an extra week

we had our appointment yesterday morning.  the one we had been waiting on for so long.  the one that we heard about early thanksgiving morning in an email that said December 6th, 10am.
we got up & read & talked & prayed yesterday.  we talked about how we felt like God was preparing us for something discouraging.  we talked hesitantly because you hate to talk like that, ya know?  but the truth is that the Spirit was preparing us for things to go not as expected.  and the thing is, this whole process we sort of just expect the unexpected.
we walked past old cathedrals & statues, down stone streets to the building where our appointment was to be held.  we waited & matt was calm & normal as if he was hanging out at the starbucks off joyce, but i was fidgetting & impatient.  we finally walk back to a small office where our facilitator talks to women behind desks full of folders for quite sometime.  there was head shaking & a tone that said "not great news, but not horrible" & that is what they had for us.
we had gotten that appointment based on the order of which our paperwork was received.  however, lena's 5th birthday & when she becomes available for international adoption is next week.  so they gave us the original appointment as candidates for adoption & were ready to show us folders of other children yesterday.  to which, we of course say... no thank you, we wait for lena.  difficult to explain but that's the short of it.  so, our appointment is next tuesday, december 13 at 2pm.  we wait an extra week.  we have connected with some missionary folks here & we'll have a free place to stay for most of the extra week.  God provides in the coolest ways.

this morning we shuffled iTunes & the first song was Mat Kearney belting out:
"nothing worth anything ever goes down easy"
we know this to be true... & sweet daughter is of course more than worth all these stinkin setbacks!!!