Home Before Christmas

Thank you for praying for Melodee’s Italian citizenship process.

We feel very loved and prayed for at this moment. ❤️

The good news is that Melodee does not have to go to Minnesota. (She hasn’t lived there since she was a baby)!

But she does have to go to Michigan and Pennsylvania to get background checks (plus apostilles). And it has to happen fast, before her FBI background check and birth certificate apostilles expire in January.

The other good and bad news is that she leaves tomorrow.

I’m excited that she will be with her family over Thanksgiving, but we are praying that she can get everything done in time to return home for Christmas! Eva in particular is struggling with the idea of missing her mommy.

We realize that we are asking for a small miracle, considering the holiday season upon us. That’s where you enter in!

There are so many things I could add to the prayer request list, but I am sure you can imagine the domino effect of being gone from us for a whole month (if she gets the paperwork done in time.)

What more can I say? Thank you for caring! And especially, thank you for praying! God is good.

PS.

Special thanks to Daniel Ransom and my neice Sara, who are also heading out for Thanksgiving with family tomorrow morning, so Melodee can get a ride with them to the airport!

And for my BFF Shawn Gurk who suggested that “Background Check” sounded much better than “Criminal Record”!