Monthly Archives: August 2010 We are living life to the fullest…and then some here…so lemme catch up on the as of late… FIRST…our little man slept through the NIGHT for the FIRST time last night! So proud of him:) Makes me want to do a toe touch…but I could never do that…but look who can:) Every day he gets […] FIRST—for all of you participating in the “Pad Party” project—I’m still working on emailing the pattern to all of you. So far…we’ve had probably close to 80-100 ladies respond…I’ve lost count–and that’s a GREAT thing! Here’s the dealio. We are setting the final deadline for pads to be mailed in for October 1st. We have […] Can not wait for you to tell us about the Wiphan Project. =) I think Isaac is adorable; that adorable smirk and laugh, kissable face. How do you get anything done with this added cutie-pie in your mix?!! I can’t wait to hear about the new project! We are in!!!! So excited, i heard back from our pastor’s wife that the idea sounds great and she is going to talk to me about it tonight after church. The only problem I see us having is getting them to you before Oct 1st because we might not be able to schedule it at our church and get it done beforehand. Will there be any other opportunity between Oct and Dec to send them in? Thanks! OH GOSH, he is so adorable!!!!! He has come for far in such a short time. Good job momma!!! I pray he gets the all clear for tubes and I can’t wait to hear about the project! Can’t wait to hear about the upcoming project… COUNT US IN!!!! bobi What an adorable video! I love seeing that little toothy smile! Wow, that looks SO uncomfortable =) Can’t wait for the WIPHAN project! love your heart andrea. I could just EAT HIM UP! 🙂 LOVE HIM!!! (and) count US in on project #2.. so excited to see what is in store. 🙂 Praising God for all the good He is doing through Wiphan, using wonderful people like *YOU*. Have a wonderfully BLESSED day, my friend. 🙂  As I near the end of what just might be the craziest week of my life (it was a crazy one!) I am reminded that I have SO many things to be thankful for! I am thankful… 1. Approximately 75 ladies are joining us to make a difference in Korah and Wiphan with Project 1: […] WOW! That is a busy weekend, and LOTS to be thankful for. I had a stressful week too….but just one big thing, not like you. Just blogged about it on mine…. Yes want to help! And praying for you VERY busy friend, we met at agci picnic, I’m mahlets mom, what a cool idea, try to take care of yourself along the way, you are a great mom, praying for the tubes wed i love this “thankful” post with the pics! so precious! So glad you brought to our attention the pad thing! I am so excited to share it with the ladies at our church and I hope they get on board with me! Andrea, I think I have the pattern, but can you send it to me again to make sure I have it right. We are putting together a sewing party with church gals, too. So excited to be involved!! Hello again, having a pad party, need all the how too’s To prepare you for our first project–this morning I ran across this…and thought it was perfect to share… It reminded me how we take the simplest things for granted…like when I see a cute pair of shoes at Target. I…put them in my cart. Some times I think twice, but most of the time I […] I support creativity … sounds like a much-needed project!! Please send me information! I would be happy to make some!!! I would love to help with this project. My sewing machine is out and ready! Please send me information. I will get a group of women together. You really need a “like” button for us to click on at the end of these posts! I want to help. Please send me info. Thank you so much for sharing. The simple things we take for granted. This really touched my heart and I so want to be a part of this project. I’m not sure how to get started but I will definate stay focused on this website. Oh! Loving the practical side of helping. Can’t wait to hear more! 🙂 I posted this topic on my blog Tuesday and have had so much interest! I believe the goal will be exceeded! Praise God! Please send me the information too! I would love to have a “pad party!” I would love to sew some of these…please send me the pattern! I’m in! Time to put my sewing skills to good use! Sending you an e-mail now!! I would love to help make them. I would love to help – please send me the pattern! My mom and I will be doing it…we’ve been looking for something like to do. Thanks for letting us know of the need! hi, I will be glad to make some. Send me the pattern, etc., please. I will also let my cousin in Virginia who has a weekly bible study at her house know about it and they