Court on Monday

It looks like our lawyers will be in court for us on Monday to fight for us to go home together as a family. Home Affairs is really digging in on this and not wanting to help us out at all with doing their job. Please keep praying for us and the other family who is here and in the same situation as us.

We have loved being here in Cape Town. We are not fighting for our rights because we want to leave here so badly. We have got connected with a church here and met some really wonderful people. Scott has been able to meet with several pastors and has been loving going to different churches and experiencing different youth ministries and sharing ideas. The kids are enjoying time at the beach to collect seashells and all the other new experiences that they've had. Eva and I have "enjoyed" being able to do a lot of running and exercising together. Eva even makes me run the flights of stairs in our building every night. Our time here has been good for our family. We are forced to spend much more time together as a family and this has only been good for us. We have gotten to know Busi better this way than if we had made it home a lot sooner.

At the same time there are some things that we would like to get back to. For me it's this feeling of being unsettled. I love going on holiday as much as anyone else, but it's always wonderful to be back home again. I miss my washer and dryer, I miss my kitchen with my utensils and spices. I miss my friends. The longer this goes on the harder it has become on the kids with missing their friends and their toys and everything else. The idea of not going home as a family makes me sad. I know we have friends and family who will be there for Scott and the kids and help them out in anyway possible and they will survive without me (even if it means that they don't eat quite as healthy as when mom's around), but it's not quite the same as being united as a family.

The one thing that really keeps me going through all of this is that God's hand is on it. The timing with this whole adoption has not been what we would have chosen, but yet God has not been surprised by any of this. He is still in control of the timing and everything that is going on with this adoption. We may never understand why we are going through and have gone through what we have, but we can be confident that God is in charge and knows what's going on.

Please continue to pray for our situation. We can't wait to introduce you all to the newest member or our family and hopefully for some of you we'll be able to introduce you in 1 week! God is a God of miracles!