It's finally time to share it with the world...our family is adopting! We covet your prayers as we embark on this journey. Our prayer is that God would use us for His glory, equip us for this task, and walk daily beside us. While we are not a perfect family or the perfect role models for representing our King, we pray His grace will guide us and grow within us as we move forward.
Ever since I was a little girl I imagined my family being a blended family. We grew up with a large adoptive family in our small town and so I guess it was a normal/daily thing to have friends that were a different color and nationality than you, it always felt like "home" to me. The uniqueness of their family intrigued me, I remember loving to hear where each child was from and watching them grow as each sibling came into their home. I think I always "knew" that someday I wanted to adopt. Honestly, I thought everyone had those thoughts. When Scott and I were dating we talked about adopting and what we would name all our kiddos, again, I thought all couples did that. Looking back now, I see that God was working on my heart, even way back then. A few years ago God really starting placing adoption on my heart hard core. I stumbled across this video from Eric Ludy around the same time and my heart was ripped out of my chest. Every once in a while I would drop Scott a fact or two about orphans or share a story I maybe had heard or read about. Eventually I got brave enough to ask him to watch this video I had found:-) From what I am told, he reacted like most adoptive husbands, kind of a "that's cool honey," "maybe we can talk about it someday" sort of thing. We ended the conversation something like this.."well then, I'll just pray God burdens your heart like he has burdened mine, so there! (insert me sticking out my tongue at him here!) I'm not sure how long it really took for him to "come around" but clearly God answered my prayer! Wink!
Well it's "officially" "official"!! We spent 30 minutes signing, notarizing, signing, and notarizing our orientation papers today! The gal that had to notarize them was so patient! We brought all three kids along (insert picture of circus here...) and so we are so grateful for her caring heart. She nailed it on the head when she told us that the Lord must be working here! Right on sister...! We even had 10 minutes to spare to run to the post office to mail them off. So excited!!! I also had an awesome conversation with the people who will be doing our homestudy. It feels good to finally put our thoughts into action after all this time. Now, off to make that online payment! Honestly the thought of clearing out our savings account over the next few weeks is daunting, until I look at it as giving it to the Big Guy, it was his to begin with anyway you know:-)
