Two months down

Today marks two months on the wait list for our referrals. At the time it seems like it is taking forever for the days to pass, but as I look back I feel like it has gone pretty quickly. I guess that is the way it always is though. I'm hoping that we will not have much more waiting, but I'm also not holding my breath on it.

Matt and I worked on the dresser Saturday but unfortunately it was too cold to do anything with it Sunday. We are stripping the old paint off of it and staining it. So far we have one drawer and the dresser itself left to strip, they are partially stripped which is good. I stained 3 of the drawers Saturday but was only able to get one coat on them so Matt was hoping to get the second coat on them today, but it is not supposed to get too warm today so that might not happen. I wish the weather would cooperate with us so we can get this done and get the dresser out of the garage and be able to put both cars back in the garage. And so I can the dresser organized with our diapers. I bought the curtains for the nursery on Friday and I am hoping that Matt will be able to put up the rod so we can get those up. We bought a roller shade for the window also, but Matt is hoping that he doesn't have to put it up and that the curtains will suffice, but I want the room to be blacked out so we will see who wins this battle. (Me). I really am hoping to have pics up soon. Well that is all for now. Till next time, thank you for all the prayers and well wishes.

One year

One year ago today we had our first home study meeting, which started our journey to International Adoption. At that time I was really hoping we would be a lot closer to our babies than we are, but God had other plans. I trust that He will do what is right for us and our family.

There are rumors going around in the Ethiopian adoption world that we will now have to take two trips to Ethiopia for our adoption instead of the one trip consisting of 7-10 days. Now as of right now our agency is saying that they will not be implementing this to their clients, but if it becomes a law there is nothing they can do, we will have to take two trips. As you might realize this will be more added expense to the already expensive journey of ours. It could possibley run us an extra $5000.00 to $6000.00, but I know that we will be able to do it, God can move mountains and in comparison this is just an ant hill. We would appreciate to be in your prayers in this time of unsurity as to what is in store for us financially. We know that the children God has planned for us are in Ethiopia and we will do whatever it takes to get to them.

Last night my mother-in-law and I went and picked up the dresser we will be using as the changing table. So this weekend Matt and I will be sanding and staining it. We will also be getting the shelves hung and the blinds. I'm still looking for brown curtains that I like. If I can't find any I might look for fabric and see if my grandmother, who happens to be an awesome seamstress along with other things, will make us curtains. After tax season I will be helping my grandma make the baby wipes and washcloths. I would love to learn how to sew, so maybe this will help me get on my way. In high school I took home ec and sewed shorts and a sweatshirt but I have totally forgotten everything I learned. Hopefully after this weekend I will have more pics of the nursery to share.

Some nursery pics

Her bed is on the left, his on the right. Above her crib are pics of a baby zebra and a baby giraffe, above his are pics of two lion cubs and a baby elephant.

A close up of Africa. I was going to put a heart where Ethiopia is but I like it better this way.

So last weekend Matt and I painted the nursery. My friends were giving us one of their cribs so we wanted to get the room painted before they dropped it off. Then this past week I did this I painted Africa on the wall. FYI I had help with a projector my SIL borrowed from the school she teaches at, I am not that talented. It took me most of the week to get it done and I love the final result. I hope the babies love it too. I bought a dresser off of craigs list today to be our changing table but we won't be able to pick it up until Thursday night, it needs some freshening up but it will work great. I had bought a changing table early last year but I decided that a dresser would work out better, this way we can store all our cloth diapers in a more convenient space.

Matt had been in Florida visiting his best friend. We figured it will be his last man trip for a very long time. Once our babes come home he will not be going on a trip without me. LOL! It has been very boring without him here yet very peaceful at the same time. The dogs really miss him, of course I do too but at least I know he is coming home. He will be home Tuesday night late, so I won't probably get to bed til after midnight but it will be worth it to see him.