Eventful Week

This has been quiet an eventful week.  School has ended for the kids, we had a bout of the stomache flu, we sent in our request for our i800 extention, and we recieved and updated photo  and measurments of Haddie.  This was a huge suprise because it normally takes forever to get anything from our Ripa or orphanage!  She is so beautiful and looks so tiny.  She is 26 pounds and 3 ft 1 inch tall.
I just want to get her home and help her gain some weight with healthy foods.  This week we also found out that the court will be emailing us with a court date in the next two weeks, so we are waiting on pins and needles for that day.  We are also still waiting to find out were we are moving.

God is so good though... Even with the anticipation of our upcoming move and adding Haddie to our family I have been holding it together.  I got to a point where I just had to give it all over to The Lord because honestly it can make a person crazy.  Moving so much we have learned that our roots are in our family and our Lord, not in our home.   Home is our family....  And it will not be complete until Haddie gets home to take her spot in it.


In the Bible it states - John 16:12-15

“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you".

This verse gives me so much comfort to know that even with all the unknowns, God gives us His Spirit to guide us and show us His ways and truth.  It is the only way to live life in a world that is becoming more lost everyday.  

New Hope and friends!

When things are at a standstill in this adoption I tend to get a little low.  Recently I remembered a website my friend told me about or actually it is a group of families who have adopted from India online.  I joined the group and through that met a women who's daughter is in the same orphanage as ours.  She introduced me to a Facebook page of 8 other women who have a child in Hyderabad!

So I, with Andrew's advice, I broke my one rule of no Facebook accounts and signed up under a assumed name to join the group of wonderful women going through the process of adopting from India.  Come to find out that most of these women are adopting from the same orphanage!  God is so good!!!  This has been such a wonderful and encouraging find.

Also we just found out yesterday that our paper reached the court and that our agency will be contacting them to make sure they arrived and are being processed.  Hopefully we can get a court date soon!

Please pray for Haddie as God prepares her emotionally for us.  Pray that we can get into the courts soon.  And please pray for patience.