Monday, August 27, 2012
Headband anyone!?
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Surprised
I am so grateful and thankful for all the support that has been shown since Our Big News was announced. I hate to say this but I am a little surprised by it. I never thought that so many people would be so excited and open to the idea of our adoption. I have had so many kind things said to me about how great it is that Derrick and I are saving a child.... I can't take the credit for it. It is all to obey the Lord. Of course saving a child's life is important too but would I have done this on my own... Sorry to burst every ones bubble but... Not this girl! Without my relationship with God and a lot of praying this would not have been possible for me. Don't get me wrong I am so excited and can't wait to meet my little baby but it has taken time and prayers to get to this point. I have to say though the support from family and friends is amazing. So Thank You! Thanks for all the offers to help!! Just know if you are offering to help I'm probably gonna take you up on that offer :) I'm pretty needy right now..
So Derrick and I had our first interview on Tuesday. I thought it went well, Derrick on the other hand might say different. I think he screwed up on some of the yes and no questions one of them being about divorce. Basically the lady probably thinks he is secretly going to divorce me. LOL. Let's hope she knows he didn't mean that. I hope he didnt anyway. J
On to more about surprises. I keep surprising myself. I am now doing crafts!! If you know me very well that is probably really funny. If you know me very well you probably think this isn't me even typing these blog entrys. I understand because I'm surprised too! Thats what happens when you let Jesus take the wheel :) Just sayin he surprises you all the time.. Back to the crafts. We may have a booth at the Iron Horse Festival. That is if we get some crafts made by the deadline to sign up to have a booth. There will also be a booth at the Arts and Crafts Fair called Maggies Hope. Details to come...
Our Yard Sale is September 15! We have a location now!! The owners of Extreme Swing offered their parking lot to us! If anyone wants to donate yard sale items just let me know. I will gladly take whatever you have to offer. IGA of New Haven has offered to donate food to sale at the Yard Sale. My church family has offered to make baked goods to sale. God is good! Hope to see yall there :)
So Derrick and I had our first interview on Tuesday. I thought it went well, Derrick on the other hand might say different. I think he screwed up on some of the yes and no questions one of them being about divorce. Basically the lady probably thinks he is secretly going to divorce me. LOL. Let's hope she knows he didn't mean that. I hope he didnt anyway. J
On to more about surprises. I keep surprising myself. I am now doing crafts!! If you know me very well that is probably really funny. If you know me very well you probably think this isn't me even typing these blog entrys. I understand because I'm surprised too! Thats what happens when you let Jesus take the wheel :) Just sayin he surprises you all the time.. Back to the crafts. We may have a booth at the Iron Horse Festival. That is if we get some crafts made by the deadline to sign up to have a booth. There will also be a booth at the Arts and Crafts Fair called Maggies Hope. Details to come...
Our Yard Sale is September 15! We have a location now!! The owners of Extreme Swing offered their parking lot to us! If anyone wants to donate yard sale items just let me know. I will gladly take whatever you have to offer. IGA of New Haven has offered to donate food to sale at the Yard Sale. My church family has offered to make baked goods to sale. God is good! Hope to see yall there :)
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Our BIG News!
Derrick and I are excited to announce that we are adopting from Ethiopia!! We are adopting through a Christian Agency called Lifeline. I am sharing our adoption journey with the hopes that it will answer questions if you are considering adoption or inspire those of you who have never considered adoption to adopt.
The first question that everyone has asked me is what made you decide to adopt when you can have children of your own. This is a very hard question for me. It is hard to explain. All I can say is God wanted me to and I am obeying him. When God showed me that this was his plan for me it was not easy. In my selfish mind I thought of way more reasons why I shouldn't adopt than why I should.
*I already have two beautiful children and I want to have another of my own (which we prolly will just to go ahead and put that out there)
*We do not have the money. Where will we get it?
* It makes me sick to even think about flying and on top of that I will be leaving my kids twice for a week.
* What will people think of me?? Adopting a child of another race. Will people be accepting?
After many months of being scared to death and a emotional roller coaster we decided to start the adoption process. Without prayer and trusting in God none of this would have been possible. I hardly have any of those fears that I had in the beginning. Our life has already been changed and we haven't even set eyes on our child. ( Just Sayin :) )
So far we have turned in our adoption application and it has been accepted!! We received more paper work via email to complete so that we can start our home studies. There will be 4 home studies (details to come). The agency told us that it can be up to 2 yrs before we bring our child home. As far as male or female we are still undecided. We are wanting a baby or toddler.
Derrick and I will be doing some Fundraisers for our adoption. We will be having a yard sale Sept 15. Not sure of location yet. We will also be selling tee shirts :)
The first question that everyone has asked me is what made you decide to adopt when you can have children of your own. This is a very hard question for me. It is hard to explain. All I can say is God wanted me to and I am obeying him. When God showed me that this was his plan for me it was not easy. In my selfish mind I thought of way more reasons why I shouldn't adopt than why I should.
*I already have two beautiful children and I want to have another of my own (which we prolly will just to go ahead and put that out there)
*We do not have the money. Where will we get it?
* It makes me sick to even think about flying and on top of that I will be leaving my kids twice for a week.
* What will people think of me?? Adopting a child of another race. Will people be accepting?
After many months of being scared to death and a emotional roller coaster we decided to start the adoption process. Without prayer and trusting in God none of this would have been possible. I hardly have any of those fears that I had in the beginning. Our life has already been changed and we haven't even set eyes on our child. ( Just Sayin :) )
So far we have turned in our adoption application and it has been accepted!! We received more paper work via email to complete so that we can start our home studies. There will be 4 home studies (details to come). The agency told us that it can be up to 2 yrs before we bring our child home. As far as male or female we are still undecided. We are wanting a baby or toddler.
Derrick and I will be doing some Fundraisers for our adoption. We will be having a yard sale Sept 15. Not sure of location yet. We will also be selling tee shirts :)
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