Long Time, No Write

Here's a picture of last night's Dover AFB Annual Awards Banquet. We had a great time! The food was good. The speaker was interesting. The company was exceptional! This is me, Kristi, Melissa and Shannon.

It's been a long couple of weeks. I had a bad bout of bronchitis and basically spent a week lying around the house, hacking up my lungs and feeling nasty. I am finally coming back to myself, thankfully. Hopefully this will be my last run-in with bronchitis this season, as I'm really getting irritated that it won't leave me alone.

We have been offered the opportunity to partner with another adoption agency to try to get our kids home sooner. (That agency has already received their accreditation and could register our dossier right away.) We are in the process of doing a whole new set of paperwork for them, and hopefully can get things moving again soon! The trickiest thing is finding an LPC that can do the psychological evaluation the new agency requires.

Karl will be flying off again this weekend. It's a mixed blessing, as we hate to see him go, but it is something he needs to do regularly for his career. It is, after all, his primary job. It also provides significant benefits to our bank account, which is especially helpful as we prepare for two trips to Russia this spring!

Please pray for JT Scott. He's the 16-year-old son of my friend, Shauna, whom I have asked you to pray for in the past. He has stage four Ewings sarcoma and is having his leg amputated below the knee tomorrow.

Also, please continue to keep my Aunt Pat and Uncle Harry in your prayers. He has done amazingly well considering the extent of his injuries after a farm accident that took one arm, mangled the other and left him paralyzed from the waist down. Unfortunately, after an accident like that, life is not the same. He has been transferred to a long-term care facility (nursing home) for three months before he can move into the assisted living facility that he and Aunt Pat will live in temporarily until they are able to build the house they want on the family farm. I truly believe that they will make that dream come true, in spite of the obstacles they have faced, but it is a process that is painful and difficult for them. Please pray that God will provide them daily with the strength, patience, comfort and peace that they need to get through the next few months.