All of the glory goes to God!  This morning I am not feeling well physically.  I have a nasty cold but, I am feeling so blessed!  Our fundraiser last night was so overwhelming!  We were blown away by the love and support shown to us by so many people. Let me back up...last night we had a silent auction and pancake supper fundraiser for our adoption expenses.  This was so far out of our comfort zone on SO many levels!  The idea of raising money is very uncomfortable.  The idea of raising money for ourselves magnifies that by about 100!!  Based on the sheer expense of international adoption, we knew we could not do move forward without some help.  We prayed about how best to do this and the silent auction/flapjack fundraiser was born! Now that we had a plan, we needed items for our auction.  Greg is a very talented woodworker (well he's talented at everything;)).  We began in February working on making items for the donation ourselves.  We made pallet signs, centerpieces, trash t

We have finally completed our home study!  This is super exciting and super scary at the same time.  It is definitely becoming more real!!  What does this mean?  Well,  the home study is lots of paperwork, interviews, and all the information that you could possibly gather about our family.  We had to submit paperwork about our pets.  We had to undergo psychiatric evaluations.  We had to be interviewed as a family and separately!  We had to delve way back into our childhood & upbringing!  We had to submit financial information!  I didn't know as much about myself as I do now;) Once the home study is complete, we have approval to move forward in this crazy process!  Now, we will send all of this information to the US immigration's in order to get approval to adopt from a foreign country.  This will involve submitting our home study, back ground checks, DSS clearance and fingerprints!  I firmly believe that if everyone had to go through all of this in order to have a baby, t

You are to adopt 2 children from Haiti...What?! I had been having dreams/nightmares about adoption several times over a period of years.  I never really shared with Hubby my struggle.  We had talked about adoption being a part of our plan but, it would be in the future.  We really didn’t know what it would look like.  I honestly wasn't even sure if I could love a child that I had not birthed!   I can see how God was preparing us for this all along!  We had a cousin come live with us for about 9 weeks last year and I learned that I could love someone who I had not birthed...fiercely! After Hurricane Matthew hit Haiti, Hubby heard a story on the radio of the devastation and loss of lives.  He said he cried just listening.  As he drove into work listening, he felt God prompting him to adopt a child from Haiti.  By the time he got to work, he felt like God wanted him to adopt 2 children from Haiti! He came home and shared with me a few days later.  I felt like he had pun