LOST TIME

I can not believe I have not posted in 8 days ???

It has been really busy around here, trying to get
bills prepaid (post date everything)
child care is all worked out (hopefully)
Christmas decorations up
Some Christmas shopping done  (ya, right)
food shopping done, etc. Maybe I am doing to much
to make it easier for my oldest daughter to stay with
her siblings (hopefully she will do it again) I love my
children and it is very hard to leave them anywhere or
with anyone. Praying that this will grow me and our children,
It is growing our family !

In 40 hours we are leaving to meet our newest daughter,
And I am still in awe of everything !  Amazing God we have.

When I got home from my colonyucky yesterday I told my husband
"great news, we can adopt again.    No colon cancer !!!!!!

THANKSGIVING

 Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise:
give thanks to him and praise his name.  For the Lord is good
and his love endures forever: his faithfulness continues through
all generations.    Psalms 100:4-5

There is sooo much that I am thankful for...
Our Heavenly Father who is forever faithful,
My husband, our children, our parents,
our siblings, and I could go on forever.   Sincerely thankful.

Nathan turned 12 yesterday, WOW that went by fast.
Taking time to see a Christmas parade with the kids on Saturday
and then possibly a tree lighting. I am glad that we will not
totally miss all the Christmas events.



 

CLOUD 9

I am so bubbly inside, still in AWE, and praising GOD for another opportunity
to bring another blessings into our family !

Last night we attended The Root Cellar Fundraiser here in Portland, Maine.
Totally enjoyed the Pihcintu Choir and the Royal Burindi Drum Ensemble.
Ran into some friends and caught up with them.

On the way home I was thinking this has been an awesome year.
Enjoyed a lot of  fun things with the kids this year. We missed Dad when he was
gone on trips but skyped with him daily.
We have had so many opportunities  to help other people by volunteering at
concerts for Compassion International and Showhope and enjoying
an Steven Curtis Chapman concert here in OOB, Maine. Sooo  blessed !!
The best part is going to India to bring our daughter home !

I dream about adopting children until our quiver is full.
I have faith that God will make the money available.
As I learn our agency (home study) has given up their Hague Accreditation
I am now wondering direction but I guess I will not find out until  2013.

Just excited to be going to India soon !

WAITING ........

Well, tickets are purchased, hotels are picked, appointments are made.
youngest son will be 12 next week, so a birthday party!
Then  time to enjoy Thanksgiving with the family.
And then a pretty busy weeks before we travel.

I am sooo excited to finally meet our beautiful daughter !!
I am also excited to go back to India.

I just do not know what to say, just in AWE
Feel like a little kid waiting for something BIG !!

PASSPORT !!!

Hope's passport has arrived in her country.
now we will make our plans to go bring her home !!
I am so excited, can not wait to meet her.

Today is my last class for DSP.

WHAT TO DO ??

confused, frustrated....Still waiting for Hopes passport !!!
Our Indian program worker wanted to know our Tentative
travel dates ????    Tickets to travel 7 - 14 days after purchase from
Boston, Mass to Mumbai, then Mumbai to new Delhi, then New Delhi
back to  Boston, Mass is the price we paid for half this adoption..
crazy, crazy, crazy.................
We were thinking maybe the beginning of December we would travel ??
now we find out that her passport SHOULD be there in 14 days.
( I know of another family that waited another 2 weeks after SHOULD)
Funny 14 days puts at Thanksgiving day and I am sure our agency
will be closed that day and the next day so maybe on Nov.26 or 27th
we might find out...

We really should wait until her passport arrives at the RIPA before
purchasing tickets.   Maybe we will travel in 2013.

VOTE

The calls "please vote for me", everywhere on the t.v, the internet,
newspapers, etc. I dislike voting years because the news media,
the ads on tv.. cutting the other person down.....exhausting !!!

Then Tuesday (voting day) I start getting calls, "have you voted ?
"who  or what did you vote for" ?!?!    seriously !!!

This morning I got up to  find that President Obama was voted
into office again (ok) then I find out that Maine passed same sex
marriage (ouch!)




I just now realized I never went back and finished my post, ha, ha

ORPHAN SUNDAY

 In my DSP class we watched a film on how disabled children/people
were sent to institutions to live out their lives (right here in America).
It was something that was not talked about, a family secret.
I began to silently cry because they were showing children/people with 
no clothes on, sitting in their own feces, they did not know how to feed 
them selves, they had no one to hold them, tell them they are loved, they
did not get the medication they needed or therapies they needed,No school, etc.
As I sat there and watched in horror I was thanking GOD that we do not
do that anymore here in America, there is help out there for families now.
But I started to cry again when I realized that is how children with disabilities
 are treated in other countries, they go to orphanages or institutions.



Proverbs 24:12 tells us, "Once our eyes are opened we cannot pretend we do not know what to do. God, who weighs our hearts and keeps our souls knows we know and holds us responsible to act."

"My friends, adoption is redemption.  It's costly , exhausting, expensive, and outrageous.  Buying back lives costs so much.  When God set out to redeem us, it killed Him."

~Derek Loux

 

 

 

 

 

HALO-WEEN

Children get excited to dress up but mostly FREE
candy (expensive this year!) The excitement is the candy !

Walked Rohana to her class room yesterday and when she saw one
of her teachers with a clown mask on she was not going into that classroom !
After dinner Nathan wanted to go trick or treating so I got Rohana ready to go also.
She had her princess crown and her magic wand.  I put her in the stroller
because she does not like walking a long distance. She did not want to say
 "trick or treat", she was not very friendly to anyone who spoke to her.
She did not want to walk up any stairs. twords the end she started to say
" thank you" and "have fun".
I struggle thru Halloween for my children. This year I am thinking about
the children who have disabilities (Rohana) who might not be excited to see
all the mask and costumes, etc.