Staying the course

Today, I mailed our immigration paperwork packet to Lewisville, TX. It will arrive by 10:30 Monday morning. This is the last piece we needed to travel to get our child. HOWEVER, getting it accomplished now does nothing to help us travel before the new entity reopens and that is likely to be in the fall.

Shawn and I have decided to stay the course and continue on as if the shut down/slow down were not happening. God has brought us this far, we will not quit on Him now.

Keep praying for everyone attempting to adopt right now. This is certainly a journey not meant for the timid :)

~Christie~

Crying in my Cheerios?

Nope, not gonna happen. I am not going to to do it. I've cried enough tears for another child this past week.

I will not cry over the delay.

I will not cry over Alexander waiting.

You know why? Because this is all part of God's bigger plan. I trust it. I know it.

This past week, God answered to HUGE prayers for me. In doing so, it broke my heart for another child, yet it has given me so much hope for the boy we want to bring home.

I've said before God has told us to wait at nearly every turn of this journey. I could blame the fiasco with the first agency---but it would do me no good. God protected us through that. I could blame the month long wait between our first meeting with the new agency and our social worker---but it would do me no good. God blessed us in the situation. We were given a wonderful social worker who turned out an APPROVED homestudy in A MONTH (23 days really). And during that wait, God showed me the angel that lead me to Alexander and has allowed me to share his story by pushing for others to tell it--I will tell his story when the time is right.

Shawn and I had decided we would wait for a definitive "answer" before filing our immigration paperwork. We aren't going to do that now. As soon as we have our finalized homestudy, I am mailing that application and I am gonna let God do His work.

I know where Alexander is right now (and it gives me much solace to know his location after many months of NOT KNOWING ANYTHING for certain). And we are praying God will let us bring him to our home forever---in His time and by His will.

Keep praying for everyone pushing to meet the SDA shutdown deadline. Pray for the families over there. Pray for the children who are waiting to come home and pray for the ones who simply won't live long enough to get rescued through this shut down. Keep praying for our family.

Thank you, thank you all.

~Christie~

A setback

We learned today that the country we are seeking to adopt from will be shutting down the adoption process temporarily. We hope to learn much needed information during this shut down and be ready to travel sometime by the end of this year. Pray for the families there now and those working feverishly to submit their dossiers.

Pray for the children in waiting. Pray this transition is fast and smooth.

Wanna get a Laptop for just 10 bucks????

Below is a post copied from my nettie bff, Julie. I am blessed to have been a part of their adoption story--see, I saw Peter (thru Patti's blog) and went crazy trying to email EVERYONE I knew (that was over 400 emails) in order to find his momma. I prayed so hard that night, I prayed and cried myself to sleep. I prayed he would find his family SOON. And soon it was, the very next morning there was a family ready to commit to him and I had no idea it would be Julie. NONE.

Once you read the details come back up here and click on this collage of Peter and it will take you to Julie's blog to donate for the giveaway.

Here are the details of the giveaway:

Dell Inspiron 15R Laptop giveaway

A $10 donation = 1 option. Every $10 is another option.

If you donate for up to 3 options ($30), then you get one free option by reposting/blogging/twittering our giveaway.

If you donate for 3 options ($30) or more, then you can get 3 more freebie options by reposting/blogging/twittering the giveaway on 3 different sites.

So either 1 freebie or 3 freebies.


The fundraiser will run until July 5th, 2011. Random.org will choose the recipient of the laptop and it will be posted on Julie's blog on July 6th and then the laptop will be sent to the lucky person. Julie has already purchased the laptop and it is in Julie's possession in original packaging.