Green Family: Merry Christmas!!

Christmas Eve last year was my very first adoption blog post! You can see it HERE.

Since last Christmas we finished all the paperwork, did our 2 homestudies, raised funds needed, and best of all we were matched with our daughter!!!

Mary-Lynn was born in May 2014

We have been matched with our sweet Mary-Lynn for 5 1/2 months now. We still have no timeline as to when she will be home. We did sign a power of attorney this week that allows the orphanage director and advocate/lawyer to go to court in our place. As soon as we get our No Objection Certificate (NOC), our case can go to court.

I have wondered all day if her orphanage does any thing special for Christmas or not. I know they do not celebrate the real reason for Christmas, but I wonder if they at least get something special to eat or celebrate in some sort of way. It breaks my heart! I wish she was home with her family already. Santa will be leaving her a few things at home tonight that we can use when we travel to get her.

Apparently she has been on Matthew and Eli's minds today too. When I was bathing Matthew before our Christmas Eve service tonight he said, "I wish baby sister was home with us." Then we were eating supper after church and Britt's phone rang, Eli said, "Man, I was hoping that was the orphanage calling." Break my heart!! We are all missing her right now.

Part of Eli's Christmas List this year

Please pray we get our No Objection Certificate soon, and that our orphanage director and lawyer go in to court fighting to get our baby girl home to us ASAP!

Pray for my Nanny and family also. My Granddaddy will be celebrating his first Christmas in Heaven. They were married for 68 years! My Nanny is where we got Mary-Lynn's middle name from. You can read about that HERE.

I just have to share these sweet pictures of my Nanny and Granddaddy through the years...