can also make some. Blessings to you, Andrea, Billie I’d be glad to sew some–please send me the pattern and info! I would love to be a part of this. Please send me more info. Thanks! Please send me the pattern and any suggestions for hosting a party. I would love to help. Blessings, Lisa I would love to make some. Send me the pattern and info and I’ll get my friends to help. Also I should be taking my first trip to ET in Nov. so if you want to send a bunch of pads that are ready to go I will hand deliver them. We are going to go to Korah and it will be easy to pack! By the way, I am friends with Melanie (also live a block away) if she isn’t too busy with Ava I’m sure she would want to make some too. I’ve heard lots about your sweet son! Congrats!!! Hi Andrea. I happened upon your blog while looking up info on adoption. The Lord laid adoption on my heart a few weeks ago so now I am just praying and waiting on the hubby- does this happen to anyone else? Where one person is ready and willing to take the leap of faith and the spouse is just not sure? So discouraging. Anyway, I would love to help with this project! Awesome to be able to help out with such a need! I am not sure I will ever look at my monthly cycle the same after reading this post! jknaleven@hotmail.com Andrea – I’m not a super sewer but I know some basics. I would love to have some more information about this to make sure I could to the project. I think I can , I think I can, etc!!! 🙂 I know I want to and will do my best to gather a group of ladies to get several made for this project! Look forward to gaining more details of this project!!! We just had a wonderful group of women from our church get together for “dresses for Africa” so I have no doubt they’d be willing to help with a pad party! Looking forward to the instructions and we’ll get planning! Hey Andrea! What a great idea!! I want to be a part of this project so please send me more info on how to get started, I do not sew, but I will try to get a group together that does and we can throw a “pad party” at my house or church!!! Thanks for heading this up!!! (: Hope ITY’s ENT visit goes well today! i can cut things..or just give money…I can’t sew 🙂 can’t wait to help, kj Please send me the pattern. Count me in. I’d love to get that pattern and the details on when they need to be done. :o) I would love details on making these and where to send them and ideas for a party! Wonderful idea! kdthreads is on board for sure! I can get a group together to knock some of these out… please send us the info! 🙂 i am very interested in this, where would we access the pattern? i want to talk to my pastors wife about this! :0) when would you need them by? I would love to make some and think I can get a group of ladies from our church to help. Get me the info. I am interested in hosting a pad party! Please email me the information. 🙂 Please send me the info, I’d love to put my Singer to good use! I’d love the pattern as well. I bet I can get some ladies from church together for a sewing party! Thank you for sharing this… My girls & I would love to help…& encourage others in our community to help as well. Could you please email me the pattern, info., etc. please email me the pattern! Please give me additional information about participating in this wonderful project. How many, pattern, where to ship them by what date, all the details. Peace. please send me the patter and where to send the pads once made – I would love to help out. I’d love to sew some pads, and I have some friends to help me!!! Count me in! Send me more info and an address to send my goods to!! 🙂 Awesome! Oh my goodness.. COUNT ME IN. When GOd first started breaking my heart for orphans, He opened my eyes to the people of the Korah Dump. They are on my mind SO much. I have often thought about this very subject with woman/girls that live in poverty and wondered how on earth they did it. I’m SO IN. Thanks SO much for allowing US to be a part of what you’re doing. I’d love the pattern. I know several girlfriends that would love to do this. Thanks for passing this along! Please send me the pattern. My Mother, Sister and Daughter meet weekly for sewing and we would be honored to contribute our time to this wonderful project. I was hoping you could send me more information about this, I’d love to get the ladies in my church involved. Thank you. Hey Andrea! I just saw this and would love to help! I am going to attempt a teen girl sewing party!!! If you still need help…let me know and send me the info.. PS..I don’t comment much anymore but I still keep up and LOVING the whole family! Andrea, Can you send me the info