Paperwork to India!

Tomorrow the extensive paperwork we have been completing these past three years will finally be sent to India!  Sometimes the orphanage's filing system (a huge metal cabinet full of papers stuffed in no particular order) can lend itself to lost papers.  Please pray that our 10 pounds of paperwork (about 5 inches thick) would arrive in tact and would somehow stay on the top of every desk pile it may cross.  Pray that there would be no missing or extra required pieces that they request from us and that CARA will approve us to adopt Joshna very quickly.

We are grateful for the prayers and support during this time we wait for our daughter to come home!  We are so full of so many emotions that it is hard to put everything into words.  How can someone who does not know us or anything outside her small little world fathom the idea of joining a family?  Will she associate us with her family from our pictures and recognize us when we come to bring her home?  We are all so excited about this transition for our family that it is hard not to jump ahead of ourselves to think about that special day we come home with Joshna.  For now, I will just think about the paperwork...and the seven books and papers we have for our homework to prepare (which is due in two weeks--yikes!).  So if there are no updates in a while, you know why!  At least this will help pass the time.  :)

Introducing Joshna Grace Jones!

Now that we have signed the papers to adopt Joshna, we started a new blog with a different title using Joshna's name instead of Asha.  Now we can keep you updated on specific progress reports and prayer requests.  Today's prayer request is that we, in the midst of a very busy time with work projects and the PCA General Assembly, would be able to quickly finish notarizing paperwork, have it appostilled, and send it to Journeys of the Heart to be reviewed and sent to India.  From there, we need to seek approval from CARA (the Indian agency that approves all adoptions from there).  Please pray that they would approve us by September.  This is when the Indian courts reopen after monsoon season.  We greatly appreciate your prayers to bring Joshna home as soon as possible.  We will keep you updated as things happen!