NO WAY!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe it! Ken woke me up this morning at 5:00 and I felt like the pressure in my head and face was going to make my head explode!!! I feel like poop!! Ok, not sure why we use that phrase, LOL, cause I am certain that poop doesn't feel anything!! But I feel really yuckie and poop is really yuckie so I guess that is the connection! I am rambeling and can't even stop myself! Anyway, my sinuses are killing me, I have a runny nose, I can't stop sneezing and my eyes are puffy. Oh, and I can't stop whinning, can't you tell! :) The worst thing about it is that I can't take anything for it. Any type of medicine that would give me some relief makes me feel worse. I am not sure if any of you out there can relate, but when I take any kind of sinus medicine or cold medicine I get EXTREMELY aggitated, all I want to do is sleep but can't because my insides feel like they are going to vibrate out of my body and my mind races!! I am really not sure which is worse right now, that's how bad I feel!!!! I have so much laundry and housework to do before I leave tomorrow for the women's retreat and I am moving like a snail! Plus I am sitting here typing when I should be cleaning. OOOOPS!!!!! Well, I really should go and try to accomplish something before I take the girls to track! Thanks for letting me go on and on and on!! :)
Grace & Peace

P.S. If anyone gets the book I talked about below and reads it, would you let me know what your take on it is. I'm excited to hear how the Lord worked in the lives of those who do read it!!!

WHAT A DAY!!!

Today was a busy but really good day! The girls and I picked up JW and we went to lunch with my mother and father-in-law. Then we went to pick up our completed physicals that were noterized!!!! YAY!!! Then we took JW to his oral surgeon appointment. Poor guy has to have all 4 of his wisdom teeth surgically removed. I feel so bad for him! I told him that it is so much better to get them all done at once so you don't have to go through it ever again! Then we picked Ashley up from track, went to Target, then to Wallie World and finally home. We left the house at 10:30 am and didn't get home until around 7:45 pm. UNBELIEVABLE!!!! LOL!! I can't wait for our church women's reteat this Thursday!!! It's from Thursday to Saturday. I am sooooooo looking forward to time alone with the Lord. Some much needed, uninterupted, time with the Lord!! One a totally different subject, please keep the people in China in your prayers!! It is so heart breaking! My heart's prayer is that the hearts of the Chinese would be opened to God. That Christians would be able to share with the hurting the love of Jesus. I pray that many will be saved through this. Oh, I wanted to share an amazing book with you that I am reading, (for the 3rd time), 'Created To Be His Help Meet' by Debi Pearl. If you are married or prepairing to be married, PLEASE read this book. I wish I would have read it before I was I married! I have read so many books on marriage and heard many sermons about my role as a wife but I have NEVER heard it put the way Debi has. The Lord has blessed her with great wisdom and she is so kind to share it with us that want a "heavenly marriage". You can find her book at www.nogreaterjoy.org. I truely believe you and your family would be blessed if you read it!! Mine and so many other women that I have given the book to have been greatly blessed! Well, it is terribly late and I really need to go to bed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God Bless You!

God is so good!

Yes, I know it has been forever!! Sorry! :)

Hello everyone! I am so sorry it has taken me soooooooooooo long to do a post!! We have been so busy! At the beginning of our paper chase we had to do 4 classes for the Hague thing, and now that we are going on the waiting child list, we had to do 3 more classes, read a book and write a summary. Oh, and one of the 4 classes that we hadn't finished in the beginning had homework with it, about 45 pages of homework! So I haven't felt much like being on the computer to blog. Oh wait, did I mention that all this needed to be done before our social worker could finish writing our home study? She also can't finish it until she meets face to face with one of our references and she gets a copy of our physicals. We had our physicals done once but they are expired and now we have to do it all over again on the 30th. I pray we get our rough draft shortly after that!!!!!!!!!!!! After that is all said and done, all that will be left is our I-171H. I think! I went to several websites looking for packing lists the other night and kept coping and pasting things I wanted to remember and ended up with 17 pages of things. OOOPS!!!! :) So went through all of them and made out a list for us. If anyone has any good advise or a packing list they wouldn't mind sharing, please email me at firstsugarbear74@yahoo.com
For those of you that have my other email address, don't panic, you have the right one, I use this one for other things. Our agency has a list of babies they received from the CCAA on the waiting child list and I would really love it if Hope would be on that list but I am not getting my hopes up too high! I don't think that is very realistic to be thinking she is but God has worked bigger miracles than that in our lives so I wouldn't be completely shocked if she was! I just keep reminding myself that God sees the big picture that I have no clue of and that He knows the exact moment Hope will be placed in my arms. Wow, for the first time in a REALLY LONG time can I say that with complete peace! And also find joy in knowing that He is in control and not me!!!! Thank you Lord!!!! Ok, I think I have went on long enough. I don't think there is any other news. I would be grateful if you would keep us in your prayers about our family trusting the Lord COMPLETELY during this process. And that I would not be so easily distracted by the world and would keep my eyes on my Savior!!
Grace & Peace to you all!!

Our Friend's Website

I just recieved an email with our friend's website address that is answering the call to adopt their little girl from Ethiopia!! Please visit them and encourage them on their journey! Most importantly, please keep them in your prayers!!! www.bringmimihome.com Jason & Patti if you are reading this... I am so happy for you guys and can't wait to meet MiMi! Remember to let the Lord be your strength in the times that you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel! Love Ya!!

True So True!

Yes I am coping off of my dearest friend, Tonya!! I have seen this before when I didn't have a blog, but now I do. I had forgotten all about it. Thanks Tonya!! ;)

You know you're an adoptive parent (or should be) if:

1. The fact that there are 143 million children without a parent to kiss them goodnight has made you lose sleep.

2. You realize DNA has nothing to do with love and family.

3. You can't watch Adoption Stories on TLC without sobbing.

4. The fact that, if 7% of Christians adopted 1 child there would be no orphans in the world, is convicting to you.

5. You spend free time surfing blogs about families who have experienced the blessing of adoption.

6. It drives you crazy when people ask you about adopted child's "real" parents.

7. You have ever been "pregnant" with your adoptive child longer than it takes an elephant to give birth.(2 years!)

8. You had no idea how you would afford to adopt but stepped out in faith anyway, knowing where God calls you He will provide.

9. You have ever taken an airplane ride half-way around the world with a child you just met.

10. You believe God's heart is for adoption.

11. You realize that welcoming a child into your heart and family is one of the most important legacies you could ever leave on this earth.

12. You know what the word "Dossier" means, and you can actually pronounce it!

13. You have welcomed a social worker into the most private parts of your life.

14. You shudder when people say your child is so lucky that you adopted them, knowing full well you are the blessed one to have him or her in your life

Wonderful News

I just recieved wonderful news from a dear sister in the Lord! Her and her family have been lead by the Lord to adopt from Ethiopia! I am sooooooo excited for them!!! It is so amazing to be able to witness the Lord's hand in people's lives! I am so blessed! So, they submitted their application to America World Adoption Agency and are waiting to hear if they are approved. They should hear something by the end of next week or the first of the following week. Please keep them in your prayers!! You know that the enemy is not going to like this at all and he is not going to stop trying to cloud their path.