Happy New Year!

Well, the new year is upon us and I am very excited to see what this year will bring us!  We received approval on our initial application in December...YAY!!!  Praise the Lord!  We were confident we would be approved, it was just the waiting that was hard.  However, keeping busy helped us not dwell on what we were waiting for! 

We celebrated Chey's 13th birthday and she had a good time.  We had cake and ice cream with her friends from church and she had a couple of friends stay overnight.  They had fun playing her new Wii Just Dance game.  It was quite entertaining to watch actually. 

Anyhow, when we originally talked about adoption we really just wanted a son.  Now my heart is heavy because I know I would be happy with a son or a daughter.  If we were pregnant we wouldn't be able to decide anyway, so I am just feeling like we should open our hearts to either sex.  Roger and I have been talking about it, and even though we would love to have a son...we agreed to submit our formal application for either sex!   AAAHHHH.....whew....I had to get that out!  We submitted our formal application today too. We should know if it is approved within 24 hours. 

We also decided that we definitely want to adopt more than one child.  Not all at one time, but over the course of a few years.  I can't help but think...am I crazy!?  I am 37 and Roger is 44.....but it feels so right.  God's sweet whispers have been ever present encouraging us to keep going with his plan.  I am not going to say that it doesn't ever seem intimidating, or scary, but I just remember all of the amazing things that God has done and continues to do in our lives.  He has been faithful, and he will be faithful again.  I felt a little anxious/overwhelmed when we submitted our formal application.  Not sure why....I think it is because you have to tell all your financial info, family info(our parents/siblings/kids), previous marriages, past employment.....It was a little intimidating.  So I called upon my father....

 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:11-13

Dear Heavenly Father, your word reassures me of your presence and confirms that you are always by my side.  Your perfect love casts out my fear.  I thank you for the peace that only you can give.  In Jesus precious name, Amen.