They’re back!! I am so excited I can hardly stand it!
In the previous 48+ hours they had slept only 4. The flight went from Uganda to Dubai (UAE). Dubai to JFK in New York City (where we incidentally were handed a son – Tyler! – over 22 years ago)…JFK to Dulles where they had a lllllong 5 hour layover, then Dulles to Albuquerque and then a 4+ hour drive home from Albuquerque. They slept a bit on two of the flights.
So early this morning, somewhere around 1 am Emma texted me to say that they were on our road. I was waiting up for them….working a bit on Jubilee’s dossier and emailing back and forth with my sweet friend who lives in California and is also adopting her 8th! (She also has a son who is a Ranger.) There was no way I could sleep knowing they were almost here!
Before long I could see the truck headlights turn down our long lane. I started flashing that front light furiously! When I stepped out of the house there was my best friend Dw running to meet me, crying his little eyes out! He was so excited to see me.
I hugged him and hugged Emma and hugged him some more and hugged Emma some more. I said to Emmy, “How are you?” This precious daughter Emma, who has been praying since she was 7 that God would allow her one day to go to Africa as a missionary said, “Ready to go back!”
We (Graham came out to hug them both, looked at a few pics and headed back to his bunk) sat around looking at some of the pictures which Emma had taken. They were amazing! I can’t wait to see the rest.