Adoption Fundraiser/Virtual Garage Sale Part 2
Here is the second set of things we need to get out of our garage AND sell so that we can move forward with the next adoption step! Check out these photos! I also have 2 solid wood, almond colored highchairs for sale as well for $75 each… I just haven’t gotten a photo of them yet since it’s been raining!
Read MoreCleaning Garage/Virtual Garage Sale Part 1
As many of you know, one way that I have been working to earn money for our adoption is by fixing up and selling furniture. I have several pieces sitting in my garage currently that I have been negligent in getting sold. I also have some things in my garage that just simply need to be gone. I thought that doing a couple posts with photos of the items that need to be gone would be a nice easy way to display everything at once. As you guessed, ALL proceeds from the sale of these items will go towards bringing our baby home. **Update- Large yellow dresser has been sold!** If you are interested in purchasing, or have questions about any of these items, please...
Read MoreKindle Fire and How You Can Help
Once upon a time, there was a boy and a girl. They met in High School and started dating. After a while, the boy and the girl fell in love. He asked her to marry him and she said yes. The boy and the girl got married and began their life together. They decided that, among other things, that they would wait two years to start their family, have three children, and never have more than one in diapers at one time. And God laughed. Within the first year of their marriage, both the boy and the girl felt the call to adopt children into their family. But the timing was not right. Before the end of their first year, they were surprised with a pregnancy. Their first son was born in July of 2000 and brought much joy into their lives. Their second son was...
Read MoreMoving and Standing Still Part 2
Meanwhile, there have been heart stirrings going on in my own heart. For the last few weeks, I have inexplicably been feeling like it is time to start working on the baby’s room. In our new house, God has provided for us an extra bedroom. Since we moved in here in October, the room has been waiting. Initially, it was sort of empty-ish… sort of a storage room. Then I decided that I wanted to set up the crib in there. At the very least, we have friends with babies, who take naps sometimes at our house, so it could be used for them. But mostly, I wanted to set it up for me.. to give me hope that at some point there WOULD be a baby in that room. It was used for a guest room for a few weeks, but the crib has remained. Although that bedroom has...
Read MoreMoving and Standing Still
I am mostly writing this post for me. I’m not sure I will publish it, but I want to have some sort of record of the things that have been happening over the last few weeks with our adoption, so I have the ability to look back and remember what happened. It’s so hard sometimes to know if and when you are hearing God. Sometimes I think I hear Him clearly, but I’m wrong. And other times I feel like I am going way out on a limb, with not much to go on, and I look back and see His fingerprints all over the situation. That is what I am hoping for this time. After a full year from when we started, our home study was finally finished in February. That, in and of itself was miraculous and sort of surreal. It had felt for months like it was...
Read MoreWe Make Our Plans, But HE Guides Our Steps
It’s been a really long time since we’ve updated our adoption blog… I mean, a LONG time. It was partly because we didn’t know what to say and partly because we weren’t sure if we should say anything at all. Well, also because we moved. And then there was the lice, then Thanksgiving, and Christmas, followed by puking. But mostly it was because of the first part. It’s been a very long and very difficult 3 months, filled with sadness and grief and waiting… and lots and lots of tears. Waiting is always difficult. But it seems especially so, when you don’t know what you are even waiting for. You are just waiting for some sort of neon sign from God telling you which way to go. The thing is… I don’t...
Read MoreHeart Stirrings Part 2
Sometimes when I write, I find myself churning my words and thoughts over and over in my mind. Especially when the words that I am writing or have written are words that mean something down to my core. I thought that my original Heart Stirrings was a post in and of itself. But it turns out that I have more to say about what I have written. These thoughts, these feelings, these deep profound Biblical realizations have been simmering for quite some time. God has been gentle, but persistent in His pursual of my heart. I have felt wordless for quite some time because I have just been ‘pondering these things in my heart’. But I feel the time of pondering is coming to an end, and the time for words and actions is here. For all of my life, I have...
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