Friday morning I woke up and was prompted to ask the Lord to orchestrate our day. It was something that a wise woman of the Lord had told me once at Bible study that she often does. I knew there were a lot of details and timing that needed to work out for us to get home and so I prayed that God would make it all work out. We met our guide at 5:30 am as planned and we got to the airport in Guangzhou in plenty of time for our 8 am flight. We boarded the plane and everything went smoothly until they announced that we couldn't depart because Beijing airport wasn't ready to accept our flight. They had a lot of rain and there were parking lots under water, etc. So we sat. They announced again that the flight would be delayed one hour. Then when it was about an hour later they told us it was delayed indefinitely! Some began to stress about how we would make it to our connecting flight on time. I started to stress too but then remembered that God had this in his control. We were able to leave shortly after 10 am. We landed in Beijing and had to collect our bags and find the international area, go through the check in process, grab something to eat and it was time to board the next flight after going through several more check points before we could actually get on the plane. We made it and we were headed home! We landed at 5:30 pm and made it through customs in a really short amount of time. We found our good friends waiting for us to give us a ride home! We got home and saw our 3 girls again and life was good! God answered my prayer to orchestrate our day! He had it under control the whole time!
Zeke had an ok time on the plane. He was very much lacking sleep and wouldn't slow down. We had purchased a seat for him know that it was such a long flight we didn't want to try to hold him the entire 13 hours. He was jumping from Bruce to me - across the empty seat repeatedly. Finally after he had been awake about 17 hrs straight (minus a 30 min cat-nap between flights) and he wasn't calming down we decided to give him a little Benadryl. It helped him to settle down a little and he napped on the seat between us but he kept rolling from side to side and we had to stay awake to make sure he wasn't going to roll onto the floor. We were exhausted when we got home.
Zeke went to bed shortly after we arrived home and he slept for a couple of hours and then he screamed bloody murder for about an hour. He was so mad - he clenched his fists and made his body stiff. He was ANGRY! Where did we take him and why did it smell and look and sound so different? He didn't want us to touch him. We just stayed beside him and kept saying "mama here, dada here". Eventually he settled down but didn't want to sleep for several hours. Bruce slept and I stayed up with him. About 3 am I got him to settle back down and we both slept until almost 9 am.
Saturday was a good day. He opened up to his sisters very quickly. He didn't really want them to touch him on Friday night but by Sat. mid morning he was letting Hannah hold his hand and was playing with them all! It was good to see how quickly he joined in with them.
Saturday night went a little better than the first night. Zeke slept until about 5:30 am. He played pretty well with the girls again today. Eden is quite jealous and wants me to hold her and then Zeke wants me to hold him too but they don't like it if I try to hold both of them - they push each other away!
Bruce and I don't really feel very good. Not sure if it's the jet-lag or if we caught something. We feel like we are in a fog, not much of an appetite, tired but can't sleep. So you can pray that we begin to feel better. And that Eden and Zeke will both feel loved by us.
Thanks for all of you who have been following and praying for us during this journey. It has meant a lot to us to hear that so many people care!
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