Whoohoo we finally received our psych eval in the mail. What does this mean, you might ask? Well, it was the last piece of paper we needed to authenicate! We will go on thursday to get everything authenicated at the Secretary of State and then off to the library for copy making. After the library I will go to the Post office with my complete dossier (big huge smile here), to mail off to LBB.
Right now, I've been getting ready for the Mops/adoption garage sale on Sat. We have probably more then 30+ families that have donated. Lots and lots of stuff. I'm planning on posting pics later (if i can remember to take them before people show up to buy! I've been almost living at church (or at least that is how it feels), for the past week. I am planning on being at church tuesday, thursday, friday, and Saturday this week for the garage sale.
Our baby Angel
Monday, August 18, 2008
Friday, August 15, 2008
Referral Time!!!!!!
I can't believe it is finally here! We received part of Angel's referral today....his history! Oh my, the Joy that is overflowing right now, is really undescribeable. We are waiting on a few more parts of his referral, and then we can officially say yes we want to adopt this precious little guy.
He is a little over 5 months right now, and weights 9lbs 13oz. He is little guy! He has been having a lot of episodes of dehydration, and some vomiting and diarrhea; but I know he is in good hands and that he is being taken care of. It is soo hard to hear about him being sick though, as a mother I just want to be there to hold him and make sure he is ok. It made me almost cry when I read it. Nate was overly emotional reading his history as well. If you are a parent, I'm sure you would know what I mean when I say "It pains us to know about him being sick."
On another note, we finally received our final homestudy today! Whoohoo!!! I can't believe we are almost to having our paperwork in Haiti.
We are just waiting on our psychological evaluation, once we receive this we will authenicate our document with the secretary of state. Next we will be mailing them off to LBB (Love beyond Borders). Were getting ready to send in our translation fee of $300, and they are going to start the translations to Creole (the language in Haiti), while we are waiting for the psych eval and authenicating.
He is a little over 5 months right now, and weights 9lbs 13oz. He is little guy! He has been having a lot of episodes of dehydration, and some vomiting and diarrhea; but I know he is in good hands and that he is being taken care of. It is soo hard to hear about him being sick though, as a mother I just want to be there to hold him and make sure he is ok. It made me almost cry when I read it. Nate was overly emotional reading his history as well. If you are a parent, I'm sure you would know what I mean when I say "It pains us to know about him being sick."
On another note, we finally received our final homestudy today! Whoohoo!!! I can't believe we are almost to having our paperwork in Haiti.
We are just waiting on our psychological evaluation, once we receive this we will authenicate our document with the secretary of state. Next we will be mailing them off to LBB (Love beyond Borders). Were getting ready to send in our translation fee of $300, and they are going to start the translations to Creole (the language in Haiti), while we are waiting for the psych eval and authenicating.
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Dive by Stephen Curtis Chapman
I am reminded often (especially when I hear it) of how amazing God is and the total reliance I need to have on Him; when I hear the song "Dive" by Stephen Curtis Chapman. I feel the words of this song describe exactly how Nate and I have felt this whole adoption process (from the time God told us to "leap in back in August of 07, to trusting in Him each and every day). In this song, the lyrics are:
The long-awaited rain has just fallen hard upon the thirsty ground
Have carved their way to where the wild and rushing river can be found
And like the rain I have been carried here to where the river flows
My heart is racin' and my knees are weak as I walk to the edge
I know there is no turning back once my feet have left the ledge
And in the rush I hear a voice telling me it's time to
Take a leap of faith
So here I go
[CHORUS]
I'm diving in
I'm going deep
In over my head I wanna be
Caught in the rush
Lost in the flow
In over my head I wanna go
The river's deep
The river's wide
The river's water is alive
So sink or swim
I'm diving in
I'm diving in
There is a supernatural power in this mighty river's flow
We can bring the dead to life, we can fill an empty soul
And give a heart the only thing worth living and dying for
But we will never know the awesome power of the grace of God
Until we let ourselves be swept away into this holy flood
So if you'll take my hand and close your eyes and count to three
And take the leap of faith
Come on let's go
This whole adoption we dove in head first, just trusting God. And like the song says "we will never know the awesome power of the grace of God, until we let ourselves be swept away into this holy flood;" If God is tugging on you for something....just "dive in". Let him carry you and overwhelm you with his power and grace. Don't worry about what will happen, how you will have the finances for it, what others will think, what the future of it will bring....just do it! God knows and He plans to prosper and not to harm us....so go ahead and drown in Him!
The long-awaited rain has just fallen hard upon the thirsty ground
Have carved their way to where the wild and rushing river can be found
And like the rain I have been carried here to where the river flows
My heart is racin' and my knees are weak as I walk to the edge
I know there is no turning back once my feet have left the ledge
And in the rush I hear a voice telling me it's time to
Take a leap of faith
So here I go
[CHORUS]
I'm diving in
I'm going deep
In over my head I wanna be
Caught in the rush
Lost in the flow
In over my head I wanna go
The river's deep
The river's wide
The river's water is alive
So sink or swim
I'm diving in
I'm diving in
There is a supernatural power in this mighty river's flow
We can bring the dead to life, we can fill an empty soul
And give a heart the only thing worth living and dying for
But we will never know the awesome power of the grace of God
Until we let ourselves be swept away into this holy flood
So if you'll take my hand and close your eyes and count to three
And take the leap of faith
Come on let's go
This whole adoption we dove in head first, just trusting God. And like the song says "we will never know the awesome power of the grace of God, until we let ourselves be swept away into this holy flood;" If God is tugging on you for something....just "dive in". Let him carry you and overwhelm you with his power and grace. Don't worry about what will happen, how you will have the finances for it, what others will think, what the future of it will bring....just do it! God knows and He plans to prosper and not to harm us....so go ahead and drown in Him!
