travis at the Detroit airport! Yes, LOST!! Sheila and the kids and I were around the corner from the gate CJ was sitting at. We were playing with some toys when Travis wanted to go get his iPod from his dad. I said OK since it was just next door. Well 10-15 minutes later when Travis didn't return, Sheila went over to CJ and realized Travis never made to him. Panic set in and CJ was off and searching as was I. Sheila went to the desk to report him gone, and they immediately said that they had Travis all the way at the OTHER END of the airport! He had just kept walking the entire time he was missing down the long airport and then he finally stopped and told someone he was lost :(. Thank goodness he was smart enough to do that and he gave him his name and my cell phone number! By this point, security was already in route and CJ ran to meet Travis who was scared to death-poor kid. Obviously lesson learned is no matter how tired one is, don't ever let one of your kids out of sight at a busy airport!!


Needless to say, it was the longest Friday in history for us. But we did it and we are home and we are super blessed to be a completed family of 6. I know Sheila was THRILLED to be united with Scott and her family as it was definitely a long hard trip for her to be away from them for so long. I am grateful for their sacrifices and not sure how we are going to make it now without her help with the baby. I guess I am "on my own" now as a mom to 4! Good thing I don't go back to work for another 5 weeks so I can get it all figured out ;)

This was truly a great trip to China and we are so blessed to have been chosen to take this journey to our daughter. We owe it all to God and our so fortunate that he blessed this trip the entire time and brought us home safe and sound :)

“For this child I prayed,and the Lord has granted me what I asked of Him.”~ I Samuel 1:2