Happy 2018! We are so excited about what this year will bring for our family. We see Liam's heart being prepared for sissy. On our visit to see Steven's sister and her two children, Liam was very interested in Anna his 4 month old cousin. Liam wanted to learn how to be loving and gentle and he wanted to sooth her and calm her when she was upset. Liam has a very caring demeanor for other children especially those younger than him. Liam loves diversity and already sees the beauty in it. He loves to interact with those that look different to him and you can see his mind working and I know God is doing a beautiful work on his tiny heart.
An update on our home study..We just completed our second home study where a home evaluation was conducted and we passed (yay!) our FINAL home study is January 12th and we are so excited! What exactly does this mean for us? After January 12th we will hopefully be approved through our agency so that we can submit our 2nd installment of money and final documents involved in the home study process. Our case worker will then write an over all review to include with all our documentation and our home study will be sent to CARA for approval from the Indian Government so that we can move on to phase 2...our dossier which is a HUGE portfolio of every document about myself. Steven and Liam that you can imagine. The timeline of acceptance from CARA is between 4-6 weeks. After we are approved from the Indian government we could potentially be MATCHED! We need your prayers..
Please be in prayer for peace and mutual, complete confidence of our daughter when we see her. Please also pray for our daughter if she is born already that she will be with a Godly caregiver and she will be receiving everything she needs (food, water, warmth, attention, love etc). Pray that God will prepare our hearts for what is ahead as it will be taxing spiritually and emotionally. Please pray God will multiply our finances and efforts so that finances do not stand in the way of getting our daughter to us as quickly as possible.
If you feel the Lord is tugging on your heart to consider adoption, foster care or sponsorship I encourage you to visit LifeLine Children's services website to get more information. Lifeline is a Christian agency and we have felt such support throughout our whole process.
http://lifelinechild.org/
