Nemo is no longer my favorite fish!!

If plans had gone as expected, we would at this very moment be about 95% thru the home study interviews. But because of a very large winter storm, named Nemo, that blasted the Northeast on Friday, the social worker was not able to travel to Quebec to do the interviews.  We were very disappointed and were looking forward to this step being behind us, but for some reason, it will have to be another weekend.

So, thank you for your prayers.  We will let you know when we have another date.  This time, please pray that all the cute little fish remain in the ocean and don't make their way up the east coast. :)

5 days and counting....

As most people are getting excited about the Super Bowl on this Super Bowl Sunday, we are thinking about something else.  In 5 days, we'll be starting the intense Home study interviews with  a social worker coming from Virginia.  We have prepared and are still preparing for her arrival, the questions she will ask and the paperwork that we have to give to her.  If you think of it, please pray for our family this next weekend.  Although we know that God has been leading in this, it's easy to get stressed and anxious about everything being just perfect.  But as you know as well as we do, we are not perfect and our family is not perfect. And we want to convey to her that though we are not perfect, we want to open our home to a child that has been left behind and show him/her our love and the love of a perfect God who created him/her for a purpose.

As I told you in the last post, by January 31st, we had to know the country we were adopting from.  Though we don't seem to know why, all doors seemed to close for our family to adopt from Haiti.  Our hearts will always be close to Haiti and I can see us being involved in Haiti for many years to come, especially the orphanage that we wanted to adopt from.  But God seems to be leading in another direction, across the Atlantic Ocean, to a very poor country in Africa called Burkina Faso.

Burkina Faso is in West Africa, bordering Mali(where we lived for almost 4 years) and also bordering Ivory Coast(where Robert grew up).  The UN has rated Burkina as the worlds 3rd poorest country.  It is also the leading cotton producer in Sub-Saharan Africa.  I will give more details and share more facts about Burkina in the posts to come.

Thank you again for your prayers and encouragement as things have progressed.