A little Update

There hasn't really been that much going on and to tell you the truth I don't really like that. I've been busy in other areas of adoption business.... just not mine.  The other day however, we got a little glimpse of hope that things might be moving some and I wanted to keep you posted on the progress, mainly because we covet your prayers like you would not believe!!!! I asked Josh the other day, "wonder how long we should wait before we call Immigration and see if they have our home study?"  You see it was finally approved by Alabama DHR last week and sent off to Immigration and I wanted to know if it made it and when we were going to get our appointment for our 2nd, yes I said 2nd set of finger prints! I"m telling you one thing..... if they don't have every bit of information on us after this I don't know who does. Well, Josh called me 30 min later and said, "I called them and we have an appointment." They finally have all of our paperwork (Alabama DHR approved and sent them our home study last week)!!!!! Praise Jesus. We have our final set of biometric fingerprints scheduled for later this month, 2/23, (but we plan to show up at the place and try to get them done sooner......yes, you can do that). When he spoke to the Immigration Officer (who he said was very kind and helpful by the way), she said they are trying to have families processed and approved through immigration in 6 weeks or less. That would put us being approved toward the end of March. From there, our social worker puts together our dossier, gets it to their attorney in Uganda, and they begin trying to get us a court date. Our social worker said it's been moving very quickly and she has seen families travel within a month and a half of immigration approval. We are trying not to get our hopes up too much, but Claire (our awesome social worker) thinks having Steven home by late spring is a very realistic possibility. Again, we know this is international adoption and there are so MANY things that could happen to delay it. I also know that God's timing is oh so perfect and he will bring that sweet boy here on his time and not ours.  In the mean time we will keep praying that our little boy keeps growing (but not too much) and God takes care of him.   The girls can't wait and pray for his arrival everyday.