Good news! Our travel coordinator called today and said that we received our travel approval! She also gave us a date. She said that we should be leaving with their March 24th travel group! Our long awaited journey to pickup our beautiful daughter, Anabelle, is almost here! With that being said, we ask that you please pray for several things.
First of all, please pray for my peace during the flights and for our safety there and back. One of my biggest fears over the past few years has been flying. Yes, my husband flys helicopters in the US Air force and I don't like to fly! Its funny too that the one place where I feel called to adopt, is almost the farthest place we could go... All I can say is I am trusting God with this. He gave us this dream and I believe He will complete it and He will carry me through this.
Another thing to pray for is Anabelle's peace. From what I understand, someone is going to meet us somewhere, hand her over, say a quick good-bye and they are out of there! She is not going to understand what is going on. Who are these people and where am I? Some children are very distraught at first. Its going to be interesting to say the least. Pray that we will be able to comfort her.
One last prayer request is to pray for Caedmon's comfort as well. He knows we are going to go get his sister, but I don't think he realizes that we will be gone for 2 weeks. The grandparents are going to take care of him. Joseph's mom and dad one week and mine the next. I know he will have a blast with them and will probably be a little spoiled when we get back! ;)
We are going to do our best to blog our trip and post pictures while we are there to keep everyone updated! We can't wait to hold our precious little girl and bring her home! Thank you for your prayers! Love to you all! ~April
You got it! I had no idea that there is no "meet and greet/get to know you time". It will be hard for her but I'm sure she will feel your good nature and love for her. She will understand sooner than later that you are good people there to care for her.
ReplyDeleteHi Amy, Can you imagine? Living in an orphanage all your life. That is what's normal to her. Blank walls, a few toys to share, children everywhere, not enough nannies to give you the attention you need. Everthing is going to be different. We look different, we smell different, our food is different, talk different, we love her and she might not even know what love is. Then there is the carseat, I hear that newly adopted children hate carseats. Love you, Joseph
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