Matching Approval!!

This was a pivotal day in our adoption process.  The day we received matching approval.  What does this mean?  It means that Yeh-Sui Ye (Noah) is officially the son of Mark and Amanda Price.  Hong Kong has granted approval for us to become the legal parents of Noah.  We have been waiting 21 weeks and 2 days for this sacred approval.  As Mark and I were enjoying our celebratory glass of wine, I was reminiscing over the last several weeks.  I had become obsessed with checking my emails in between patient appointments.  I believe this was instigating my ever increasing discouragement that it wasn't coming in a timely fashion.  Today would change all that thinking.  I didn't check the email until around 3:00 this afternoon, but it was like any other email check between patients.  When I opened my email, that coveted phrase "noreply  Bethany..." was in bold print at the top of my list.  Suddenly...I couldn't even breathe.  I was surrounded by coworkers as I excitedly opened the email.  It was official... We had the approval I had been waiting on for so long!!!  I find it such a God wink that we received the approval on the 1st day of National Adoption Awareness month!  Wow, God!!!  You are so Awesome!  Incidentally,  we just finished National Down Syndrome month.  I can't help but think how perfect God's timing really is as we progress from DS month to Adoption month, and, right in the middle of it, we get our matching approval of our super awesome kiddo from Hong Kong with Down Syndrome.  Officially.....he is no longer an orphan, but finally has a mommy and a daddy!!!  I couldn't be more honored......AND EXCITED!!!!!!