Pressing on...

   Life has been chaotic as we pursue the massive amount paperwork with the adoption.  Chasing down references and letters to compete this phase and completing our i800 for permission to go get our son.  Its been allot of work and almost overwhelming at times as we trade off childcare, grocery shop, cook, clean,  and deal with life,  but God in His wisdom provides every little detail.  We get a grant rejection letter and a check comes in the mail. He has never failed to show us his hand in this process.  We are prayerfully pushing forward. We now have a reeces rainbow account active in addition to abba fund and Adopttogether. Thanks to help from friends I am gathering assessments and slowly getting some basic school materials to take with us! Brianna and I have started doing 15 min of school everyday and talking about helping our brother learn. She is so excited and yet she has no clue. .. one day when he is stealing her toys I will remind her how much she wanted a brother haha.

Keep praying for those grants.  As we wrap up our homestudy the time is getting closer that they will be needed!

Want to help?  Send a check either to us or our reeces account (no fees withheld) or donate at our sites
Www.adopttogether.com/ourdeafadoption

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Have things to donate for our yard Sale?

Know a place we could have a spaghetti supper or chili cookoff this fall?

Keep praying!  Thanks

I800

I'd heard over and over again in my adoption groups about this particular form but it never really hit me until this past week as we started our dossier process and filled out this form, but I've got to admit it has taken my excitement to a whole new level!  Having a friend in country who is soon bringing her son home has made this even more real for me! We are just praying as we meet with a financial advisor and  save what we can while finishing the last few things around the house,  that God will provide every step of the way!  We ask for your support through prayers, donations  (we need clothes and yard sale items as well so donate to us instead of good will!), we lack around $33,000 total not to mention the expenses of covering our bills while out of work! This is a total walk of faith and we are taking it one day at a time.  Pray as we begin applying for grants! We are lacking $680 paying dossier n $890 for the I-800 fee just to get US approval to adopt.

Specific prayers are for our sweet daughter as we begin preparing her for a brother.  For our son as he waits alone with no clue that anyone is coming for him to make him apart of a FAMILY!

Prayers that God grants us the financial assistance and fundraisers to press forward!

In Him
Jessie