Thursday, July 31, 2008
July 31, 2008
Welcome to our journey! I can't believe this is happening and so quickly. A little over a month ago, we were in the China program. But we felt like God was telling us to wait a little longer for our daughter from China. While this was heartbreaking, we felt like God had something else in store for us (at the time we did not know what it was, but thought it might be that there is another child out there somewhere that might need us quicker then our daughter from China who is not even born yet). It was heartwrenching to have to agree to wait, but we decided it was what we needed to do. I would say within a week after agreeing that we needed to wait for China, God opened up a door to adopt a beautiful little boy in Haiti.
At first, I saw his picture on the web, and I was thinking he is so precious...but really nothing more. Every other day or so, I would check to see if his picture was still there and of course it was! I also told Nathan about him and how adorable this baby was. Finally after about a week went by, i awoke one day and could not get the picture of this little boy off of my mind. It was seriously driving me bananas as I could not think of anything but him. Nate suggested I should email the adoption agency. I did, but was not holding out much hope as he was up on their site for awhile and I was thinking someone has to already be trying to adopt him.
Well, lo and behold the agency said he was not taken and no one was interested in him at that time! I was amazed and couldn't believe it! Nate and I talked after that and felt like God had brought this little boy into our world. So we jumped in and said we wanted to adopt him. But at the time we didnt even have a homestudy. We did have a portion of our paperwork already (from the China program), so we were able to use that. Well we found a place to complete our homestudy and it is now about a little over a month later and we are getting ready in the next week or two to be able to send our dossier in. I can't believe it! God has been moving so fast with this adoption. Not only that but this baby angel will be officially ours very shortly.
God has been doing amazing things with this adoption. We needed $12,000 pretty much right away (split between upfront, and within a month). We have payed out $3950 (this is not counting all the fees for gathering the paperwork, fingerprints, psychological evaluations, government fees, medical fees, etc). As soon as we are ready to send our dossier into the agency we will need to pay another $8050. We had a garage sale and were blessed by numerous people (donating, prayers, and help during the sale), and brought in over $1200, but we still had a long ways to go. With our savings and the sale we still needed to come up with $4708. But the other day we received a call from Stephanie our adoption coordinator from A love beyond Borders and she told us that one of our fees we will be able to pay later in the adoption (because of our circumstance and how fast the adoption is moving). This knocks off $2500 which brings our total needed down to $2208! Praise God for that blessing! I know that God will help us bring in that last amount, because He has been working miracles throughout this whole adoption so far. But please continue to pray that the money does come in and that God keeps this adoption in the palm of His hand.
At first, I saw his picture on the web, and I was thinking he is so precious...but really nothing more. Every other day or so, I would check to see if his picture was still there and of course it was! I also told Nathan about him and how adorable this baby was. Finally after about a week went by, i awoke one day and could not get the picture of this little boy off of my mind. It was seriously driving me bananas as I could not think of anything but him. Nate suggested I should email the adoption agency. I did, but was not holding out much hope as he was up on their site for awhile and I was thinking someone has to already be trying to adopt him.
Well, lo and behold the agency said he was not taken and no one was interested in him at that time! I was amazed and couldn't believe it! Nate and I talked after that and felt like God had brought this little boy into our world. So we jumped in and said we wanted to adopt him. But at the time we didnt even have a homestudy. We did have a portion of our paperwork already (from the China program), so we were able to use that. Well we found a place to complete our homestudy and it is now about a little over a month later and we are getting ready in the next week or two to be able to send our dossier in. I can't believe it! God has been moving so fast with this adoption. Not only that but this baby angel will be officially ours very shortly.
God has been doing amazing things with this adoption. We needed $12,000 pretty much right away (split between upfront, and within a month). We have payed out $3950 (this is not counting all the fees for gathering the paperwork, fingerprints, psychological evaluations, government fees, medical fees, etc). As soon as we are ready to send our dossier into the agency we will need to pay another $8050. We had a garage sale and were blessed by numerous people (donating, prayers, and help during the sale), and brought in over $1200, but we still had a long ways to go. With our savings and the sale we still needed to come up with $4708. But the other day we received a call from Stephanie our adoption coordinator from A love beyond Borders and she told us that one of our fees we will be able to pay later in the adoption (because of our circumstance and how fast the adoption is moving). This knocks off $2500 which brings our total needed down to $2208! Praise God for that blessing! I know that God will help us bring in that last amount, because He has been working miracles throughout this whole adoption so far. But please continue to pray that the money does come in and that God keeps this adoption in the palm of His hand.
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