One Month Ago...

One month ago, our paperwork was shipped off to Ethiopia! I have been thinking and praying for Aria so much more since then. It's all so much more real now. There are a multitude of things to pray over. Besides some very specific things I'm praying over Aria and her character, heart, protection, etc. I am also learning how we can be praying for the adoption journey itself. There have been several families who traveled to ET and discovered some technicalities that could have (or did) keep them from traveling back home when expected. There is one specific family in ET right now who thought their paperwork went through court successfully. But when they arrived in ET they discovered that the husband's name was typed wrong in the paperwork (not by AWAA but by someone in ET) and the ET courts now consider this family to have not been successful in court and they have to stay in ET a week or two longer to get it all straightened out. This family's baby girl is also very sick with pneumonia and had to go to a hospital in ET yesterday bc she was having trouble breathing. Please visit this family's blog by click on "Gibson Family" (scroll down and you'll see it on the right side of the screen). When you get to their blog/site, click on "mom's daily journals from ET" to read their story. Please be praying for this family.

As I was saying... the trip to ET has it's difficulties and I'm asking our friends and family to be praying even now that all our paperwork will be PERFECT, without any typos, etc. We're praying their will be no changes in our travel dates (so I won't have to leave Libby and Billy for any longer than necessary)! We're praying also for our little girls health. We are asking that she have no colds, sicknesses, etc so that our transition with her can be as easy as possible - for her and for us.

There are many other details to be prayed over, but I thought I'd share those for now. I can't believe it's already been a month since our DTE. I hope the next 6-8 will go by even faster!

Cindy