Please pray for us this week!!!

We have so much going on this week......it just seems to have piled on top of us.

I am hoping and praying that my "wishful thinking timeline" (posted 7/9) comes true this week for our OUT. Today marks 10 months and 2 weeks (318 days) since entering PGN for the very first time! 318 days that I have missed with my daughter and 318 days she has missed with us. It hurts me to the very core to know that she is so close to being home yet so very far away from being home. To know that there is still no real promise as to when she'll be home......I just keep praying. Praying that God, in His infinite wisdom, feels that now is the right time for PGN to release her! It rocks us to our core to see people getting out and bringing their children home that started after us.......we do not hold any hard feelings to anyone, it's just hard to see. I just hope and pray that it's finally our time.

I am also having my back surgery Tuesday at 1:30central. I need relief from this constant pain so badly. It has definitely gotten worse over the past 2 or 3 days. So bad that hurts just to get up to go to the bathroom. Sleeping.......ha! What's that? I have had ONE good night's sleep in the past couple weeks. Please just pray that when Dr. Pickett sees my injury that it's easily repaired and I can recouperate as easily as he thinks. I just want tomorrow to get here, so the pain will go.

Pray for Alan's Momma. She starts radiation Thursday and everyone is worried about her. We don't know how she will respond or how it will affect her. I hadn't really mentioned it but Alan's Daddy had orthoscopic knee surgery last Monday in the midst of all this. He's doing ok, but still quite sore. My SIL's Kim & Cynthia, nieces Melise and Jen have been in South Alabama taking turns helping out. Alan's brother Karl and his wife Deborah live near them, so they've been helping out as well. It's been a strange couple weeks.....

I am also going to try to go back to work on Friday. Probably only a 1/2 day but I've been gone from work since March on FMLA. I thought I was going to foster Sydney but once I got down there, nothing worked out like it was supposed to. The system was shutting down. I am glad that I didn't stay because it would've likely meant a 5-6 month stay........I am glad that God it through my head that I needed to be home.....here in Alabama.

Thanks in advance for all your prayers and positive thoughts......we know that's how we've made it this far.