So far, so good!

Our Thanksgiving was great! We got Maisie on Wednesday afternoon and she stayed with us until Friday evening. She was so much fun! She definitely has more energy than I do, but Robert did well keeping up with her! He is a pro with kids. He seems to never run out of energy and always knows what to say to make her laugh! It's really sweet.

Maisie and the dogs bonded too! She wanted Piper to sleep with her, but after about 15 minutes of Piper crawling all over her and sitting on her head, she opted for Romeo. He LOVED it! He is already spoiled by us as it is, & she just fed right into it! He snuggled with her every night she was here and stayed pretty close by her during the day.

She seemed very comfortable here at the house. We went to the park for a little while on Thanksgiving day. She and Robert "raced" down the slides. He really is the best playmate.

I took her back to the Children's Home on Friday, and she seemed okay with going back. She did talk a lot about Christmas and wanted to be sure she was going to come back to our house soon. I assured her that I would make sure she could come back for Christmas, if not sooner.

We are going to spend the day with her in Jackson on Saturday. We are super excited because my parents and Aidan are going to meet us at Chuck E Cheese so they can meet Maisie too! All of our families have waited so long now to meet her, so I'm super excited for this part of the process!

We will have her again for a long weekend on the 16th. We plan on going to Robert's daddy's house to have Christmas with them that weekend. She'll meet his daddy, step-mother, sister, nephew, brother-in-law, and two younger brothers. They are all very excited about meeting her.

We'll have her the 23rd - 27th for Christmas! It seems almost surreal to think that when we finished our paper work in February, we both said we hoped we would have a child by Christmas! God really does work all things out for HIS glory. I would have never imagined after all the change we went through this summer, that we would for real have a child by Christmas. AMAZING...

Continue to pray for Maisie. She's never experienced a "forever" family. She knows we intend on adopting her, and she is excited about that, but I think she really can't wrap her mind around FOREVER.

Pray that she transitions well from the Children's Home to our home easily.

We know that God has brought us to her, and that we are in His will. We also know that when you are in the center of God's will, the devil attacks hard. Pray for our protection as a family.