Anna will be our daughter!!!

In case you didn't see the email from Jenny, I'll start off with the big news: We will be adopting Anna!!!

This past week the adoption committee met and agreed that matching us with Anna makes sense. Their decision is the final permission we need to adopt her. Unfortunately, there is still one thing holding up our bringing her home: Jenny's visa.

We applied for new visas back in May. Mine was ready in an unheard-of-quick 4 weeks. Jenny's, however, is still somewhere in the Foreign Police system. While not having the visa does nothing to our ability to adopt Anna, until we have it in hand we cannot get the papers we need to bring her home. Please pray that the visa will come soon. At this point, we have been visiting every day (one or both of us) and are ready to have her full-time.

One concern that we have is that recently we have seen some of the workers there being harsh in how the discipline the children. Most of the caregivers there are great, but we don't want Anna exposed to that. She is just starting to walk, so we are afraid that she may start getting into more trouble and thus be in danger of discipline methods that we don't plan to use.