We are CLEARED!!!

   We are cleared!  Well that's what the email said from the US Embassy.  It's the email we've been waiting for for over a year now.  Right now it seems so surreal, like I can't really believe it's FINALLY here.  We have our flights booked, our guest house reserved and all our travel arrangements made. We leave Wed., May 30 from Atlanta and will be back Fri., June 8.  Please pray that the girls will warm right back up to us. There are going to be so many changes for their little hearts and minds to adjust to. Imagine what it would be like to leave everything you know...to lose all sense of familiarity, and to have to acclimate to a whole new way of life. Think about what it would be like to have to embrace a culture so different from what you are used to.....and I mean COMPLETELY different ... now imagine that you cannot understand what anyone is saying or ask questions because you do not even speak the same language as everyone around you. That is what our little love bugs will be facing. Please pray specifically for our flight home. They've only ridden in a car twice (to our knowledge) and that was a challenge for them, so a plane is definitely going to be a new experience for sure, and twenty-seven hours in flight is a long time for anybody!!!
     Please join us in praying that their transition will be the best that it can be. We are not being unrealistic... we know there will be obstacles to face... but we would be foolish not to "make our requests known to God." We know full well the power of prayer, as we watch Him work miracles in our lives over and over and over again. We are reminded time and time again about the importance of prayer through out scripture. If that was not enough it is, but if it wasn't we know that Jesus Himself.. the blameless, spotless lamb of God wrapped in human flesh, chose to spend His time just prior to His crucifixion talking to His heavenly Father. I can't think of a more ringing endorsement this side of heaven!!!
    Now all there is left to do is a few final touches to the girl's room, to pack our bags of donations, and load up all we'll need for the trip. If I can ask one more request of you, please pray for Alex and Avery while we are gone. This is by far the longest we have ever been away from them, and I can tell that they are both feeling a little anxious already. For all of you guys here in Muscle Shoals, love on our babies good for us please!

For everyone that has been a part of bringing our girls home... we are so thankful for you....and....it's finally happened... it's finally here... they're coming home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love to you all,
Millie & Nick

                             

and we're almost there...almost there.

   So we started this journey officially last April. There were Home Study interrogations  interviews. There were mounds and mounds of forms. There were federal police clearances. There were classes to take, papers to be notarized, books to be read, and on and on and on. Then on a Wednesday night there was a "transition plan" call that rocked our world, and set us clearly on the path to the twin baby girls He had chosen to be a part of our family. It didn't seem to matter that they were just brought up casually in that conversation. It didn't deter us one bit that we were told there would more than likely be NO WAY that their paper work would be done in time for our referral. Then on that blessed day in December we receive the call we had been waiting on for so long.... "Mr. Wiginton... you know those twin girls that I mentioned back on your conference call? They are ready for referral, and we need to know if you guys are open to adopting twins." ARE WE OPEN TO ADOPTING TWINS??? Ummm, let us pray about that ;)

And then came these.....

Be still my heart....

and then today after months of waiting, and waiting, and waiting some more.... We get the email we have been waiting on. The girls birth parent interview is scheduled for this coming Monday at 1:00pm (that would be around 5 a.m. here)! This is the last step for us in getting cleared by the Embassy and getting our appointment to go get our girls! We are sooo excited and so covet your prayers that the interview will go well for their birth mom, and that the Embassy gets all the information they need to clear us to come get them. We will update as soon as we hear something from the interview!