Finances Ok so I'm worried

Ok so yes I will just say it I have been a little no a lot worried about the finances of getting Josiah home. If all things go well we will get our first date to go see him sometime in late July or early August. That's only around 3 months. seems like a long time when we think about having to wait to see our boy, but seems like no time at all when you think about raising at least $20,000. we have to have that much before we go on our first trip.We can't get any grants until the homestudy is done and that wont be until the first of June. so we will only have a few weeks to try and get a grant. I know I am not supposed to worry about this God said he would take care of it and so far he has. Mike says to stop worrying about it and let the Lord do his thing. It is hard and something I know I need to work on is trusting the Lord. and it seems like I do great for a time then my worries start up again. Please just pray for us that the money will come and pray for me that I will just give it to the Lord and trust.

Dossier prep packet and waiting

We got our dossier packet on sat! we came home in between games(kids baseball softball) and there it was. I was so excited I had been waiting for this for a few weeks. But I couldn't look at it good because we had to get to the next game. So I didn't get to look thru it until that night. I was pretty pleased to see we didn't have much more to do. We do have to go get yet another set of fingerprints, and letters from employers, and bank statement for our mortgage. we have a couple glitches with both of those since we don't own the home we live in, and I do childcare so I have no employer to write me a letter. our agency is in the process in finding out what to do for both those things. We also have to go get a family picture taken at a studio a snapshot will not work. so that's another thing that will be a bit hard to do, get all of us in one place at one time. It is baseball/softball season all the kids but Amelia play and Mike is the umpire in chief for our league, so we are busy to say the least. But we will get it done just like everything else. I remember when we first got the list of things and paper work we needed for the homestudy and I was so overwhelmed, and now we are thru that part and I look back and it does not seem to have been so bad. Can't wait until I can look back with Josiah in my arms at all the stuff we had to go thru and think it was not so bad. :)

so that is what we are doing now the last few things to get our dossier together,waiting for our homestudy to be finished(social worker on vacation), waiting for our passports, waiting to get our finger prints and then waiting for the report. Our next step after the homestudy is done is to send in the I600-a form and wait for our fingerprint appointment for them so as you can see we still have a lot of waiting to do.