Soooo close, just not close enough

We received our article 5 today and are now officially awaiting the very last piece of paper - TA (travel approval). Our agency said "you need a Christmas miracle" in order to make it into the January 3 or 10th travel groups; if we do not, we have to wait until February 7th (no one can travel to adopt anywhere near Chinese New Year).  TA can take between 7 and 21 days. Ours needs to arrive close to the 7 day timeframe. Will you please pray for an especially quick TA if this is God's timing?

Another prayer request: Maeve is currently in a care center for children with medical needs. Per China's custom: orphans have to be transported back to the orphanage near where they are abandoned. It would be quite traumatic for our 13 month old to leave her familiar surrounding to be transported to an orphanage she is unfamiliar with (just to be placed with us whom she does not know).  We had to wait until today (once our article 5 was issued) to request the orphanage allow her to remain in her current location. We would then travel to her current location and "escort" Maeve and a nanny to the province of her birth. This would mean extra flights/travel for us, but we feel it would be so worth it if we can spare her more trauma. Please pray for her orphanage director to have a softening of heart and favor for this situation.

We now anxiously await for "the call" that our TA has arrived. We want our girl home as soon as possible, yet are attempting to rest in knowing His ways are so much higher than ours.

We appreciate you fervently praying for each request during this adoption journey.