SLOW SAILING AND PRAYER NEEDED

Everything is moving along, but very slowly. Our power of attorney is in Taiwan ready to be translated and our second addendum is ready to be reviewed by the children's home for approval. Nothing is happening this week because Taiwan is having a week long celebration of the Chinese New Year. It is tradition for all businesses to close down for the week of Chinese New Year. Hopefully things will start picking up next week. After the director of the children's home reviews and approves our home study addendum, we can get it notarized and e-mail it to him for translation. After everything is translated, they will mail all of the translated copies to us. We combine the tranlated copies with the English versions and get them certified and authenticated. We then mail the Chinese version and the English version of all of the papers back to Taiwan. They can then register for a court date for us to begin the court process of adopting Isaac.

Please pray for our financial situation. It seems that every time we turn around, something happens that is a large expense. It is preventing us from being able to save any money for the adoption, of which we still need at least another $4000. I have been having problems with my eyes, so I had to go to the eye doctor yesterday. I needed new glasses and because my eyes are so bad, I had to get specialty glasses which cost me $250. That was with vision insurance. It would have been twice that without insurance. I am also probably going to have to go to a specialist for my eyes. I have had double vision since I was 15 years old due to a car accident that damaged my right eye. I may need an outpatient procedure done to straighten my eye. I had this procedure done about 18 years ago, but it has worn off. It is an injection that holds my eye in place. My right eye is starting to turn toward my nose. The muscle that pulls my eye to the right was damaged and doesn't work, so without this injection to hold my eye in place, my eye pulls to the left into my nose. It is starting to make it very difficult for me to see because my eyes are crossing and blurring my vision. I have no idea how much that procedure will be. We are going to try to hold off on that until after we get Isaac home.

Please pray for us as these stressers of work and finances and health have really been getting us down. We know that God is in control and He is going to take care of us. Our human nature tends to forget that sometimes though, so we need prayers for strength. Please pray that God will start opening doors to provide us with the finances needs to bring Isaac home and to also take care of our medical needs.