He Sets the Lonely in Families

For the three of you that have not already heard, we are a family of seven!   Yesterday, we were appointed legal guardians of our sweet girl.  We know many of you are waiting on pictures...we will post them soon, if we can get them to post, but we aren't sure if we have to wait for the written ruling, which we will receive next week.  Just to be safe, we are waiting until then.

So for those who like details, we headed back to Kampala for the third time yesterday.  Our court time was 12:00 but we have learned that that is really just a suggestion!  Our lawyer wasn't there right at twelve and another group beat us in to the judge.  So the wait began.  This time, it was about three hours or so.  Finally our lawyer got there. He went in to check on how things were going.  Evidently, that is where some confusion arose.  He told us later that he said that he was going into the court room and when we saw people start to leave to go in there.  None of us heard that.  We saw people start to leave and Claudia frantically began to text and call him.  He didn't respond.  Chris was asleep on one of the benches and we were watching the doorway waiting for Isaac (the lawyer), when he walks through the door asking why we didn't go in.  We had no idea what he was talking about!  He then informed us that he had had to jump up and kind of push in front of the lawyers for the next case before they stared to argue the case, otherwise we would have been waiting another three hours.  So, the judge just read the ruling to him...we weren't even in the courtroom!

The funny thing is, Claudia was questioning him and chastising him because we weren't there and he was chastising us for not being in there and Chris and I just kept asking for the ruling.  Finally, we just gave up trying to find out from Isaac and read it ourselves!  Not exactly the court experience we were expecting but all that matters is that the sweet girl is ours!

She also did great both Thursday and yesterday when we took her into Kampala and Thursday it was just us so I think we are making progress!

In other news, in my last blog I mentioned one of the children, Richard.  He has sickle cell and has not been doing well.  He was in the hospital in Jinja all last week and came home a couple of days ago.  Thursday, he was very lethargic and Friday, they made the decision to take him into Kampala.  He did not get a good report.  He is a very sick little boy.  Please friends, you have done so much for us praying for this adoption.  We are now asking you to bombard Heaven with prayers on behalf of little Richard.

Our next step is immigration.  We have to wait to get our written ruling and her passport, which we will probably not get until Friday so we are hoping o get an interview the following Monday.  Chris will be gone by then so I will be on my own...well except for the BEST adoption advocate ever, Claudia.  This is the stage I am most nervous about so please continue to keep us in your prayers.  Hope everyone has an amazing weekend and please remember Richard in your prayers.