So today has been almost a repeat of Tuesday in the amount of stress hormones I've experienced also if you factor in last Fridays emotional upheaval then yes I'd say some essential oils are in order for this woman! My most amazing brother-in-law came and stayed with us a week, spending all his time tiling our shower for us which looks amazing I might add! He got in some time with his namesake and we had the pleasure of his company while the poor boy worked on our house all week! Its a mess! We are working diligently and ask for your prayers as we seek to finish our addition these last few weeks of summer. We have reached the money has run out and we are running on elbow grease portion so its been tough, but with family and friends we are making it! Shout out to Dad for all his experience and help. He has been a wealth of knowledge and help, we are eternally grateful! Pray for our boy daily and pray God would lead this walk. Sometimes the hearing world at large doesn't understand the Deaf world in which we operate and that is proving yet again a challenging road for me to navigate so prayers on that end! We are at home depot yet again then back home for more work tonight. Thank you again for your prayers and support!
Jessie Pruyn
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Monday, July 7, 2014
Busy times of preparation!
Wow this past week has flown by in a blur! Brianna and I were blessed to have Brice off for a week from work and how did we celebrate as a family you might ask? We all hung drywall! All day, everyday! We did finally stop about 5pm on Friday and celebrate our country's independence with some friends and family.
This past week has been super busy. Brice's Dad has been a gem! He taught me how to pour our own shower liner, and then today taught me how to do tile! I LOVE it! Like I am going to miss this a lot, but I will add that this past week has been hard on Brianna so I know its better that we finish all this before our new kiddos come home as they will have an even BIGGER time adjusting to a new home, new country, and new LIFE!
Some exciting news on the adoption front. We finally got approved to begin our non-profit online fundraising! This means that you can share our website with anyone and everyone that you know and their gifts are tax deductible! So please tell EVERYONE! My biggest fear is that we won't have the money needed to proceed with this adoption and Brice as well as myself know that the God we serve can indeed do mighty things through his people. So we are asking that you please SHARE! Share this blogsite...share our facebook page, and even better share our adopt together page.
http://www.adopttogether.org/ourdeafadoption
We have a little less than one year to raise the needed funds and have just a little over 2-3 months to raise our the money for our next agency payments to complete homestudy and begin dossier (roughly $6,000). We appreciate all your help as we spread the word!
Don't forget to tell people about our coffee http://www.justlovecoffee.com/ourdeafadoption
or our shirts for sell http://www.adoptionbug.com/ourdeafadoption
Lots of ways you can help us reach our goals as we begin saving every dime we have for the estimated $23,000 in travel costs alone to go get our kids, be in country, and then the cost to bring them home!
This past Sunday we learned more information in our adoption education classes about some of the issues our kids might face as older children. Just like Brice and I are nervous and scared to be moving with our young daughter to a country we have never been and leaving the beloved home we have poured so much of ourselves into for the past few months and years even, our kiddos will be leaving everything they have ever known for something and someone they will have barely known. For that reason alone I am glad that we will have the long stay in their country to learn their ways, their food, as much of their culture and rituals as we can so that we can better meet their needs, but I won't lie it is downright nerve wracking when I think about it sometimes. While I can't speak for my better half, I tend to be a creature of habit. I like my comfort zone, I like normalcy, routine, while an occasional adventure is great this will be one of the biggest and most definitely for the longest duration of any adventure I have yet experienced.
I ask for your prayers. That our hearts would be prepared for whatever God has in store, that HE would guide every step of our way, that HE would provide the needed funds, and that HE would be glorified through it all!
So say a prayer and SHARE, SHARE, SHARE!
Jessie
This past week has been super busy. Brice's Dad has been a gem! He taught me how to pour our own shower liner, and then today taught me how to do tile! I LOVE it! Like I am going to miss this a lot, but I will add that this past week has been hard on Brianna so I know its better that we finish all this before our new kiddos come home as they will have an even BIGGER time adjusting to a new home, new country, and new LIFE!
