DADS AND GRADS

So it is with great pleasure I would like to celebrate two very special people in my life, our preschool graduate and her super Dad. M is the sweetest little 5 year old I know and R is the most wonderful 20-something(ha,not!) dude I could have ever imagined being the father to our girls. So without further ado, here they are:

OK, WE ARE REALLY "STARTING" TO GET EXCITED!

So we are now #5 and even my sweet Rob (who is always a bit more cautious than I) said, "Wow, I'm really getting excited!". It's still a ways off but we are really looking forward to meeting our son. I enjoy following along with my fellow adoption bloggers and cheering each other along. I guess we are all labor coaches for one another! Mary and Josh of Sheards on the Grow are visiting their son in Haiti as we speak and they will hopefully bring him home in the Fall. Our church collected 20 large cans of formula for them to bring to their orphanage! Cool!

MY PEOPLE CRACK ME UP!!

HERE IT IS, THANKS TO AMY!

So Amy of Our Family's Journey (click on link at the side of the blog) is the investigative blogging queen! She found the post that I spoke of previously, thanks so much Amy!

Here is the link:

http://www.theeyesofmyeyesareopened.blogspot.com/2008/05/thoughts-at-6-months-waiting.html

So because I am new to blogging or slightly computer dumb, I don't know how to have links within the text of my post. So if I wanted to reference someone's blog and then have people just click on their name and be directed to their blog...how do I do that?

GRIEF CYCLE?

I am looking for a really great post that I ran across the other day. It's a post about how adoption is similar to the Kubler-Ross model on the stages of grief. It is a VERY frank and thought provoking post. She is adopting as well and really struggled with the greater good of adoption. As in...if I was truly a humanitarian and if I truly cared for the orphans of world as God calls us to do...I would send the LARGE amount of money that I was spending on adoption directly to the children. Rather than spending all this money on bringing one of these precious children home, what about giving the money to multiple families so that they could actually keep their children? This is stuff that we have really stuggled with and this gal's post nailed it on the head. Obviously, we have chosen to adopt and I'm seriously not sure what to say about it! Except to say that we believe that making a huge difference in just ONE child's life is important as well. So, if anyone happened to see it let me know. I found it by blog surfing and simply cannot find my way back!

WE ARE NUMBER...WHICH IS REALLY NO SURPRISE!

So we are still tootin' along and enjoying the summer. And really sure that we won't be travelling to pick up our son this summer. Ethiopia closes their court system in August and September, with that info we will probably travel to pick up our son in November. We do not have a referral for a baby yet but probably within the next 2 months it seems reasonable. And then a nice long wait to get the courts open. Referrals continue to occur despite the court closure, so who knows maybe we will have a little guy soon! Meanwhile, I get to check in on (via the blog world) a lot of families that have brought their children home, what a treat! So excited for these families and children. But also praying for families waiting to bring home their kids. That's a tough one...being a parent to a child on another continent!

And please be in prayer for Ethiopia, my heart breaks thinking of all the pain and strife in this country.

JUST WANT TO SHARE....

As we look forward to our son joining our family and adding some male companionship for my husband...we still really enjoy having girls. They are so dang fun and cute!!! And speaking of adding our son to our clan, I believe we are now down to NUMBER SIX in the line up! Yea!!!!