Prayers Coveted

Each year we go through the process of updating our home study as we wait for an adoption referral. We redo our FBI, ink, fingerprints for our background checks (don't ask me why they have to be redone). We gather work information and letters. We make doctor's appointments and have our home inspected. We endure family interviews. We disclose all of our financial and medical info. And those things are just the icing on the cake.

It's getting close to time again. This will be our fourth time through the process. Fun stuff y'all!

We've already sent in our fingerprints to the FBI. They should have them four weeks on Monday. We're waiting and praying that they are legible so they don't have to be redone. "Praying a lot" would be the operative phrase.

Up until this year, the doctor's appointments were no biggie. Then in December, our family doc, who've I have seen since I was around ten, sold his private practice and moved to New Mexico. Prompt panic attack. The man knew (knows) us. He knows my parents and grandparents and aunts and siblings. He knows our personalities. He knows I'm slightly OCD, but I'm fully sane (that's a joke . . . the OCD part not the sane part . . . I would never joke about my sanity). So on Monday we're meeting a new doctor and to be honest, I'm a bit nervous. I've given it to God and tried to leave it there, but like I said, OCD.

I'm, we're, asking for your prayers once again. Please pray for our FBI fingerprints to be fully legible. Please, please, please pray for a great visit with our new doctor. And while you're praying, will you also pray, for more referrals to begin to come in from Bulgaria? We've seen some movement which is awesome, and we're believing God for more. May will mark 32 months of waiting, and while I don't love the wait, I believe that God has used the wait to prepare us for our daughter.

As always, thank you for your prayers. Thank you for walking this journey with us. It means more than you'll ever know!