Well I can not believe I have to say it once again... it has been too long since I posted. Life has a way of just getting busy. I have been learning that too busy of a life is not good. First, I know I have to make time for Kingdom stuff. My God loves His time with me and I have to make time to be with Him. When this happens there is nothing better and no better place to be! The next place I need to stop being so busy is the day to day stuff. I need to learn to just be with the family. The laundry and dishes can wait! When I just spend time with them it is so awesome. ( I am in the process of learning some video games, ie: kids dance and smash brothers) What a fun time for all of us. It brings me such joy to watch them all together. Which brings me to the last thing keeping me busy... This has to come with an announcement for everyone. Why you ask, because we have been a little more quiet about this. Here it comes...
We are in the process of adopting again. There I said it. This time around we thought that being a"pro" (ha ha) things would go more quickly. Enter God's timing. I know every delay works out in the end but it does not help with the frustration now. We have had problems with all different paper work. We are sending in the I600A this week, yes another step closer to an even longer wait! I know God knows who and when, I just need to trust! The next big step is getting the rest of the money for the Dossier. We have about half of it. We were counting on the tax refund but that is not happening, yet! The government sent us Emenet's COC with the wrong birth date (back in November 2010) We have been waiting on the COC to send an updated one and get her SS# to get the taxes filed. After many delays and bad promises we filed our taxes with out claiming her and will have to amend it later. I know God has it all planned and I have to trust. Here we go again.......
I hope you all enjoy the pictures. We just celebrated our two year anniversary with Emenet. We are blessed beyond words with our sweet girl. She brings such joy to everyone she meets. I can not imagine life with out her! Thank you Jesus for your faithfulness! Till next time.....
yay! This is awesome. SO, are you going with Ethiopia again? Through AWAA? Can't wait to hear the details.
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