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 :)