Long Time No Blog...

So, I started writing my first prayer letter for our adoption today and thought it was a good run down of the last three years to today, so I am going to post part of it here as well, so everyone of my 2 followers will be up to date! LOL It's been so long since I've posted, I'm not sure my followers are even following anymore, but I want to keep adding when I can. Prayer Letter 1 - 06/10/2013 Most of you know, but the Lord confirmed to us His call for us to adopt in October 2009. I was SO excited, and just thought that meant we'd soon be turning in an application and heading to China. I mean, God had answered my prayers about opening Jason's heart to adoption. And He didn't stop there, we left that informational meeting with Jason telling me, "We are going to China, and we are going to adopt a little girl with special needs." I was floored! I'd just asked God to confirm to him that this was what we were supposed to do. I didn't even ask Him to tell us where. And, though at the time I worked with kids with special needs, I'd not even considered adopting a child with special needs. WOW, I was amazed. But if you know us well, you know our story of adoption got put on hold in that spot right there. For three...long...hard...years! Right after we accepted this call for our lives it seems "someone" went to work trying to stop it. But our God is greater and we know that ALL of these things He is working for our good and HIS glory! Jason's mom found out just months after we committed to adopt that she had cancer. She lived for two more and passed away. We were left to care for her aging and not in good health parents. I have been so blessed to be a part of this family. I did not grow up especially close to my mom's parents, and my dad's father passed away before I was born. So, Nanny is the only grandparent I've had that I was close to. Jason's grandparents accepted me as their own the moment we met. I am SO thankful that God allowed us to be able to care for both of them and keep them at home until they passed away. Jason's grandfather passed away one year after his mom-to the day, almost the hour. The next year, Sept. 2012, Nene passed away. It has been a long road, but like I said, I am able to ask myself and honestly answer - Is God good even when things aren't? I know He is! SO...around January I started asking Jason again, when he thought the time would be. This time he gave me a very definite answer. We will begin the process in April. So, I hung in there until April and April 1, 2013 I turned our application to adopt in to XYZ Adoption Agency. So currently we are in the homestudy process. We have completed 2 out of 4 meetings. We are working on personal training that has to be complete before meeting 3. That is about it....until last Friday...