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.