The night before court....

Well, it's hard to believe it is finally here.   Tomorrow morning is our court date after waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and jumping on a airplane to get here to wait some more.   Now that it is upon us we are doing our best to rest on the fact that The Lord has everything under control.

I met with our power of attorney late this evening (late because he functions on Ghana time for sure and estimates of when he will arrive should be taken with a wide grain of salt - but we are appreciative of all his work).   I got a few more questions answered but I think he thinks I ask too many questions....

Joy had a good morning but after a longer than usual afternoon nap she woke up pretty upset and wanted us to "buy a car" to "go see her mommy."  Becky calmly and repeatedly assured her that we wouldn't be able to do that.   Some food, FaceTime with big-sister-to-be Emily, and some music/singing with Daddy seemed to help turn things around and she went down peacefully for bed and is now sound asleep.

Becky and I are pretty much packed and ready because we will be up early in the morning to get ready for court (I brought a suit and she'll be wearing a dress), grab some breakfast, check out of the hotel and then off we go.   We are supposed to meet up at the courthouse at 8 am so if any of you have insomnia and are up at 3am central standard time that would be a great time to be praying.

A few specific prayer requests:
1. Please - everyone show up who is supposed to and have the necessary documents (we've got ours)
2. Good night rest for us all and a happy Joy in the morning rather than the sad Joy we were trying to console this afternoon.
3. Judge to see us early rather than having to wait around until afternoon as we think this would be easier for Joy (and us too of course)
4. FULL ADOPTION RULING (that's the big one in case you were wondering)
5. A good parting with our dear, sweet little girl - we know we will miss her so much!

Thanks for taking the time to read this and more importantly to pray.   We are praying that tomorrow's update will be full of great reports and many praises (we will be praising The Lord no matter what happens but human nature is that we'd like to be able to choose a few specific things to thank Him for).

We've got the joy, joy, joy, joy, down in our hearts....(we have been singing that one with her a lot this week).

Love,
-Jay, Becky, and Joy