counting down

Well it is Monday March 31 and we are counting down the days!! Praise God for all kinds of small miracles happening to our family. At this point I am not nervous about anything but making sure that we have all of our paperwork with us. We just strongly ask for your prayer support. I have a dining room table with lists and forms all lined up. With the help of Julie and Rob we also have suitcases ready to go. The girls are packed and now I will concentrate on getting Jay and my things together. Thank you cell group for the special time of prayer last night. It is reassuring to know that your prayers are with us and that while we are gone you will continue to pray. I am glad that we have a community of believers that love us and most important love our sons and daughters.

coming!!

Evie and Mazie, Your parents are coming!! Yea, Our case worker called this morning we have our embassy date for the 8th of April. We will fly out on the 4th and return the following Friday. So much to do so much to think about!! Please be in prayer for our 3 sons staying at home. They will most certainly end up tired and will get on each others nerves because rather said or not they are nervous too. I mean think about it for the last 15 1/2 years mom has been the only girl in the house!! Things will change! I will update later but gotta run and make lists!! Praise God I'm seeing His glory today!!

disappointed!!

Can someone out there say a prayer for me?? I am so disappointed that we didn't hear anything today. My Lord what are you teaching me now?? I did get a bunch of cleaning done today and went to the Walmart to pick up Gain and a new sweeper belt. I swept up one of my slipper socks in my zeal for cleaning!! Well off to make the pot stickers for supper. Please God send me a message tomorrow!! I want to hold our girls!!

Easter Sunday

Happy Easter to each of you. It was a beautiful day and one that God let all His glory shine! I am so happy to have been in a service were God's presence was felt. My Lord gave His son that day and then He brought Him up from the grave to sit on His right side. AMEN!! I am by no means a Bible scholar. I do know though that the Lord loves each of us. Yesterday morning I called a new friend, Nancy, from "upnorth". Her and her husband are adopting 2 children from Ethiopia. They also are using CWA which was nice to hear since we are pleased with them and recommend them to other people. Walking with the Lord is not easy and in my very sinful nature I only ask for my sins to be forgiven and Christ's blood wash me clean. I know that in my past there have been things I did not listen to and I am sure there will be things in the future that I will question and even possibly ignore but this calling we could not ignore. God has asked us each to take care of His children and how could we not love and cherish just 2 of His children that would possibly never have a chance to hear or learn about Him. Just as Christ knew that Britt, Dru, Kolby and Tate would be our children He also knew that these girls would also be ours. What a cool thought! We missed Britt today. I wish he were not so very far from home. My young men all looked handsome in their "Sunday best". Jay just left to fly to Calif. for the week so I'm on my own. Well not really with the boys here!! I am going to get some "stuff" packed. I am also going to pray, pray and pray some more that we get our embassy date and are on our way to those sweet girls!! God bless you

our beautiful daughters

Ok so here they are. Now that I think I know how to do this I will put a family picture of our sons up too!! Soon I will be showing a picture of a family of 4 sons and 2 daughters. On another note we just received a call saying we have been chosen to receive a grant from Caroline's Promise. My joy and Jay's is over the top right now. Although we do not have our embassy date we were still trying to figure out how to put our cash together and also pay for our plane tickets!! Praise God for this answer. We should never doubt God's grace but as humans we do. I have said so many times that this journey started August 05 and it has been a long pregnancy. I am now having all the symptoms of child birth. the anxious feelings, the nesting and the joy that comes with the fear of the unknown. thank the Lord He knows all our needs. Thank you to Caroline's Promise and all of you that have helped in so many ways!! thanks Lisa and Dave and CP's board!!

picture

Hi all here it is Thursday March 20 and we thought we would have our embassy date. We found out that it is a holiday in Ethiopia today and tomorrow is Good Friday here and our agency is closed so we will not know anything til Monday at the earliest!! YUCK!! I want to go now but as usual for our adoption journey we wait again. I am going to try and post a picture of our new daughters on line!! Hold on this mom is not good at computer "stuff"

court date

On thursday March 6th we passed our court date. We are now the parents of 2 daughters and have 6 children!! We wait now for our embassy date which we should get very soon. The girls are doing fine or as best as can be expected. A new friend Ginger jsut gave me 3 bags of hand me downs so I will only need to get Evie a couple of things. I need to get Mazie some clothes and think I'll get out of the house this morning and do that. Keep reading. I will post when we get our date. Please pray for our oldest son. He will be having surgery to repair acl and another muscle? Britt is alone in Fl. and will need help after the surgery. We are trying to figure out how to do that plus take care of 2 girls.