Next Step!

Yesterday I was sitting in our living room when my cell phone rang. I answered it and it was our agency calling us to give us "good news" she said! I thought she was calling to give us an update on Maya, but she was calling to tell us we had a court date!!!!! A court date!!! I couldn't believe it! The agency in Africa was suppossed to be closed until March?! I'm not sure what happened but they opened early and gave us a court date. Our date right now is May 5! Now, we are considering this a tentative date because everything I have heard and read lets me know that almost no one gets to actually pass court on the first date given. Court dates get moved, court closes, no electricity on that day, paper work is missing, birth families need to be located, a myriad of reasons why people don't actually have court the first day assigned or why they don't pass court the first time. We are trying to be flexible and patient. We also are just happy to be in the system at this point!

For those of you who haven't heard how this works. We give power of attorney to people over in Africa and they handle court for us. If/when we pass court we are legally her parents. We must then travel about three weeks after we pass court to go meet her and bring her home! Thank you so much for your prayers for us and for our little girl and for this process. Please continue to pray for all of us.

As you are praying today and tonight, and if you wake up in the middle of the night between midnight and three, please, please pray for a wonderful family that has their court date tonight! Their little girl is in the same baby home as Maya and they are going through the same agency. Hopefully, tomorrow they will legally be the parents of a beautiful little girl all the way over in Africa!!