HATS

I am currently out of children's size Minion hats !
One family wanted 4 hats for their children,,  What a blessing
I will make more just need a couple days.

 On the adoption front., Still trying to work out the home study ???
And the one or two question.
It is all in His hands.

NO NEWS

No answer to the "two please " question.
I have prayed about this alot and I do have faith
that He can make it happen but I have this feeling
that it will be a no.  still praying

We went to a family Fall Festival yesterday, the young ones
 put on their costumes.

 A Pink Princess, and A Cat

                                               Can you guess ??

Hrutuja was a little over whelmed at first because
of all the people. By the time she was relaxed Rohana
started to get over whelmed and was crying and hitting me, she
just wanted to go home !!!  She did not want to play any of the
games to earn candy.  I showed her how toplay the fishing game
and the lady gave her M & M"s , she was like WOW !! she played
the fishing game again and then was done. I am so proud of her
 because even that little interaction was amazing to see. little steps.
The other two wanted candy ! We had a great time,
We celebrated with Waffles and Ice Cream for dinner.

ONE OR TWO ?

I have felt lead to ask about adopting two
Special Focus Children simultaneously.

We have talked about this a lot and feel that we have the
help, room and love to handle two at the same time.

I know personally that there are hard days when you
bring your children home and the days get better as time
goes on. 

Two children who will have food every day, medical needs met,
Be held and loved on by their family.

Not sure how our agency will feel about two at the same time
but the question is out there.

So Please pray for us and that Gods will be done.

"AND WHOEVER WELCOMES A LITTLE CHILD LIKE

 THIS IN MY NAME, WELCOMES ME"

                                                     MATTHEW 18:5

LOVE

HARVEST DAY

We enjoyed great weather and fun today.

 The girls enjoying the bounce house

 Hrutujas first pony ride

Rohana is a natural

 Hrutuja climbing the rock wall

 Nate volunteered to help out.

After his shift was done he enjoyed playing the monkey game.

We had a great day !!

ADOPTION FUNDRAISER BLOG HOP

Hello, we are the McChesney family and
we have made a commitment to adopt a boy from China.
Gabriel will be 10 in July and he has Cerebral Palsy.
Our Home Study is in review by our placing Agency..
The immigration process takes about two months (please) and then
on to the Consulate and after that our dossier will go to China.
Hoping to travel by summer.

Our family would be blessed with your prayers and financial support.
This will be our third adoption in four years (we brought Rohana
home in 2010). We realize it is a stretch financially to go through
it again.  When we adopted Rohana three years ago we did not have
a full picture of adoption. We only knew about it through other peoples
experiences. We are now on the other side and have a more realistic picture.
I say it is a daily roller coaster ride with many ups and downs!
In the midst of it all we are thrilled to be able to give this precious
boy a home and a family!           love, love, love



Our current fund raisers are crochet hats, T-shirts and angels
here on this blog .

 You can check out other family fundraising blogs here

 

ANGELS ?

This morning during the IEP, LAC, ESL meetings I was
told that the girls are Angels !  And my first thought was
are we talking about the same children that live with me ??
But then I thought, I am happy that they are angels at school.
They are really beautiful and very smart little girls.... BLESSED !!

The word Angel reminded me that I still have some of the
Angels that I made for our fundraising to bring Hrutuja home.

Check them out on the angel page and help us bring another angel home


Still struggling with our home study.. but praying daily.

6 DAYS

6 days went by really fast!
Monday hubby went back to work but without his cold
that he passed on to me. TY and I miss you

I helped the moms get our meal ready to serve @
House of Hope . Everyone just has a great time serving
meals to people who are in need. I am praying for a young
lady (Nychole) whom I met last night who needed someone
to listen to her and pray with her........Blessed

I am anxiously waiting to hear from either Agency
(Homestudy or placing) to let us know if they approved
of our home study yet ?. And that also means we will have
our first fees due to our placing Agency.
We have payed all fees up til now.  And it is really hard to ask for
help. We have $3000 more saved so we will be  $4220 short.
If you can help , Thank you , Thank you !!


I am certainly enjoying the sights and smells of fall.
yum, pumpkin everything... especially coffee.

And Hrutuja keeps asking about snow ?

FRYEBURG FAIR

The one fair we go to every year.

Everyone was excited to go, I love going but again we
are talking about taking Rohana into a big crouds.
Which she started to whine and fuss right away....
But thankfully it did not last long.

Once we got to Old McDonald's farm she was daddy glue.

The animal sounds were a little loud for her. They both loved
seeing the baby animals. Hrutuja walked thru the barns with
the big animals but held our hand and walked close to us.

 We enjoyed the milking room, And some ice cream.

The Alpacas were fun to watch.

What a great day. I can say it has been great to spend more time with dad.


Homestudy (rough draft) was finally sent to WACAP. 
needs to be ok'ed

BAD THING ?

Austin wanted me to make him an orange hat so that his
head would be warm when he goes walking around hunting.
As I was making it Nate said " you should make an A in
camo for the front". So I made it like that and he liked it.

We are effected by the governmental shutdown... :(
I am not sure this is a bad thing yet. We are going to spend
more time with daddy and get things done around hee.
So Dave came home early on Tuesday.
Yesterday we got some stuff done and went out to lunch
@ the Taj .    The Indian food was sooo good.

When I checked my emails, we received a grant from
our Agency !!!!!!!

Gabriel is on their waiting child list and we met the quals .!!!!

And in another email I have a job interview next week !!!


Today we are off with the kids, I'll post later or tomorrow.