Where we stand - please pray

I would send this out in an email, but my Outlook never really synched properly when I shifted to the "new-to-me" laptop. Yet another change in my life that happend the week we left (= New Laptop and going from XP to Vista. sigh.

So if you all could pray for us the next several days, we'd really appreciate it. We are looking into where to have the baby and if we need to move across town. Both could happen rather quickly.

On Sunday we'll find out (hopefully!) if we are doing a traditional delivery or a C-section. If we can go for a traditional delivery, we need to decide if we are going to do it across town, or in Dubai or elsewhere. We do have a place to stay there if need be. If it is a C-section we can easily plan our visas around that so we can stay in our home and deliver in the same hospital where we had Layla.

On Sunday Tom is also going to look at some places across town where we may potentially move. The border is getting more and more strict - now they are not letting ladies drive alone across the border. This is very odd.

The best chance for staying in our house is to get a residence visa from the UAE. You are apparently not hassled if you have this visa. You still have to deal with the traffic to cross the border however.

Getting the residence visa would be at least about 6-8 months. We have good leads and expected this to come eventually. But nothing like that moves quickly here and the border is becoming too arduous to wait it out.

So we are trying to pray and decide if we need to move NOW across town where we can live without any issues on our current visitor visas so we are not dealing with the hassles of the border. If Tom's main group of friends lived on OUR side of town, this would not be an issue. But because they are across the border, he has to negotiate the border each time he visits them.

I hope this makes sense (=
So please pray for clear guidance about whether we should move across town (i.e. in the next two weeks)
And for guidance about where to have the baby.

Thanks so much - again, Sunday is the day we'll get a little more information. Whether it is enough to make any decisions remains to be seen.