A lot of people have been asking lately where were are at on our adoption journey and how things are going, I love this! I love that people are genuinely interested. My heart is full!
It has been a tough couple of weeks in our family. As many of you know, my step-dad passed away at the end of last month (Jan 28th.) Though he had been battling cancer, he was doing fairly well and his passing was an incredible shock. I spent a couple days in a stage of disbelief trying to come to terms with the fact that he was actually gone; that he wouldn't be walking in the door or he wouldn't be making wise-cracks or laughing his contagious laugh. Derek, Griffin and I boarded a train and took the long ride out to WA to be with my family for a week, to remember and to celebrate Scott. Our church was so kind and helped make it possible financially for the three of us to go. As much as I don't recommend taking a baby on a long train ride, the trip out and back was rather uneventful. We had an awesome celebration in honor of Scott and spent quite a lot of time healing. However I know that there will be hard days still yet to come. Please keep us in your prayers as we continue to heal.
While we were helping plan the celebration and trying to be support for my mom, I felt like I needed to do something productive for our little boy who is waiting. So we went and got certified copies of our marriage certificate while we were running other errands. That small act felt huge, I felt like something in life was going in the right direction because everything else felt so wrong. Sometimes this adoption process feels like nothing is happening; that things are moving far too slowly, but then I remember that God is in control and he knows the timing of everything.
Right now we have nothing new to report. We are still waiting on a couple things to officially start our home study. Things are taking a little longer than normal and we aren't 100% sure why this is happening. We got news last week that we need to HURRY and that we may lose the little guy to a family in country (this is a devastating reality and one of the hard parts of adoption. There are no guarantees.) We are moving as fast as we can at this point, and we are trusting in God's awesome plan that he will lead us as long as we choose to keep following.
Its been incredible to see God forming friendships through this adoption. It has been a deep longing of my heart to make more friends, as most of my friends don't live near me. My social heart was aching for friends and boy does God provide! Not only did a friend set up a sewing night for our fundraiser (COMING SOON to FACEBOOK) but one of my other friends who is adopting came over to show me some paperwork and we ended up just sharing life for like 4 hours!! I cannot even imagine what this journey would look like without these people and so many more showing support for us.
TODAY we are launching a shirt campaign! Our minimum selling goal is 25 shirts (the number that has to be met before they will be printed) but in my heart I would love to see that number BLOWN out of the water. So we are having a competition! If you want to win, all you have to do is share our fundraiser with anybody and everyone you can think of and convince them to get shirts! When you get the shirts, take a group picture wearing the shirts. The person who organizes the biggest team picture will win a $ 50 Amazon gift card! Lets say you share with friends who are far away from you and they can't make it in the picture. If they take a selfie and hold a paper saying "Team (insert name) " they will be counted in the number of people in your group picture! Does that make sense?! I hope so!
Here is the link :) https://www.bonfirefunds.com/bring-henry-home
