Baby Steps

We wish we had breaking news....but we continue to just keep plugging along. We were so excited to recieve our Notarized Home Studies in the mail yesterday, but as we reviewed them, we found a couple of errors. So - now we need those to be fixed and must wait again. Hopefully, they will be corrected this week and by the end of the week we can send in everything needed to the United States Center for Immigration Services (USCIS). We are learning to take it all with a grain of salt, because when we think something is going to happen, it doesn't.....but that doesn't mean we are learning this lesson very quickly or patiently. :-)

As we move along in the process, we find it very easy to start worrying about the time table of all this......at this point it looks like we will still need to make two trips to Ethiopia and we start to "what if" those trips.....what if we are gone over one of the kids birthdays? what if the timing is difficult with our jobs? what if we don't have the funds for the tickets? what if Vicki has a panic attack on the plane? (did you know Vicki has a HUGE fear of flying?) what if we don't have our immunizations done when we get "the call"? And we can get so caught in this pattern of wondering about all these possibilities....but, we have to remember how we came to this decision in the first place.....God has called us to do this and He has called us to TRUST HIM. And, on a daily basis we will continue to do just that.

Please continue to keep the "Jansen Expansion" in your prayers.....for freedom from worries, for our child waiting to come home and for our family to be prepared for all the changes ahead. Please pray especially for a particular paper we need for our Dossier that has been difficult to get so far...we'd love for this piece of paper to be completed this week!

Thanks for your continued support in so many ways - we remain grateful!