And These Are the Days of Our Lives

Our little diva is now six and half weeks old. She continues to keep us on our toes as we continue to learn all of her quirks and cries. Our friend Shelly recently gave Jamie a book that apparently is all the rage. Its called The Baby Sleep Solution by Suzy Giordano. The author claims that this method has never failed, not even once. Well, consider me a skeptic. Anytime you use the words "never" or "always" I get a bit queasy. The goal of the book is to get your child to sleep 12 hours at night by 12 weeks. Well, last night was somewhat of a breakthrough, I guess, as Norah slept for 6 hours straight!!!! The only problem was we put her down too early so daddy had to get up at 2am to feed her. I think if we can successfully keep her up until 10pm tonight she'll sleep right into mommies shift :-)

Also, as many of you know, we continue to face a long and expensive legal battle in obtaining parental rights for Norah. According to our attorney the law is on our side and as long as the judge rules according to the law we shouldn't have anything to worry about. Unfortunately, there is the possibility these days we could get a judge that does not want to follow the letter of the law. (It is sad when you can say that about our "justice" system). We are supremely confident that God has been apart of and blessed the adoption process to this point. We are therefore confident that he will see us through this legal battle as it is totally out of our control right now.

Due to the circumstances we have decided to set aside a 24hr period for prayer and fasting. We decided to start on the evening of Wednesday, March 11 at 6pm and finishing at 6pm the following evening. Taking a day for this is something we rarely do, but is something Jesus and the first century church did frequently. So we are inviting anyone who feels inclined to join us. If you do, please let us know so we can be praying for you and your family at the same time. We wanted to do it within the next two weeks though since we expect the first ruling from the judge will be sometime in the middle of March. Some of the specific things you can join us in praying for are:

• that God would find favor with Norah and place her in the situation that is best for her


• that the birth father, who is instigating all this legal action, would have Norah's best interests at heart and not his own


• that the birth father would come into a relationship with Jesus Christ.


• that God would place a judge over this case that will rule in the Norah's best interests


• that if God sees fit to take Norah from us our hearts can be comforted and healed quickly

No matter what happens, we are truly grateful to all of you who have been praying for us and encouraging us over the past few weeks. We are overwhelmed at times by your love and support and we give praise to God for all of you.