Some exciting news on the adoption front. We finally got approved to begin our non-profit online fundraising! This means that you can share our website with anyone and everyone that you know and their gifts are tax deductible! So please tell EVERYONE! My biggest fear is that we won't have the money needed to proceed with this adoption and Brice as well as myself know that the God we serve can indeed do mighty things through his people. So we are asking that you please SHARE! Share this blogsite...share our facebook page, and even better share our adopt together page.
http://www.adopttogether.org/ourdeafadoption
We have a little less than one year to raise the needed funds and have just a little over 2-3 months to raise our the money for our next agency payments to complete homestudy and begin dossier (roughly $6,000). We appreciate all your help as we spread the word!
Don't forget to tell people about our coffee http://www.justlovecoffee.com/ourdeafadoption
or our shirts for sell http://www.adoptionbug.com/ourdeafadoption
Lots of ways you can help us reach our goals as we begin saving every dime we have for the estimated $23,000 in travel costs alone to go get our kids, be in country, and then the cost to bring them home!
This past Sunday we learned more information in our adoption education classes about some of the issues our kids might face as older children. Just like Brice and I are nervous and scared to be moving with our young daughter to a country we have never been and leaving the beloved home we have poured so much of ourselves into for the past few months and years even, our kiddos will be leaving everything they have ever known for something and someone they will have barely known. For that reason alone I am glad that we will have the long stay in their country to learn their ways, their food, as much of their culture and rituals as we can so that we can better meet their needs, but I won't lie it is downright nerve wracking when I think about it sometimes. While I can't speak for my better half, I tend to be a creature of habit. I like my comfort zone, I like normalcy, routine, while an occasional adventure is great this will be one of the biggest and most definitely for the longest duration of any adventure I have yet experienced.
I ask for your prayers. That our hearts would be prepared for whatever God has in store, that HE would guide every step of our way, that HE would provide the needed funds, and that HE would be glorified through it all!
So say a prayer and SHARE, SHARE, SHARE!
Jessie
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Seriously...
So this week started off amazingly as we had our homestudy. Learned that we can go on hold if we don't raise the funds needed to continue to process and that we love our agency as they prayed with us and helped us know what we needed to get finished without freaking out about what wasn't done. We feel like we are in a good place! This morning started off somewhat on a more sour note as I called to ask a few questions about hanging drywall in regards to hvac and instead got yelled at that our hvac had to pull the permit instead of us despite me doing the electricity. Good grief....I hate the politics of things. Tmw we go and get fingerprinted to make sure that we aren't criminals. Just pray everything goes well. Never done anything outside of take my brothers candy when I was a kid but so afraid we will be the freak case who gets flagged because there was a mix up in the system and it will delay things. Sigh....knowing its all in God's hands. I know He has a plan but after watching the documentary Stuck with my BFF its so hard to think of all the MILLIONS of orphans that are suffering around the world and in need of LOVE! Bless the poor social worker. I just broke down crying on her telling her my biggest fear is that we will be so close financially to meeting our goals but not enough to complete the adoption. Trusting God can be such a hard walk of faith! Off to drive the bus for camp SummerSign today. May God bless you all !
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Trusting while in action
So today the drywall arrived, the hvac is almost completed and if we get a few days straight of sunshine then my yard will finally get covered back up and not be torn to pieces! I have cleaned house (always more to do on that end) and am making some crafty things to sell at our yard sale. natural bug salve to ease those itchy bug bites, Bath salts, and other neat craft stuff that will all be for sale.
Brice and I are so tired. We had such a time getting out of bed this morning. I have been up to almost midnight most nights, working on adoption paperwork, grants, cleaning house, or playing with Brianna. He is working every spare minute on the house, but we are taking breaks to just enjoy life so no worries, but our goal is to get as much accomplished over summer before I go back to work as we possibly can!
We finally got most of our supplies in and this weekend will pickup the remaining things we need to really get things moving so that we can work all next week on drywall! I am going to call the HVAC inspector Tuesday morning and have him come out. Be prayerful that we pass otherwise it is quite a bit of additional work and expense that we will encounter fixing the problems I foresee.
Keep us in your prayers specifically for strength and energy, so tired as of late.
Please share our story with your friends and churches. We are doing everything possible on our end to prepare for this little one to be ours and as of now we are the only family pursuing him. Keep us and him in your prayers as we have our first home study done June 23rd!
Thank you!
