Hakuna Matata

As of now, we have mailed in our aplication, and my parents will be attending several trainings next month regarding parenting the children and what not. After that, well, just waiting to be approved and having our homestudy before we can start looking at children. Not so far away? I better think again. It could be several months before we can begin looking at children, and nearly two months before we have our home study. During that time we will be praying and watching for a new house (if needed to add two more children) that has all the factors we want. Or atleast most of the long list of factors we want. If a new house is needed we will need to find the right one. Once we find the house and buy it, we must move in. If all that happens and we do move, we must complete another homestudy.

And we want all this to happen by the end of this October.

God do your work, your way, I will leave it to you and only you. I will let it be and everything will turn out ok.

Since I am going to Africa this year with my family, I decided to figure out a way to help raise some money to cover plane tickets and what not. I came up with the idea of making card sets to sell. To the right is a photo of the four cards that come in the set. The set includes envelopes and is $8.00 (plus shipping if needed) Let me know if anyone wants a set.

It's all new to me!

I have always wanted a sister, and have always been grateful for the brother I do have. I always knew that my family would be just the four of us, my mom, dad, brother, and me. Until now.

Not to long ago my parents were talking with us about going back to Africa for a visit, when my brother said "Yeah! And what if, we decided to adopt a kid! That would be so cool! We would have a sibling from Africa!" It was then that we started to think seriously about adopting. For a while everyone was totally into the idea except me. I was the skeptical and indecisive one. I kept thinking: What if they don't like us. What if we don't like them. What if I don't want to share my room and I have to. What if we have to move and we move far away from my friends. What if, what if, what if. It went on like this for a while until one night I had a dream. Nothing was visible in my dream, but I could just tell that I was supposed to not worry about it, and let God do his work and that everything would turn out okay.

We are working on finishing up our huge application process and then it is on to the home study. Once we pass the home study and they approve our application, we will be free to start finding two children that we feel, God would like us to have.

God has clearly worked through all of us to come to the agreement to adopt and we will just have to wait and be patient to see what comes next. We have huge surprises around the corner and are always praying that we will find the house that we need, the new jobs we need, and that the new changes coming will help us find the strength and courage we need as a family to help the two new children God is bringing into our life, become the wonderful children, and amazing new family members, we will help them grow up to be.