Home Study Time!!

Our first home study is scheduled for this Saturday!!

Excited, nervous, and stressed!! ;) Please pray it goes well!

 

If you read my first blog post (We are adopting!), you know that the main way God led us to adopt a little girl from India is because of human trafficking. I just finished a fiction book based on human trafficking of children right here in America. If you like to read fiction novels, I recommend this one. It will really open your eyes to what human trafficking is really like. It is written by a Christian author so there are no cuss words and it does not get graphic. I bought it and downloaded it through my Nook app.

 

Eli, our middle son, had Award's Day at school today. He had THE BEST teacher for 2nd grade. We are going to  miss her!!! She had the sweetest slideshow put together for the parents to watch today. The end had a picture of each student with a paper saying what they wanted to be in the future...my child said...wait for it...video gamer! Haha!

 

So proud of him for making the 50 Mile Club! They had to run a mile in under 12 minutes for it to count towards their miles.

 

Lastly, this cute little face needs a home ASAP! Let me know if you want her :) She is 6 weeks old.

 

 

Yard Sale Fundraisers

This post will mainly be pictures because I love pictures! ;)

 

We have done 3 yard sales to raise money for our adoption. We are SO thankful for all the donations!!! But we are also yard saled-out (is that a word!?) at this point. It is a lot of work!

 

Our first yard sale was at my parents' house. My poor daddy's birthday was spent with us taking over his house with all our stuff! My momma stayed up late and got up early with me to get it all set up. My sister helped sort out clothes and watch the boys. My mother-in-law helped watched Matthew, our 2 year old. They all helped us pack stuff back up that did not sell. I love my family and am so thankful for them!

 

 



 Our second yard sale was at a sweet, sweet couple in our church's house in Emerald Mountain. They let us come set up the night before and then stuck it out with us through the whole yard sale. We are so thankful and appreciative to you both, Mrs. Joann and Mr. Donald!

Mrs. Joann sent us home with the balloons from their mailbox for the yard sale. She told us to pray as a family for baby sister and then let the balloons go. Eli wanted to write a message on his before sending it up, so we all decided to.

 



 

I kept mine and Matthew's balloons tied together just in case he let go of his during the prayer. But once we did let go ours got stuck on the powerline! Oh well! We said that would be a visual reminder to pray for baby sister!!

Our last yard sale was at Santuck Flea Market. We did not make near the money at it as we did the first two, but all the kittens have a home to go to in 2 weeks because of it! Score!!

 

 

Between our 3 yard sales and some online sales we have made $1,659.32!

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to all who donated and helped!

 

 

I had a busy Mother's Day...these pictures are the best I could find of all 3 of my boys together yesterday.

 

I'm so grateful to be momma to these 3 boys and to baby sister who we haven't even met yet but is in our prayers daily!

 

We are waiting to hear from our social worker anytime now to get our home study set up! Please pray that goes well!!

 

 

 

Paperwork is DONE!!!

I finished all the paperwork FINALLY!!

 

It was a lot...I mean, look how thick that stack is!

 

Caleb and Eli even had to sign a form...

 

The hardest part for me was the financial paperwork...it got confusing and frustrating at times.

But praise the Lord, it is done!

I had all the paperwork spread out all over our island so I could fill in the Financial Statement.

 

We also had to take pictures of the room we will be putting our baby girl in, our room, living room, dining room, kitchen, front of house, and back of house to be turned in with our paperwork.

Can you spy Dixie, our yellow lab? :)

 

I will be putting all of this in the mail to Children of the World tomorrow.

 

Just a little info...and pictures to go with it ;)...of our lives this past month...

We have 4 kittens at our house right now! They were born either late April 10th or early April 11th.

Newborn!

1 week old!

2 weeks old!

You know you want one!! ;)

 

While I was getting supplies for a ladies craft night I do at church, I found this cute fabric that I just had to buy for baby sister's room...I'm thinking I might make pillows with it.

 

I became an independent beauty consultant with Mary Kay under my sweet friend Courtney!

50% of all products sold go straight into our adoption fund!! Thank you to all who have ordered from me already. You are helping us to reach our cost of $28,000 to bring baby sister home.

 Our youth minister's wife, Rebecca, hosted my first Mary Kay party. Thank you Rebecca!!

Please contact me if you are willing to do a skin care party (only lasts an hour) and will help me gain customers. :)

 

I will share all about our yard sales on the next post!

 

I want to leave you with the video linked below. I have not seen the movie, but the trailer shows the spiritual oppression in India and China. It also gives me more specifics to pray for our precious daughter. I pray for her protection most of all right now! God knows who she is, if she has been born yet or not. And I trust He will hold her in His almighty hands!

 

The 3 deadliest words in the world...It's a girl