FRIDAY, MAY 26, 2006 09:00 PM
Tomorrow morning we leave for New York, where we will meet with the birth-mother who is interested in us for the possibility of adopting her unborn baby. We have been praying for wisdom and guidance about our meeting with her, but being human we must confess that we are feeling a bit overwhelmed and nervous (good reasons to turn to the Lord in prayer even more). The reason being that we already made a decision and committed to adopt our 3 little girls from Colombia (and we have no doubt), but feel it's only wise to go ahead and meet this birth-mother, so that years down the road we will never have any regrets!!!
We will definitely update y'all on the outcome of the meeting upon our return!
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SUNDAY, MAY 21, 2006 07:14 PM
Hello!
"In all things give thanks right"?
Yesterday, as we were working hard cleaning and preparing the house from top to bottom for our "home inspection" meeting with the Home-Study Social-Worker today, we couldn't figure out why we couldn't flush the toilets, later to find out that our septic system was completely backed up (hey give us a break, now that we're country bumpkins, it's still taking us a while to get used to a septic system & well-water). We had to call a bunch of places to get someone to come out and clean it before the meeting and then we ended up also having to call a plumber to clean out and flush the pipes, perfect timing huh??? Thankfully, it all worked out and got accomplished exactly 2 hours before the Social-Worker came over (and she never even used the bathroom after all but hey, at least our home passed the inspection)! :>)
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FRIDAY, MAY 19, 2006 09:43 PM
Today we had our "Psychological Evaluation" with the PHD, It was pretty intense questioning and then a "personality assessment" test. Boy oh boy, if everyone who has kids had to go through all the requirements that we are having to go through in order to adopt these kids, maybe the world would be a different place huh?
We do appreciate the preparation though, it's making us finally "grow up" pretty fast (we hope)! :>)
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SUNDAY, MAY 14, 2006 05:28 PM
Happy Mother's Day!!!
I (Sharon) must confess that this holiday had started to become a hard one for me in the past few years, but today Michael and I had so much fun celebrating my future "Motherhood" by going shopping for a few outfits for the girls. We were informed that when we first meet them, they will come to us with absolutely nothing else but the clothes on their little bodies. We both cried when we found this out, it just showed us that no matter what we think we have or don't have, we really just take so much for granted!
We thought of the song: "Just as I am without one plea", yes, He cares for the birds in the skies and the lilies in the field, how much more for those little ones"!!! We also read an awesome article today featured on the cover of The Oakland Press newspaper (about a family that went from zero to 5 children): http://www.theoaklandpress.com/stories/051406/loc_2006051402.shtml
Friday, May 26, 2006
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