5 Days and Counting!

Hard to believe, a week from now we will be in Voronezh, seeing our little girl again. It all seems surreal and immensely overwhelming.

We are putting the final touches on making the house child-proof. Her car seat is in my car and I am sorting through what to take/what not to take for our trip. My suitcase will hold her clothes, my clothes, all the gifts for those helping us, toiletries, meds for us and meds for her---all under 40 pounds. hahahahaha

Thank you to each of you for keeping us in your thoughts and prayers. Don't stop! Especially for our June 6th court date. We need you to join us in praying for God to give us eloquence of speech and favor with the judge for Natalie's sake. Pray that we will hear the judge say 'dah' (yes). Secondly, pray that Natalie will bond with us quickly and that she will tolerate all the traveling back to Moscow and then home to the US.

We will attempt to keep you all up to date on our journey to bring Natalie home through this venue, providing technology cooperates while we are there. It's finally happening: Natalie will soon be ours and coming home!!

Karen

WE HAVE OUR COURT DATE!!

We will be leaving for Moscow on June 2nd and our court date is June 6th. More details to follow. . . . . . . .

God is Good!

While we wait....

Here we are. Still waiting for our court date. So, what are we doing to keep from going crazy? Steve is making sure that Natalie will have technology at her little fingertips: she has her own tv in the playroom off of the kitchen. I am washing her clothes in Dreft and every so often I just go in her room and open the drawer for a whiff. :) My friend, Randy, is helping me with a Life Book for Natalie. So, I've been gathering and passing along items of use to make her book special. I also read alot of blogs of other people who are on this journey. One family in particular is in the same region we will be heading back to for our daughter. They had a successful court date at the end of April and are now living out the required ten day wait in Russia till they get their little girl.

For the last couple of weeks there have been a few Russian holidays which closed the courts. Hopefully we will hear something soon. Waiting and walking in faith has gone to a whole new level for me during this process. I can't put it all into words right now, but I KNOW that God is in the waiting times of our lives, and that's what I'm holding on to.

Natalie turned 19 months on May 2nd. I pray that she is growing and happy. I know that God is holding her in His hand. Hopefully we will be with her or near her for her 20th month.

Love,
Karen