Showing posts with label adoption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adoption. Show all posts

Friday, January 07, 2011

Whats Going On?



Do you ever feel like you are missing something and cannot figure out what it is?
I have been missing something and it is this ~ my blog and all of you!

So since the last time we spoke things have been pretty good

*Through faith we got through the unemployment hurdle and my hubby is now working for the unemployment office... go figure!

*I believe that we are #5 on the adoption list as of right now

*Still making changes to the house and loving every second of it including decluttering (pics will follow of this process)

*I have not found a full time job yet

* Mom launched her baking business
Italian Pepper Cookies

*Planning my parents 40th wedding anniversary party for April

I will be back ...promise!


Thursday, April 15, 2010

It's Official!!!

I am so excited!!!!

After almost 3 years of awaiting to adopt... we are FINALLY approved by the board of directors and all paper work is complete... the only thing... is now we wait for the call that our baby has arrived!!!!

This may take a while still BUT we are officially ready to adopt... our home study and clearances and all that other good stuff is OVER!!!

I am anxiously awaiting a phone call now... LOL
God is so good!!

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Adoption Update...

Patiently we wait... 2 years, 11 months today!
We are still at a standstill... at the same place we have been at. 
A lot of things have been happening behind the scenes though and things are moving along for those ahead of us. 
On Monday we are having our homestudy... we needed to wait until we were closer although it still may take 2 more years for our adoption to be complete. 
Patience and faith...

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

No Coincidence!


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I was so excited to be paired up with Megan from A Little Knick Knack
I just knew that Meg was going to be a wonderful pair when I saw her header on her blog WAS (as in used to be... but her new one is awesome!)... the same as mine!!

There are no coincidences in life!

I excitedly picked out some spring goodies and things I love  for Megan and sent them on their way last week. 

Today it is in the 50's and I went outside to check on the yard ... when I looked at the side porch there was a HUGE box on the stoop... 
I did not order anything I thought so I took it in the house and when I looked at the return address I was surprised to see that it was from Meg!

I then took the package into the living room and after a few "what is that... who is that from" questions from my hubby 
I took out a  bubble wrapped frame?...a toile wrapped square and  a card. 

I held the package on my lap and opened the monogram G card... a beautiful  note from Megan!

Next I opened the tolie wrapped square and ... the tears began to flow  it was the

"I'll Love You Forever" book!!!

Crying... I showed the hubby who put his head down and sniffed!

The large part of the gift was bubbled so I could not see what it was (I suspected a frame) ... trying to see through my tears I began to take off the bubble wrap... and to my surprise was indeed  a frame... 
of  
the words ... "I'll love you forever"...

Well let me tell ya... the two of us are now blubbering ... sobbing!!!
What a beautiful soul Megan is!!
I'll tell you I am still crying!!! 
The frame is shabby and it has a yellow background and a pale blueish gray vinyl lettering... there is a tie that is a yellow ribbon with a black and white check!


it is so ....BEAUTIFUL!!!

 I had no idea when I signed up for this Spring Fling that I would be so blessed with an heirloom for our baby. 
I am beside myself and know that Thank you is just not enough. 
I am so blessed!
I can see myself rocking our baby, reading the book and looking up at the frame... knowing that dreams do come true and strangers become friends and that there are no coincidences!


THANK YOU MEGAN...XOXOX

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I did not plan to share this on our blog yet   but after what happened today... now I will. 
I had been adamantly against the foster to adopt program since we began our adoption journey. 
For the last few weeks though as I would pray... I had the thought of doing this program. 
If it is God's will.... we will pursue it  ...so I gave it to God!

In the last few days I could not stop thinking about fostering an infant ... who's goal is  adoption. 

Getting this frame from Megan is a sign from God, I believe, that we should look into this further. 

When I say there are no coincidences... I mean it!

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

"The process of adopting a child pushes your personal envelope as a woman, as a mother, and ultimately, as a human being.






It takes more courage than you think you have, offers more self-knowledge than you think you want, and reassembles your characteristics into someone familiar but changed."





Jana Wolff, Secret Thoughts of an Adopted Mother

Sunday, October 04, 2009

Sunday Favorites





I am participating in Sunday Favorites HERE!
I never participated before but thought today was a great day to share with all of you my favorite blog post!

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

I am so excited for someone I never met,
but who has inspired me in our journey more than she will ever know
Rebekah's baby boy was born today
You can read about her journey to her miracle here
She is a woman of God who has faith beyond anyone I know!
~God bless Rebekah and Ben and Baby Boy and Rebekah~
Their journey is not over

Saturday, May 30, 2009

I am so excited I just can't hide it!!!






This arrived yesterday and I LOVE IT!!!

Oh and DH loves it too and even read through the WHOLE thing and got a tear in his eye

He even commented that the journal was so appropriate for our situation

I am SOOOO excited to fill it up buttercup!!!