Since my last post I have had quite a bit goin on. There have been so many days when I wanted to grab the computer and make a blog entry but never got around to it. I have so many people to thank and so much to be thankful for. God is doing some amazing things in my life just like I knew he was going to when he placed adoption on my heart. Now that God has called me to adopt I continuously find myself wanting him to ask me to do more. When he placed adoption on my heart I really struggled with it for a while and I thought I don't know if I can obey him or not. Now I'm praying like what have you got for me now God?? Like I can do anything and well I know now that through him I can do anything! I can face my fears! It just takes trusting and praying and people praying for you and supporting you. God has worked in my heart and through the hearts of others and it is amazing to experience his works personally every day.
Derrick and I had a home study on Sept 4th. Nothing exciting really happened. Lily and Davis had to be present. She took a tour of the house, asking if we had smoke alarms, fire extinguisher, guns nothing major. Asked us questions about our marriage as usual..Davis feel and hit his head as usual. It was easy nothing to be nervous about. Derrick is always so nervous. I ask him if there might be something he is hiding from me that the social worker is going to find ;) She then told us in order to move on to the next interviews (which are Derrick and I individually) (He's really gonna be nervous on that one) we needed to complete our autobiographies. (We completed those Yesterday and Our individual interviews are scheduled for Oct 2)
We had a HUGE yard sale this past Saturday Sept 15. Thanks so much to everyone that came and showed their support and helped out!! Derrick and I really are blessed with amazing friends and family... I mean amazing! It was a perfect day. We got to get to know our church family and build our relationships with them and I got to hang out with 2 of my besties that have been there for me my whole life! We couldn't have had it at a better place. The owners of Extreme Swing my cousin her husband and daughter spent the night there the night before and helped set up bright and early the morning of the yard sale. My friend from way back who works at IGA had hot dogs, buns, drinks and hamburgers donated. Our Sunday School class took care of the baked goods and cooking the food. We had tons of items donated from so many good people. If you didn't make it to the yard sale you missed out! It was a success!
This whole experience so far has been a little overwhelming at times.. All of this is not something that I would have ever saw myself doing. If someone had told me 2 years ago I would be doing all this I would have laughed at them and not believed it for a minute. It's not really my style.. Man has God cramped my style!... I hate receiving! I don't receive much of anything very well ex. complements, hugs, kisses, money, gifts, etc. Well lets just say I'm getting much better at all of it. I find myself wanting to hug people (Crazy) I used to cringe at the thought :) I have to say I have received a lot of gifts and we have raised more money than we thought we would have at this point but none of that is as exciting as seeing God work in the life's of others. This whole process is changing life's for the better including mine and Derricks. I can't even explain how awesome it is.... And this is only the beginning.
Derrick and I decided that we will be open to male or female as of right now. We don't want the child to be older than Davis, so baby to age 3 if it's a year from now. Please pray for our soon to be child.
