Thursday, January 26, 2012
A beautiful poem that I had to share!
Someone that I've known for many years shared this picture with me. She actually designed it for the Agency we are doing our Home Study with here in town. The poem and precious picture brought tears to my eyes. She said she wanted to share it with me because she created it after reading my blog. I asked her permission to share this with you. :)
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Praise Report
We did have to redo all of the questionnaires, autobiographies, and essay questions for our Home Study. Nathan and I each took a day and locked ourselves up in the bedroom to complete them.
We've officially submitted everything we needed to begin our home study! A big shout out to "the big guy upstairs"! We wrote our $1600 check for our home study. Our God is faithful to supply us with the funds to do what he has called us to!!
Up until this point we haven't done any fund raisers and had very few donations. (We are grateful for the couple we've had!) This next phase we will have to come up with a lot more money so we've begun to pray over some fundraising ideas and ways that we can come up with the extra money. It can be easy to look at a large sum and wonder how it will all come together, but we KNOW this adoption will come to pass!
If you feel led to donate money you can do so by clicking on the PayPal link on the side of this blog or by sending it to us in the mail. If you'd like to do it that way, email me for our mailing address at jennifergamble777@yahoo.com Thank you all for your continued love and support. Thank you for your prayers for us, our son, and this process.
We've officially submitted everything we needed to begin our home study! A big shout out to "the big guy upstairs"! We wrote our $1600 check for our home study. Our God is faithful to supply us with the funds to do what he has called us to!!
Up until this point we haven't done any fund raisers and had very few donations. (We are grateful for the couple we've had!) This next phase we will have to come up with a lot more money so we've begun to pray over some fundraising ideas and ways that we can come up with the extra money. It can be easy to look at a large sum and wonder how it will all come together, but we KNOW this adoption will come to pass!
If you feel led to donate money you can do so by clicking on the PayPal link on the side of this blog or by sending it to us in the mail. If you'd like to do it that way, email me for our mailing address at jennifergamble777@yahoo.com Thank you all for your continued love and support. Thank you for your prayers for us, our son, and this process.
Letter #2
Dear Son,
I'm going to save these letters for you in a book one day. I am making scrapbooks for your sister and brother that include my pregnancies and their first year. I've thought about how you might feel left out because you wont have one of those. I am going to make you one too. I will include each letter I write before we bring you home, pictures along the way, and whatever else the Lord lays on my heart.
I think about you every day. I've had dreams of you. I pray over you. My love for you is growing each day as we go through our adoption journey. Sometimes it gets hard trying to go through all the steps we have to take until you are ours, but I always think of how amazing it will feel that amazing day when our agency calls and we see your picture for the first time. I've dreamed of what I think you'll look like and even be wearing and I can't wait to see if I'm right. My heart aches to have you home with us.
Your daddy melts my heart when he talks about "his boys" or "our sons". He says he can't wait to take you to tractor auctions when you're older and he's been getting more excited about moving along in this process.
Addison asks about all the time. She told me yesterday, "Mommy it is taking waaaay too long to get my new brother!" She says she hopes you're old enough to play with her and talk to her like a big boy. She said it's ok if you don't know how to speak English because we can teach you. :) Addison is very excited to ride with you on an airplane! (We are all excited about that because when that happens it means we are bringing you home.)
As your brother gets older, your daddy and I keep wondering if you'll be older than him or younger. No matter what your age, you'll be perfect to us! I know that Weston doesn't really understand yet but we are sure he will love having a brother.
Sometimes it's hard for mommy knowing you're out there. I pray each day that you're being loved on. I pray that somehow God brings godly women into your life to take care of you until I can. I pray that this doesn't take too long before we get to bring you home. I can't wait to hear you laugh and see you smile. I'm excited to watch you experience new things and play with your brother and sister. I love you so much already son!
Dreaming of you until we meet,
Your mommy
I'm going to save these letters for you in a book one day. I am making scrapbooks for your sister and brother that include my pregnancies and their first year. I've thought about how you might feel left out because you wont have one of those. I am going to make you one too. I will include each letter I write before we bring you home, pictures along the way, and whatever else the Lord lays on my heart.
I think about you every day. I've had dreams of you. I pray over you. My love for you is growing each day as we go through our adoption journey. Sometimes it gets hard trying to go through all the steps we have to take until you are ours, but I always think of how amazing it will feel that amazing day when our agency calls and we see your picture for the first time. I've dreamed of what I think you'll look like and even be wearing and I can't wait to see if I'm right. My heart aches to have you home with us.
Your daddy melts my heart when he talks about "his boys" or "our sons". He says he can't wait to take you to tractor auctions when you're older and he's been getting more excited about moving along in this process.
Addison asks about all the time. She told me yesterday, "Mommy it is taking waaaay too long to get my new brother!" She says she hopes you're old enough to play with her and talk to her like a big boy. She said it's ok if you don't know how to speak English because we can teach you. :) Addison is very excited to ride with you on an airplane! (We are all excited about that because when that happens it means we are bringing you home.)
As your brother gets older, your daddy and I keep wondering if you'll be older than him or younger. No matter what your age, you'll be perfect to us! I know that Weston doesn't really understand yet but we are sure he will love having a brother.
Sometimes it's hard for mommy knowing you're out there. I pray each day that you're being loved on. I pray that somehow God brings godly women into your life to take care of you until I can. I pray that this doesn't take too long before we get to bring you home. I can't wait to hear you laugh and see you smile. I'm excited to watch you experience new things and play with your brother and sister. I love you so much already son!
Dreaming of you until we meet,
Your mommy
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Tiny Update
Not too much to report. Starting our adoption process right before all the holidays ended up making for a sloooow start. Now that Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years are all behind us, we are ready to hit the ground running!
*I mailed off mine and Nathan's finger print cards that we had done at the local sheriff's office. (interesting experience for me. haha)
*Scheduled our first meeting of three with a psychologist. It is scheduled for Feb 20th but they said they would call if something came up before then.
*My passport came in!! Nathan already had his from our honeymoon but I needed a new one with my married name.
*Finally got all labs and paperwork back from all 4 physicals. (The children also had to get physicals.)
Other than that, we don't have much to report. Nathan's computer crashed before Christmas which had all of our surveys, questionares, and autobiographies that we needed to be assigned our social worker for the homes study. It is still being worked on and we hope to have all the files recovered by the end of the week so we can turn them in. I'm also beginning to work through the list of building our Dossier file.
Thank you for your continued prayers!!
*I mailed off mine and Nathan's finger print cards that we had done at the local sheriff's office. (interesting experience for me. haha)
*Scheduled our first meeting of three with a psychologist. It is scheduled for Feb 20th but they said they would call if something came up before then.
*My passport came in!! Nathan already had his from our honeymoon but I needed a new one with my married name.
*Finally got all labs and paperwork back from all 4 physicals. (The children also had to get physicals.)
Other than that, we don't have much to report. Nathan's computer crashed before Christmas which had all of our surveys, questionares, and autobiographies that we needed to be assigned our social worker for the homes study. It is still being worked on and we hope to have all the files recovered by the end of the week so we can turn them in. I'm also beginning to work through the list of building our Dossier file.
Thank you for your continued prayers!!
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