Current prayers

On Friday of last week, Future Dad, the dog and I took a trip. It was our final hoorah before our kids come. We split the cost of a condo with Aunt B and her new husband, Uncle A! We ventured down to the Alabama gulf and spent 3 days sitting on the beach. We swam in the ocean, Future Dad skim boarded some, we ate food, but mostly, we sat. We will not have this luxury for a VERY long time.

We found a cute condo on the bay side (read: cheaper) and walked 1 block to the beach each day and set up camp. It was wonderful. This is the only picture from the entire trip.

We were very happy and relaxed. Future Dad and I have not been to the beach together since 2008. It had been too long.

Adoption Update: We are waiting for "the ministry" in Poland to give us final approval, then we wait on a court date. Once they set a date, we will buy our plane tickets and go meet our children.

We mailed our kiddos a package 2 weeks ago. It contained a book, some stuffed animals with a voice box inside, and a photo of us with their animals. We tried to say "we love you" in Polish. We could have said "we love sushi" for all we know. Hopefully, they will understand our broken Polish.

The National Adoption Center in Poland has not approved our facilitator to give them to the kids yet. They are holding our gift until we are closer to travel. They don't want the kids to think we aren't coming.

 

Prayer requests:

The ministry will approve us this week.

The NAC will approve our gift to be given to the kids so they will know they are chosen and loved.
The judge will set a date soon.

God will be preparing the heart of the judge to be fair and compassionate (not sure if those are opposites, but I believe they can coexist).

God to be preparing the hearts of our children to meet us.

God to finish preparing our hearts to be parents.

Us to get our house ready in time.