Nachos in Moscow

Completely stuffed...the two of us are sitting in the lobby on couches that are a bit too low and make our fully tummies a bit sore.  We ate at the Flat Iron Grill tonight in the lounge of our hotel.  It was very nice.  We had heard that the ribs were excellent, sorry Dad, they were out of that tonight.  We started with nachos because I missed guacamole almost as much as the girls.  We had a traditional Russia Borsch soup tonight, which we had the first night in Kaluga (even though we didn't mean to order it) and Claire had scallops with ratatouille while I had stroganoff (which was reported to be a Russian dish - I always thought it to be German I leave that to Jill to help determine).  Claire thinks the Germans stole the recipe during WWII.  All was very good.

We had a revelation tonight about Vasa.  I think this is very interesting.  God put the call in Claire's heart about two years ago for us to adopt.  We prayed, talked to you all and eventually decided that the timing was not quite right for us to adopt.  As we thought back over our time tonight, it dawned on us that Vasa was placed in the Kaluga home right at two years ago.  We were told that Vasa regularly asked if anyone was coming to visit him.  In his heart, he may have been asking God for someone to come and visit him.  God answered that prayer by putting in Claire's heart the desire to adopt.  In His perfect timing we are here.  Knowing Vasa, loving Vasa, and ready to take him into our family.  Isn't that incredible!  To think that I would not have thought twice about never adopting but Father had His little boy out there waiting for us.  A high school couple from GA who had three perfect little girls and two of the most amazing nephews to share with a small boy who was all but forgotten about in a town south of Moscow.  While most had forgotten God had not!  He was grooming us to come and show the love of our Heavenly Father to Vasa.  To show him what a family is like - but mind you just as God often does - he is not bringing Vasa into just any family but one that is so full of love, care and abandon for one another that Vasa may never grasp how fully his little hopes were answered!

Thanks to each of you as you play an important role in who Claire and I are as people, as a couple and as parents.  We are so thankful to have the opportunity to share each of you with this precious little boy.  There will be some challenges to come.  At this point, we still don't even understand Vasa and he doesn't understand us.  I remember the story from Bible school classes where God confused the tongues of men thus causing us to have different languages.  I believe and have been praying that He would unlock the mystery of languages for Vasa and our family so that we quickly would adapt to Russian/English.

Just wanted to post a few last thoughts before we roll ourselves off the couch and into the elevator for the night.  Moscow might be rockin on a Thursday night but these two Georgians will never know!  Love you all - Josh and Claire