The Flu has struck our house

I have been keeping busy for the last few days. Five of the seven of us have had the flu. Poor Darrel was sick in bed on his birthday. We have had a few hectic days and some are getting better while I'm afraid for the two of us who haven't caught it, yet. Payton and I have not had it and I believe Payton may be next. She complained about her chest hurting and that she had began coughing at school today.

This was the week my hubby and I were to fly to North Carolina to attend a Medical Mission Conference with Samaritan's Purse and Franklin Graham Ministries. I have looked forward to this conference for several months and am disappointed that we had to cancel our trip. I know that God has a reason and He knows what is ahead. Fortunately, He knew I would need to be here to take care of my sick babies and hubby.

We are still waiting to hear about our pre-approval (PA) from the Chinese government. It has been three weeks since our referral, hopefully we will here soon. We also had our immigration come back last week, which we were so excited to see until I opened it up to see a rejection notice on it. It stated we were missing a page in our application. As we began looking through our paperwork, the only page I hadn't included was page 9, which is used when someone else fills out your application for you. I didn't think we would need to include it, but apparently they want to see that it is blank and that we did fill out our own application. We resent it last Friday including the blank piece of paper. This is a good example of how things are when the government is involved, things get denied for very silly reasons. Think about how bad it will be if the healthcare reform gets pushed through. What a scary thought!