Can you really just be 6 months from becoming a teenager?
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Silence
It has been awfully quiet at our house this week. No news from China! Every morning I wake up wondering if today is the day we will hear. As the morning continues, I get a little more anxious trying to busy myself and not think about the phone ringing. Once afternoon hits and I realize that the office is going to be closing on the East coast, I take a deep breath and check my emails to see if an email has been posted saying that AWAA has received referral acceptances without ours included. Once I see that they did not receive any referral acceptances, I breathe a sigh of relief for the rest of the day. The next morning I start the whole process over again. This has been a hard week. Each day drastically reduces our chance of traveling in May.
God has been speaking to me very clearly. He is saying, "I am in control. Do you trust me?". Each day, or each moment this week, I have needed to give this situation to God and leave it with him. I don't know why China has not told us that we can come and bring Ming home. I may never know why it has taken so long to get our approval but I know God is in control. And I am thankful.
God has been speaking to me very clearly. He is saying, "I am in control. Do you trust me?". Each day, or each moment this week, I have needed to give this situation to God and leave it with him. I don't know why China has not told us that we can come and bring Ming home. I may never know why it has taken so long to get our approval but I know God is in control. And I am thankful.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Prayer Warriors Needed!
I spoke with our agency today about the possibility of traveling to China in May. Melissa, our family coordinator, thinks that if we receive our Referral Acceptance from China next week, we hopefully could still pull off traveling in May. If we don't receive it next week, we would have to put our trip off until July because of Jay's mission trip to Burkina Faso, Africa in June. Our agency really thinks that we should be receiving our Referral Approval any day now.
We need your prayers! Please pray that China finishes up our official approval to adopt Ming and sends it to our agency this week. We need your bold prayers! We know that God is in charge of all the details and will make this happen if it is His will that we travel to China in May to bring Ming home.
Thanks for your prayers for our travel situation and for Ming.
We need your prayers! Please pray that China finishes up our official approval to adopt Ming and sends it to our agency this week. We need your bold prayers! We know that God is in charge of all the details and will make this happen if it is His will that we travel to China in May to bring Ming home.
Thanks for your prayers for our travel situation and for Ming.
Friday, April 4, 2008
No word yet from China
Today it has been 2 months since our dossier was logged into China. Our agency, America World, received a batch of
Referral Acceptances today and unfortunately ours was not in the batch. It is so very hard to wait. We are really praying to travel in May but I'm fearful that won't be possible.
It is so hard not knowing about Ming’s surroundings and if he is happy there or wishing for adoption. We were told that he was asked if he wanted to be adopted a few years ago and said yes but I do not know if this is true or if he wishes to be adopted. I don’t hear about too many adoptions from his orphanage so I don’t know if adoption is common among his friends. I do know that we are so ready to bring him home!
Please continue to pray for Ming - for his protection, his health, his care, and that he will accept the news of his adoption.
Please also pray that we hear soon from China so we can bring Ming home.
Referral Acceptances today and unfortunately ours was not in the batch. It is so very hard to wait. We are really praying to travel in May but I'm fearful that won't be possible.
It is so hard not knowing about Ming’s surroundings and if he is happy there or wishing for adoption. We were told that he was asked if he wanted to be adopted a few years ago and said yes but I do not know if this is true or if he wishes to be adopted. I don’t hear about too many adoptions from his orphanage so I don’t know if adoption is common among his friends. I do know that we are so ready to bring him home!
Please continue to pray for Ming - for his protection, his health, his care, and that he will accept the news of his adoption.
Please also pray that we hear soon from China so we can bring Ming home.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
JESSE IS 14!
Today is Jesse's 14th birthday! It doesn't seem possible that he is 14. It seems like just yesterday he was 2 years old running around with his cute little glasses on saying, "great job Mom, great job!"
We had a fun day celebrating starting with a family breakfast, lunch out with mom, special birthday dinner and cake, and presents. Jesse is looking forward to a party with his friends on Friday.
We had a fun day celebrating starting with a family breakfast, lunch out with mom, special birthday dinner and cake, and presents. Jesse is looking forward to a party with his friends on Friday.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Happy Half Birthday Ming!
Today Ming is 12 1/2! I wonder if he has any idea that today is his half birthday. In true Bowser fashion, we celebrated with a special dinner and a half of a cake. Since Ming isn't here to pick his dinner, we thought we would celebrate at our favorite chinese restaurant, The Tree Cafe. We have established a relationship with the owner and her daughter who have moved here from China. They helped us during Jamae's adoption when we needed help understanding some of her paperwork which was in Chinese.
Today the daughter, Leanne, offered to translate a letter we wrote to Ming explaining to him about how we want to adopt him to become our son. One of the most important letters we have ever written and he will ever receive. We will be sending him the letter with a package we have put together as soon as China gives us our Referral Acceptance. This is the next step of our adoption. We have been waiting for this since our dossier was logged into China which was February 4. (Really we have been waiting since September when we committed to adopting him but China works from the day our dossier is logged in.) We have been told that the average wait for this step is 2-3 months from log in date - we have been waiting 6 1/2 weeks so far.
After we got home from the restaurant, we continued the celebration with half a cake.
Happy 12 1/2 birthday Ming! We pray it's not many more days before we can bring you home.
Today the daughter, Leanne, offered to translate a letter we wrote to Ming explaining to him about how we want to adopt him to become our son. One of the most important letters we have ever written and he will ever receive. We will be sending him the letter with a package we have put together as soon as China gives us our Referral Acceptance. This is the next step of our adoption. We have been waiting for this since our dossier was logged into China which was February 4. (Really we have been waiting since September when we committed to adopting him but China works from the day our dossier is logged in.) We have been told that the average wait for this step is 2-3 months from log in date - we have been waiting 6 1/2 weeks so far.
After we got home from the restaurant, we continued the celebration with half a cake.
Happy 12 1/2 birthday Ming! We pray it's not many more days before we can bring you home.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
The Wiz of the West
This week Madison had the opportunity to be part of a Community Theater Production called "The Wiz of the West".
Missoula Children's Theater came to town to put on the play in one week. Monday afternoon, 80 children came out to audition for 50 parts. Madison received the part of a Buzzard. Practices followed each afternoon and evening that week and on Saturday they gave two fantastic performances. It was so much fun to see Madison on stage. She's a natural.
Missoula Children's Theater came to town to put on the play in one week. Monday afternoon, 80 children came out to audition for 50 parts. Madison received the part of a Buzzard. Practices followed each afternoon and evening that week and on Saturday they gave two fantastic performances. It was so much fun to see Madison on stage. She's a natural.
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