Authentication

Our dossier is ready to go to San Francisco - Off to the Chinese Consulate. Here each piece of paper gets a stamp and comes back to us... We have about 14 documents that i've spent about 2 hrs. making copies of and paper clipping just perfectly...

An Abundance of Blessings...

WOW! What an amazing week! Here's an update of more blessings... So, earlier this week we had good news from our agency and then the next day we had a generous gift. Well, it didn't stop there! The next day we got an order for 80 crosses (we makes Disciple's Cross' -we started when we adopted Hayleigh) and we got our papers back from State Certification. Then today we got an offer on our trailer - we are praying that it will work out but we have some special "angels" out there that really want it and are wanting to help us out:)

Thank you so much for your prayers - we are just overjoyed!!!

Blessings...

I feel that i need to share some wonderful blessings. I think that God gives us these blessings for several reasons and one is that they need to be shared so everyone can see how faithful and gracious He is!

Going into this adoption has taken alot more "thought". One of these major "thoughts" has been $$$$$$! Going into this adoption my DH and I agreed that we would rely fully on God to provide it and not taking a short term loan etc. (until we get taxes back to pay it off etc.) Of course, we are human, and as i shared with my bible study group - i've had some doubts about it -- not too sure where that $ will come from... I've had several of people share some scripture with me this week and here's one of them:

"Don't worry about anything; instead pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all He has done. Then you will experience God's peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus...fix your thoughts on what is true, honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. Keep putting into practice all you learned from me- everything you heard from me and saw me doing. Then the God of peace will be with you." (Phil. 4:6-8, NLT). thx-Amanda :)


So, we started this process with some money in savings but not nearly enough! We are hoping and trusting in God to provide. If it is His will - He will:) Well, the past 2 days have been overwhelming - i am still in tears as i write this... First, our agency has been gracious and has had some favor with us due to the transition from one agency to the next (long story...) but none the less - we are so grateful to them. They are a wonderful caring and compassionate agency. Then, we have just received a generous gift this evening - we were amazed. It was a huge surprise and just felt that it was a God moment. Of course after we hugged and thanked them profusely - we also gave glory to God knowing that he is so gracious. What an awesome gift and the timing is/was perfect:)

However, we still have quite a bit to gather. So, if you know of anyone that would like a travel trailer or anything else in our basement storage room - let us know;) We are hoping to have a yard sale in March or April - i might try to auction something off here - and we might try to sell Krispy Kremes in May. Oh - if anyone is interested in donating money to bringing home Maylynn, we've just put a paypal link here - click on the lady bug:):)

I also hope that this posting is encouraging to others adopting:) I am studying 1 Peter at church and we are talking about him being an encourager - Don't loose hope or faith - keep praying and trusting in Him... Don't take your eyes off of Him like Peter did when he walked on the water - he looked down (doubt) and began to fall until Jesus reached out and lifted him up - Just like he's done with us this week...

Blessings to you...

Dossier off to be Certified...

We are becoming experts on how to use FedEx! And we aren't done yet!!!!!:):)

Our paperwork is off to Olympia to be certified. Which basically certifies that all of our notaries are ligit (and costs us approx. $200) :):) After they attach a special piece of paper to each and every document (13 of them) then they send them back to us so we can then send all of the docs (and more $$$) to San Francisco to be authenticated at the Chinese Consulate - Hopefully our papers will be back here by next week so we can send them to San Fran -

Please pray that they are certified with no problems and are returned quickly!