"you must begin by knowing you have already arrived"

I have always remembered those words that the great seagull Chiang said to Jonathan Livingston Seagull:
"To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is,"...."you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived."
Some things about the process of adopting our daughters from China have made me think back to that quote. It is a certainty that our first daughter Mei Li was meant to be our daughter, we just had to go get her and bring her home. As we wait to get the referral for our 2nd daughter from China, we are already there. Our hearts and minds are already there.
As I type this first blog, there are 4 months worth of people ahead of us waiting to get their referrals.
We have to re-apply with Immigration to allow us to bring a child into the US because our permission slip expires in January. We have to get re-fingerprinted- our fingerprints expire! That is kind of like thinking your DNA expires. In the meantime, we are building a pool- nothing like a big project to pass the time...at least we can see progress~~~