Saturday, April 27, 2013

Still waiting

Sorry I haven't updated my blog on our adoption but unfortunately there's not a lot to update! We're just waiting to travel for our 1st trip to meet our girls!!! So here's what's happened since our referral on March 18. We were submitted to court on March 26th. This is when all paperwork was submitted to court to begin the process of scheduling our preliminary hearing & our court date to travel. We found out on April 5th that our Preliminary Hearing is scheduled for May 31st. This is when they will review our children's files & officially deem them orphans so they can be adopted. If they knew who the parent's were they would come to this hearing as well as our in country director for West Sands. Since our girls were abandoned there are no parents to appear & our agency will not appear. We may or may not hear anything for a week or 2 after this hearing. MOWA (who is like our children's services) will review our file & issue their LETTER! This is what we want & we want it fast! This is the part I am nervous about. Due to Jeremy's heart condition I am worried they will have additional questions that will delay the process. I am PRAYING (and asking you too) that they will read it, see the Dr said he is fit to parent, sign off without a second thought & delay. Please pray for this!!! Once this letter is received they can issue OUR court date when we can travel & meet our girls!!! Based on recent timelines we should hopefully travel the end of June/beginning of July if there are no additional delays. That's still 2 months away for us to meet our girls! I CAN'T wait!!! We were originally planning to go the middle of May-middle of June at the latest so this is much longer than we planned. I know God has his perfect plan & I am TRYING to trust & be patient but it's so hard! It's unfortunately only going to get harder once we have met them & have to leave. Imagine giving birth to your child & then leaving them for 3-4 months! I don't think you COULD imagine that! I know they are taking great care of them there & the nannies love them but I am their mother & need to be with them! I will need lots of shoulders to cry on! Please bare with me during this time!!! We should hopefully be bringing them home in October.

As we wait we still have LOTS of money to raise! We have been truly blessed by everyone's generosity of donations & purchasing of fundraising items. I can't say thank you enough to everyone!!! God HAS provided & shown that there is no doubt HE is behind this adoption! We are still selling sheets! If you haven't gotten any of these, they are really amazing! I'm not just saying that so you buy some, they really are so much better than you can get for the price in the store! $35 for 1200-1800 thread count sheets. You won't find that. If you are local I am more than happy to let you see them! If you're not, just trust me!!! Check out our fundraising page for more details on these awesome sheets! As of right now we have raised a total of $29,998 out of $40,337 needed. We need an estimated $2,000 more before our 1st trip. I have no doubt that God will provide!!! If you think of it in sheets we need to sell 112 more sets to meet this goal. My former co-workers are having a yard sale for us during the Trenton Yard Sale at our house. Praying we raise a lot there! We are taking any donated items to sell!

We have also been blessed by several families in our Facebook group for adoptive families within our agency. I don't know what I would do without this group! I have had several families go over in the last month & send us pictures of our girls. These are PRICELESS for us to see now & also have later to show our girls when they get older. I hate that we have a million pictures of Jack daily for the first several months & am grateful to be getting these pictures of our girls to keep! Until we pass court we are not allowed to post these pictures online but we ARE allowed to show them to anyone so please ask when you see me & I will be more than happy to show them off!!! I can't until we get an update on their weights. I have no idea how big they are. I was told at the beginning of April that they were about the size of a newborn & they were 2 ½ months old at that time. Keep in mind they were 3 ½ lbs at birth so they have some catching up to do. They look very healthy. I have been told they have very good eye contact & are alert.

I think that's enough for today!

Thanks again to everyone for your love & support! Even if you haven't been able to give financially your prayers are much needed & appreciated!!!

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Haircut Fundraiser!

I had this posted on Facebook but forgot to post it on here. 

Tomorrow's the LAST Day!!!  Don't miss out on this deal & fundraiser!

Purchase a $40 gift card now for a haircut from Lisa Bentley from Salon Lofts to use in the next 3 months. 1/2 of the profit will go to us for our adoption. Regular price $45. Comment on here so I can keep track & send her a message to purchase or just send me an email if you don't have a way to contact her. She is located at 10002 Montgomery Rd Cincinnati Ohio 45242. You can also visit her Facebook fan page at Salon Bentley at Salon Lofts.