Call To Prayer!

We have had a bump in the road to Abigail. Our social worker called me earlier this week stating what I had heard as a rumor on the internet as being fact. China is thinking about creating a rule that a person must be 3 to 5 years in remission in order to adopt from their country. Needless to say, I was very upset. Our social worker, Lisa, had a plan for us. She asked us to get a letter from my oncologist with a laundry list of statements in it and they would translate it, send it to China, and get preapproval for us to adopt. She didn't seem to think it would be a problem but we have an invisible "timeline" that we need to beat because noone seems to know when this rule will come into effect. She also said that once we are officially in the process with Harrah's (the agency that will be handling the China part of our adoption), we will be grandfathered in should China make the rule after we are in with Harrah's. PLEASE PRAY! I am now experiencing a bit of hesitancy on the part of my oncologist and cannot get his office staff to give me a truthful answer as to when the letter will be ready. Please pray that my oncologist will get this letter done ASAP so that we can get it to China. Also, please pray that China will NOT deny us our adoption! We are praying hard ourselves and we know that with your help, God will hear our petition and cause the hearts of China's officials to be softened toward us and give us the daughter that we are in love with already. Thank you for reading and for keeping us in your prayers. God bless.

Home Study Is FINISHED!!

Hello friends!! I know it's been a while since I updated the blog. Life seems to go too fast! We had our third and final home study visit with our social worker on Friday, the 28th and all seems to be going well. She is waiting for the last couple of documents from us so she can write up our home study report and get that behind us and we are now starting on our "China paperwork"...also called our "dossier". It seems like a mountain of paperwork and I am really feeling the pressure right now to get it done. I know that it will all be worth it in the end and I keep reminding myself of the end result of our labors. However, it still doesn't really seem "real" yet. Sometimes I think about travelling to China and the day that we will finally meet Abigail face-to-face and it just seems like a dream. I have a hard time realizing that it is a dream that will eventually come true for us. The road is long but God is faithful and I know it will happen in His timing, not ours. I will try to post more when I get another chance. Please keep us in your prayers as we begin tackling this mountain of paperwork!! Thank you!