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Sunday, January 31, 2010

Another Interview

Sometimes when our family coordinator comes over I wonder what she thinks of us as she leaves. I always say, she either loves us or thinks we are crazy; the verdict is still out. We have another inteview on Wednesday and we will have the rest of our paperwork done and be ready to turn in!!! So after Wednesday we will only have to wait for our homestudy to make it through all the clearances and then we will be pressing on with our Dossier. I am praying this all goes smoothly and we can make it through DCFS and immigration in a timely matter.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Another Step!

Yesterday we had our all day international adoption training class at the Baby Fold; it was kind of interesting to hear all about the particulars of the adoption process and some other new things I had not thought about. We got to meet another couple adopting from Ethiopia that lives here in town, so it is always nice to have another contact. I was really excited because we went ahead and made our next home visit appointments, which puts us one step closer to being done with our homestudy!!!

As I was reading America Worlds blog today they have changed the referral rate for boys to 3-6 months after dossier is submitted. That is even faster than it was a couple of months ago. It has been really cool to see how God moves around timelines!

Please keep praying for the Haitian people. We are praying that through all of us God is glorified and hearts our open. Also we are praying for Haitian adoption to someday open up. I have been waiting to see what God is going to do in Haiti, I know He has it all planned out!

Friday, January 15, 2010

Back to Normal

Everything is finally back to normal, well as normal as my house can get! After all of Tyler's media appearance (which I will never stop harrassing him for), and everyone getting home safe...the flu has made its way through our house. Last night both Ty and Griffin were sick! I am praying that I don't get it, because in the words of Tyler "Our world falls apart when I am sick."

It seems like everyday I am working on some part of our paperwork or getting something more to sign in the mail...does it ever end? Although, the more I do the more real it seems. I know we have a very long wait ahead, but just yesterday were all sitting together and Tyler made a comment about our little boy who was not here. Griffin said he is still in "opiapia" and I almost cried. I will tell you what I may not be pregnant, but sure cry like I am! We were talking about what it will be like to have 3 boys and I cried!! We try to talk about the baby everyday so Griffin can really understand what we are doing, but all he cares about is the fact that he will be getting a bunkbed to share with Drake.

Continue to pray for the Haitians!

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

PRAISE THE LORD!!!

We have received word that everyone is ok in Haiti!!! I cannot describe how nervous I was until I heard that. God is so good!!!! Please continue to pray until everyone makes is home. Tyler, Jim P., Jason, and Mark were already in the states when the earthquake hit so they will still be home on time. Thanks for those already praying!

Sunday, January 10, 2010

What a Sunday!

I don't have much news about our adoption to share, but it has been a very funny morning!

First both boys woke up at 5:45am! Anywho Griffin was being whining because it was so early so I told him he could not talk to me until the long hand (he is learning time) is on the 1, which would have been 6:05. He started screaming "just talk to me, mommy please!!!" so I could not help myself, I gave in. Some other random things happened making almost seem not worth to walk out the door...does anyone else ever have those kind of Sunday mornings? So we get to church and my sweet little Griffin says "you are the nictest mommy ever." Was he not at my house this morning; apparently it does not take much to be the nictest mommy ?

I finally make it into big church and enjoyed the worship and sermom (great job Joel Craig), but I missed the annnouncement saying if someone drives a green van you left your lights on you may want to get someone to jump you. So I carry on like any other morning carrying both boys, all coats, and a diaper bag to get our donuts. While I am buying the donuts Drake hits his head on the table, awesome! Then as I am talking Drake decides he has too much donut in his mouth and starts to spit it out!!! Brenda had to walk away, because it was so gross and now everyone is staring at me. I proceed to go to Brenda & Kristie and say " Do you ever look at me and wonder what was God thinking giving me children?" Graciously they both said no, but they have to I am their friend.

So that takes us to the van...I get into the van turn the key and nothing! The van is dead I left my lights on. Awesome, after some phone calls I get ahold of Lanphears and Craig comes to my rescue. But, Griffin overheard me ask if Craig could come jump my car...and starts freaking out, because he thinks jump it means the car is going to flying into the air with him in it. So after he finally calms down we get the van moving and we make it home. What an awesome morning!

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Great Interview

Well we meet our adoption coordinator today and she was so fun! I felt like I have know her for a long time! I am sure Ty and I were a lot to take in, but hopefully she liked us. We kept joking and saying "scratch that from the record" after we would say something funny/inapproriate:). Tyler told me I was little too excited and he is not sure who was sitting at the table with him, but if Jessica could show up next time that would be great. I am just really excited to be in this process that I could not stop talking, which for those of you who know me, does that really surprise anyone?

Things went really well, the only part that was a little discouraging was how it is taking to get background checks done in Springfield. She said right now it is taking about 90 day which is up from 2-4 weeks that is used to take. So if everything goes well we are looking at the very earliest of May with having our homestudy done.

Even though it was not as soon as I wanted I know God has our timeline. Actually just last night in our Adopted Baby prayer journal I prayed that I would follow God's timing and not try to run ahead of him. I have been trying to get everything done so fast and in my timing and today God slowed me down! And according to my husband I needed to slow down...I think I embarrased him!

On a random side note, we added two new couples to our small group tonight and it went really well. I am excited to see what God is going to with us!

Monday, January 4, 2010

Tomorrow's our first interview

Well, tomorrow we officially meet with the Baby Fold for our first interview. I am not sure what we are doing or how many visits we will have so I will have to wait and see! I think I have all of our paperwork done for our Homestudy, now hopefully we pass our background checks:).