We are thrilled to let you know we were given official approval to book our trip today! Our case had been held up with the USCIS, and we were in the middle of drafting an email to our congressman, when we received notice to hold off on the email. Hours later we had news that we could go ahead and book our trip for July 7th! It seems so hard to believe that we leave in a week. Two weeks from today, we will be holding our sweet girl! Day after day my heart was hurting to not have her home. It seemed like it would be decades until we would be together. Wow....just two weeks!
Our family of three was having our weekly Friday movie night tonight when we saw a preview for a show on television a week from now. Ellie wanted to watch it, but I had to say, "Sorry, we will be in India!" I never thought I would hear myself say those words. Just think, our family of four will be home in a few weeks and can some day have movie night all together (for now Ellie is priding herself in being the big sister who can stay up to watch something that is too mature for Joshna to watch!).
It took me four hours on the phone today (while we had a pool full of people over...sorry second graders!), but I was finally able to finalize our flights for everyone. Joshna does not have a last name as an orphan, so her Indian passport will just say "Jyotsna." For her plane ticket they had to enter two names, so they entered "Miss" for her first name and "Jyotsna" for her last. We were laughing tonight about how the airlines are flying Miss Joshna! We always knew she is special, but for Continental Airlines to recognize it....:)
There will be many more updates to come, so for now I will try to go get some sleep. Thanks again for the many prayers. Please continue to pray for the USCIS approval to physically arrive in plenty of time and for all of us to be physically and emotionally prepared for the many changes, especially Joshna. Thank you!
Our family of three was having our weekly Friday movie night tonight when we saw a preview for a show on television a week from now. Ellie wanted to watch it, but I had to say, "Sorry, we will be in India!" I never thought I would hear myself say those words. Just think, our family of four will be home in a few weeks and can some day have movie night all together (for now Ellie is priding herself in being the big sister who can stay up to watch something that is too mature for Joshna to watch!).
It took me four hours on the phone today (while we had a pool full of people over...sorry second graders!), but I was finally able to finalize our flights for everyone. Joshna does not have a last name as an orphan, so her Indian passport will just say "Jyotsna." For her plane ticket they had to enter two names, so they entered "Miss" for her first name and "Jyotsna" for her last. We were laughing tonight about how the airlines are flying Miss Joshna! We always knew she is special, but for Continental Airlines to recognize it....:)
There will be many more updates to come, so for now I will try to go get some sleep. Thanks again for the many prayers. Please continue to pray for the USCIS approval to physically arrive in plenty of time and for all of us to be physically and emotionally prepared for the many changes, especially Joshna. Thank you!
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