Brice and I are so tired. We had such a time getting out of bed this morning. I have been up to almost midnight most nights, working on adoption paperwork, grants, cleaning house, or playing with Brianna. He is working every spare minute on the house, but we are taking breaks to just enjoy life so no worries, but our goal is to get as much accomplished over summer before I go back to work as we possibly can!
We finally got most of our supplies in and this weekend will pickup the remaining things we need to really get things moving so that we can work all next week on drywall! I am going to call the HVAC inspector Tuesday morning and have him come out. Be prayerful that we pass otherwise it is quite a bit of additional work and expense that we will encounter fixing the problems I foresee.
Keep us in your prayers specifically for strength and energy, so tired as of late.
Please share our story with your friends and churches. We are doing everything possible on our end to prepare for this little one to be ours and as of now we are the only family pursuing him. Keep us and him in your prayers as we have our first home study done June 23rd!
Thank you!
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Blessed not stressed ;)
Wow time flies and quickly becomes a blur. We have been working steadily on our house. Made these wonderful plans that included drywall delivered on Monday, adoption agency call on tues, then wed-thurs Brice and a friend were gonna hang drywall somewhere in there they were supposed to cover my septic system too. Well it has rained and rained the ground is so wet they wont deliver the drywall, so we had to postpone that until next week and of course cant cover septic with mud everywhere...sigh. My dental work from last week is having issues so I return to the dentist this Thursday and Hvac is coming tmw instead of next wed like I thought (Praise God) so we rushed to pull permits this morning before driving an hour to a Video Phone so that we could take the agencies phone call. It has been rather hectic and my emotions have been all over, but I praise God for the network of supportive and loving friends who have walked this road of adoption before me, have a heart for adoption and children and just guide me through this time! We called today and set up the time to officially begin our first step in the homestudy process. Knowing that this child we are pursuing and the other child we desire but have no idea yet their identity need a forever home and someone to love them just breaks my heart! We KNOW that God has a plan and are trusting that He will work out the details throughout this adoption process. He has shown Himself faithful over and over again and we know that He alone led us to this time and place! So off we go on our fundraising endeavors!
Several friends offered some great ideas and I am currently working on a chili cook-off for this fall to include a silent auction...if you know of a location big enough(free)...that is my first hurdle!!! Email me at jesspruyn@gmail.com
Also working on a painting fundraiser...painting party class with friends!!! So keep your eyes open! In the meantime get your coffee and shirts on!
www.justlovecoffee.com/ourdeafadoption
www.adoptionbug.com/ourdeafadoption
Check these out and look for other ways you can help!!!
Thank you!
Jess and Brice
Several friends offered some great ideas and I am currently working on a chili cook-off for this fall to include a silent auction...if you know of a location big enough(free)...that is my first hurdle!!! Email me at jesspruyn@gmail.com
Also working on a painting fundraiser...painting party class with friends!!! So keep your eyes open! In the meantime get your coffee and shirts on!
www.justlovecoffee.com/ourdeafadoption
www.adoptionbug.com/ourdeafadoption
Check these out and look for other ways you can help!!!
Thank you!
Jess and Brice
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Today has been a fabulous and productive day. We poured concrete so that HVAC can begin soon. We also got both BLUE stickers for the electric and septic so we are READY to move forward. Our new goal is to have the Final Inspection the end of June, meaning all drywall hung, light fixtures and receptacles in place (hopefully pa int done as well). That would just leave the minor detail and flooring for July! Please pray that we meet these deadlines as well as have successfully Fundraisers as we don't want anything hindering us in our journey to bring home two orphans. We have started even MORE paperwork for the adoption process and are arranging our schedule so that we can begin the needed trainings required for our home study.
Keep us in your prayers. SO excited to see where God is going to take us!
Jessie Pruyn
Keep us in your prayers. SO excited to see where God is going to take us!
Jessie Pruyn
Homestudy here we come....
Application and tons of paperwork mailedas of last Thursday. Praying we pass our rough in inspection today then we can start insulation and drywall. Would love to paint by July! This momma needs some coffee...driving two miles to make a phone call at 7 am is ridiculous! Alas I am going home and at least should have a productive morning filling out grants and preparing for inspection and to bring our sweet kiddos home! So excited to be on this journey with my best friend....love you Brice Pruyn!
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