Can you believe that May is nearly over?! Time is absolutely flying by. My mom always tells me that time flies by even faster as we get older; its not that I don't believe her... its just that I can't imagine time passing more rapidly than it has been recently!
Things here in Mississippi are good. Girls are good, Aunt Jen Cusick moved down here this week (she took a job out on base), and things just continue to move along. I resigned my nursing job to focus on our precious family.
We received our notice to be fingerprinted for USCIS (which is the petition to bring home an orphan into the US )- we have to go to Jackson next week to be fingerprinted (again;) That means the petition is in the works and that is good news (the petition has to be officially approved before our 2nd trip and Court date in Moscow).
We have taken out a loan to help cover the immediate costs and large sums of cash we will have to travel with to Russia. We are thankful that the Lord opened up a SUPER low interest loan option for us. We researched personal loans, adoption loans, and hundreds of grants... but we really don't qualify for any of them. SOO, we will be working our tails off in the mean time to pay for this process. It's not our money anyways... the Lord has provided abundantly for us and we are just giving a (bunch) of it back in order to bring our baby home from Russia.... and friends, is there ANYTHING else more worthy of spending our hard-earned money on?! Yes, this process is ridiculously expensive and yes we feel like Russia has made the process both difficult and crazy-expensive. But we are supposed to rend unto Ceasar what is Cesar's.... and is there is anything better than to give to ransom a soul from darkness?
This baby is born. This baby is waiting for us. And we are ready.
SO, Sweet Jesus... we plead YOUR FATHER'S heart to hear our prayers and to send us our baby soon. We are ready. His room is ready. We pray for him all day and night long.
So, friends, pray with us. Pray the Lord will (continue) to pave the way for us to bring our son home. And... pray for patience and peace in the meantime;) We are learning ALOT in this process.
And in closing... I will share a story from sweet Emma. She was playing in the play area at Chikfila and there was an older girl playing with her. Girl to Emma: "Hi, whats your name?". Em: "I be Emma". Girl: "Oh... well, see that boy out there? Thats my brother and he is CRAZY. Do you have a brother too?" Em: "YES!!!! He be Nik-o-why. He not crazy. He gonna LOVE the Emma".
He isn't gonna love the Emma.... he already loves the Emma-- because we pray AND WE BELIEVE that in his little heart, he knows that he is LOVED AND CHERISHED AND PRAYED FOR by his family.
Lord, we wait... on You (and on Russia;) Send us that referral... send us his picture and lets get this traveling going so we can bring this precious soul home!
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