Our adoption: 8 weeks

How Far Along: 8 weeks
How I'm feeling: relief that all 6 of us have finished strep throat!  :)  Wowsa!
Gender: g-g-g-g-g-irl?
Total bills so far: $7962.89
Bills this week: 0
Ways God is working: It looks like we are a month ahead of where we were at with Sammy's adoption... That might be swallowed up by the fact that this adoption isn't medically expedited, but it might also mean that the Lord is putting a tail wind on everything and going to again perform miraculous feats for getting Jemma home for next summer!  :)  I'm hopeful!
Things learned: that according to the suggested timeline given by our social worker, we're looking at going to China next October...
Stuff we've done for the adoption this week: Phil completed the marriage study; Orientation Interview with Lifeline social worker; signed off and initialed documents for the home study; created a simple adoption timeline for the fridge; 
What I am looking forward to: PA! PA! PA!  Come on PA!!!  Also, I'm hoping our I800a can be sent to USCIS soon!
Praying: That we can get pre-approval before Thanksgiving.
Pictures of the week:
Everyone had strep this week (yes - all 6):

The three littlest stayed home from church with Daddy to finish getting better - looks like they had a super fun time!  Daddy built them a ship!!