A happy update.

Just a little while after my last post, we received an updated picture of our boy. It made for one happy mama. He was pictured with his foster mother and the package we sent him. I cropped the picture to protect the foster mother's privacy since this is a public website. The picture was taken on March 6th, he was about 7 1/2 months old at the time. As of today (Monday) we don't have any new news, but hopefully if not this week then next week. Here's that gorgeous boy.

An update on us.

Here we are at the end of spring break. I feel more exhausted than ever. I'm sure that part of my problem is mental. I spent a couple of days at my sister's house helping out with the new babies. The girls had a great time at their Mamaw's house. The got to do something fun each day and were spoiled.
Today we are back home and I have tons to catch up on. My sweet, sweet husband took the day off and is taking the girls to the gym while I pay bills. A task I can't complete with things going on around me. I think he's kind of worried about me today. I'm a little down, but mostly overwhelmed by life today.
For an adoption update, we are waiting on a couple of things to happen in Korea. The hard part is that this stage of the process could happen in a few days or a few weeks. So, it's hard to say just exactly when our boy will be home. God has been so faithful, in that everything up until this point has gone so quickly. I realize that this could be part of the issue (Korea trying to catch up to the quick process on the US side)
I also need to mention more that God has done for us. We did not receive one of the grants that we applied for. I know that sounds like bad news, but I believe there are other families out there who need it more than we do. Because, drum roll please.........we are about $500 short of our final goal. God is AWESOME. He has made this possible and we haven't even had to try that hard. Trusting is the key, He is worthy of all our trust. He is faithful. So just keep praying that our boy will come in His time and that I will not fall apart in the meantime.

A blogging slump.

I'm not exactly sure what's up with me lately. I am in a blogging slump. Maybe it's because my blogging friends (who orginally lured me into this world) have stopped the daily posting. Maybe it's the fact that I have very few readers. Maybe it's that fact that I'm feeling very unmotivated and might I say LAZY these days. I am considering rethinking this whole thing. Why am I blogging in the first place. I thought it would be a fun way to share my life and family with the world. I've enjoyed being able to document the things my girls do, or the ways God is blessing us. I'm just wondering if I should do this in a more private way. So, stay tuned, i'm considering going private. For now my blog will stay public,but if I decide to go private I will let you know. Thanks for reading. By the way, I'm late in posting these but here are a couple of pics of my sweet cheerleaders. Little Sis is in the center of the group in the bottom pic.

A package filled with love.

We were able to send a package to our boy in Korea. I took a few days to get it together and I shipped it on Tuesday. Hopefully, it will be there before his next Well Baby visit, when his foster mother brings him in to the agency.
I included just a few things in the package. Two small toys, an outfit with a bib, a treat of "Moose Munch" for the foster family, a blanket and a photo book. Josh and I slept with the blanket in our bed for a few nights. Hopefully it will have our scent on it to get him used to us. The photo book was fun to put together. I included pictures of all four of us and wrote our "names" in Korean. Well, not really Korea, but the English pronunciation of the Korean names. Korea uses a different alphabet than we do. It's exciting to me to think that our boy could be looking at our pictures in just a couple of weeks.

You can be praying that the package gets to him. Also that the rest of our paperwork goes through at a good speed. So far the process is going much faster than we thought it would. An application we filed on Feb.12, was supposed to take two weeks to two months to process, to 8 days!! God is Awesome!!

I'm adding a picture of the package contents and also a couple pics of my new neice and nephew, just for fun. Baby Girl has pink feet on her blanket, Baby Boy has purple. They are both doing fine.

2 new arrivals!

The twins were born!!

My sister had a Dr appt. on Friday. She'd been having a few contractions and the Dr wanted to monitor her. She was having contractions every 5 minutes. She wasn't dilating or even feeling them. Dr said she would stay in the hospital and he would take the babies (c-section) on Sat. morning as long as everything stayed the same.
My mom and dad threw things in the truck to head down south.

My parents were about 1/2 way there Friday night when my sister's husband called and said that her contractions were now 2 minutes apart and the Dr was prepping for surgery. The babies were born around 10:30 Friday night.

The boy was 1st. He weighed 7lbs and was 19 inches long. The little girl came 2nd and weighed 6lbs 14oz and was 20 inches long.

I hurried down to Texarkana on Saturday for a quick visit. I got in as much snuggle time as I could. They are both very cute but look NOTHING alike. Big brother is not really acknowledging them yet, but they go home today, so we shall see how that goes.

Two Big!!

Something exciting has been brewing in my family for the last few months. My younger sister is expecting twins, a boy and a girl. We are all so very excited.

At her last Dr visit,she is just 35 weeks, the babies were measured during an ultrasound. The girl is measuring at almost 7 lbs and her brother is measuring at just about 6lbs. Also, the doctor scheduled the C-section for March 5th. Those babies might just be two little chunks. My dad was a twin and he and his brother were 7+ and 8+ pounds at birth. My poor grandma. So we'll just have to wait and see if these two set a family record.

A Promise, Prayer and Praise!

A few of years ago I began praying about adopting. It's actually something Josh and I talked about before we got married. It seemed to come to the forefront of my mind. I knew it was a calling God had given me because the feeling was so strong. At one point, a couple of years ago,Josh and I decided we would NOT adopt (for financial reasons) but it didn't take long before the feelings came back stronger than ever. I truly believe this is something that God wants us to do. He has picked this boy out especially for our family.

Since I began praying I promised God that He would get the glory for everything that happens in this process. We have had worries ($) and concerns ($) that we feel we can't overcome. I've tried to have faith that God will provide. This is hard for my husband. I guess it's a guy thing, he sees the Wall ($25,00) and doesn't know how to get over it. God has already revealed Himself in so many ways I am going to keep my promise and give Him the glory, even if that means revealing a little more information than I might have otherwise. Here goes.

-The fee for Korea is typically 17,000+, when we got our paperwork our fee had been reduced to $13,000. PRAISE THE LORD!

-We received a grant from our agency for another $2,000 just for asking. PRAISE THE LORD!!

-Josh is in school and had been getting GI Bill checks. A few weeks ago he said he didn't think he had anymore coming, that he'd used it up. Okay, no big deal. Well Thursday we are going to KC to file some paper work with immigration. It comes along with a fee that totals about $800, well, one day last week I went out to the mail and found a GI Bill check for almost $600, tell me that's not God!! PRAISE THE LORD!!!

We have applied for two more grants that we haven't heard from yet so be praying about that. We have about 1/3 of our fees taken care of and are still working on the rest. I KNOW that God will provide. I'm so excited to see God working in my life and the life of my little boy.

Psalm 105:2 "Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all this wonderful acts."