Prayers Needed!!

So Jonah and I leave tomorrow!!!!!!  Of course, this week, my Sjogren's Syndrome (the auto-immune disease that I have) has decided to do some serious rearing of its ugly head.  I've never had so much joint pain and swelling with it.  I am feeling miserable!!  Went to the rheumatologist and he's thinking it's all stress related and hopefully some prednisone will knock it into submission for now.  I'm not usually a meds kind of girl, but at this point, less than 24 hours from our flight- I'll take anything!!!!!  So I'm waiting for that to kick in and also need to start packing.  Here's our prayer request list:)-
1. For my health right now- can't really explain how badly I need some healing!!!
2. For Jonah and Temesgen to be healthy through the trip
3. For Temesgen to be comfortable with us from the start and really start the bonding process before we even get home.
4. For our travels to go smoothly and for Jonah to do well on the plane.  We're starting our trip with the Denver to DC flight and then an overnight in DC and then a direct flight to Addis.  I did this flight when we brought the boys home and it's LONG and Jonah doesn't usually sleep well in the car or on planes.  And he has A LOT of energy.
5. For Shane and the boys back home to do well in our absence.  I know Shane's bummed to be missing this- but we are thankful he'll be able to take time off once we're home and we can spend at least a week getting to know each other as a family of 7!
6. For our friends and family who are stepping up to help us AGAIN so Shane can still work while we're gone.

So that's it right now!  I'll be updating facebook while we're gone, but won't be able to blog or email.  Can't believe it's finally here and it's finally his turn- only 3 more nights to sleep in the orphanage my sweet boy- we're coming!!!!