Dasha

We have been visiting with Dasha since Friday and she is just so precious! Her hair has grown a lot and she has gained weight. She looks much healthier overall. I cannot post pictures because we are using the internet cafe and there is no way to upload the pics here. :( Our apartment this time does not have internet and we cannot afford to get it this time. She fell asleep when I was holding her this afternoon. She is such a sweet little soul! We just love her so much!

We found out after our SDA appointment on Wednesday that we were given the incorrect price for our second adoption. We were told that we would be given a discount to help out, but apparently there was some MAJOR miscommunication. We are currently $2,000 short of the amount needed to complete our adoption of Dasha. Not only that, but with their holidays over here we cannot even get a court date until after Jan. 12th. We do not have our court date confirmed yet, but we do know it will be after the 12th. So that means we also have to buy another set of round trip tickets. Rick has to go back to work and it is just as expensive for me to stay here that long as to return home. And I cannot leave John Paul that long anyway! Even with us paying the additional $2,000 our facilitator is working for free just to help us get Dasha home! You cannot imagine how devastated we have been over here since Wednesday! On one hand I am so thrilled to see Dasha again and on the other hand I am terrified that we are not going to be able to come up with the additional funds to come back for her. We wish that we would have known we were given incorrect information before we came out here because we could have waited a few months to come up with the additional funds. We were just going on what we were told back in June. We had no idea that there was a problem at all until right after we received our referral.

We have no idea what we are going to do about this. We had budgeted for the price we were given, not this new price. Right now this seems impossible to come up with this amount of money, but I know that God can work it out.

I am honestly at a loss for words about it. I just wish that we had known ahead of time so that we could have waited instead of getting here unprepared and having to stress about how we are going to come up with all of this extra money in a matter of a few weeks.

The hardest thing is that we find ourselves asking God for a miracle to not let us lose another two year old little girl that we love beyond what words can express. It gives me a lump in my throat just thinking about it. I believe that everything will work out and that God will provide for us to be able to bring Dasha home, I just don't know how right now.

Please just pray for this situation and if anyone feels led to donate, I have put a paypal buton at the top right corner of this blog. We will appreciate all the prayers and any donations that may given more than we can express!!