Adoption is Bigger than the Universe - John Piper

On Our Way...

Today I made a deposit into Hadlee's account. It was pretty big for me. I put in $475. A little over $200 of that was JUST $5 that Jason and I, mostly Jason, has saved. We are saving fives....any time we get a five from using cash, we put it back to put in her account. I got the idea from my mom who got it from I don't know where, but that is how they saved over $1000 to use as spending money in Australia. Well, we need much more than $1000, and I don't think it will all come in fives, but it is what we are able to do right now and stay on the path of getting out of debt that we believe God is telling us to do. So, it makes for a much longer journey than I'd like, but I'd rather do what God wants and it take longer than try to hurry things and screw everything up.

So, I am very excited about this deposit. It is a HUGE thing because now we have enough to officially apply to the adoption agency. I don't think we are going to at this time, but we actually have enough money to do it. YIPPEEEEEEE!!!!!!

Our next big step is the Internation Adoption clinic coming up at the end of January. This is the next step Jason has said we will take. We will see how the process goes after that. I'm looking forward to it. Grandparents can come and I think both of Hadlee's grandmommas are planning to join us. I'm so excited.

Hadlee Ruth, I love you already. I don't know you. I look at pictures of beautiful little Chinese girls with special needs and wonder what you will look like and when I will get to hold you in my arms. I look forward to that day little girl.