too? I’d like to get my mommy’s group to do this. Thanks!!! I’m in the process of getting a group of gals together to do this project!!! Would you be able to send me the info and directions for it? Thank you!!! WONDERFUL project! -Suzi Hi there, I live in South Africa and although sanitary pads and tampons are definitely more available here than in some of the other African countries, there are thousands upon thousands of women here that cannot afford it. Would it be possible to obtain the pattern from you? Our church already has a “girl” project going to supply basic toiletries each month, but I think this can make a real difference as it is something that can last. […] challenged ladies from all over the United States to join us in. You might remember the post here: It’s A Girl Thing. We sent the kits to BOTH Korah (in Ethiopia) AND Wiphan (in Zambia). While we haven’t gotten […]  Have you ever prayed that? Well, I’ll warn you. Don’t pray it unless you want your world to be rocked–your heart to be changed. Praying that prayer–will mean so many things…priorities change…what keeps you up at night changes…what you leave at the cross changes…and what brings you JOY changes. Because let me say this–TRUE JOY […] USE ME!!!! Oh, how I want God to use my family! I have been praying for a project to be part of. Can’t wait to get started, my friend. Love your heart! What a lovely post and inspiring prayer… AWESOME post! Love it! Beautiful. You sound very much like Kay Warren in her book “Dangerous Surrender”. Oh Andrea, I love your thoughtful, hard-hitting posts. My husband and I discuss this nearly all of the time too, and I am starting to learn to allow my heart to break after so many years of mentally shutting down when faced with all of the information on the pain of others. Keep writing, keep encouraging, keep reaching out and prodding at us! You are such a blessing, and God IS using you. wow, precious friend! You can put words to what my heart feels… how do you do that 😉 God is encouraging so many of us through your heart. -xoxo Thank you for allowing the Lord to use you to continue to break my heart for what breaks His as this has been my prayer! Amazing post… I can’t wait to hear what you have for us. The Lord is really working in my life in ways I never dreamed He would and I can’t wait to see what happens! Oh how that prayer literally changed the course of our lives and how thankful I am that it did!! I was going through my typical morning routine of browsing through blogs with my coffee and breakfast and came across your post and couldn’t help but think it was more than coincidental that I read it today. Last night I prayed that prayer (for the millionth time) after a conversation that day with my husband about fear and comfort and a dream the night before. My heart desires that joy you mentioned daily—I want to grab it and never let go. I feel like God has also been reminding me that it starts with one single step forward and He will take care of the rest. Thank you. I can’t help but think this was a God-ordained encounter! Can’t wait to see what He has in store! you never cease to amaze me! Exactly the conversations we have in our house, the yearning that God has given to our hearts! Yes yes yes!!! Use us! We are praying for what is to come – so excited to be part of His plan! Andrea, you spoke my heart! We too have recently finished Radical and Crazy Love and we find ourselves asking God, what now? what do you want us to do? How do we live now? Your conversation with your husband is so similar to our conversations…God is definitely stirring in us a desire to do so much more then live out this American Dream! Andrea ~ Speechless; so amazingly written no additional words are necessary. YES, I am here to be used for the Glory of God. Looking forward to your upcoming posts. Very beautifully written. Blessings to you. Suzanne Absolutely beautiful!! I have been praying this same request. “Use Me”. I want to help. We have these same conversations and struggles. Looking forward to partnering with you on some projects in the coming months. Love you, Andrea. oh, wonderful post…loved every word of it, kj You are right- that prayer: “break my heart for what breaks yours”- will CHANGE lives. It changed mine. Thank you again for your words, Andrea! I related to every sentence of this post! Thank you. It is so encouraging to know that others feel the strain too. Keep posting! You are such an inspiration! Bless your heart! I had a conversation like this one with my hubby last night! It seems that God is stirring a lot of hearts about how to help “the least of these”. Thank you LORD for quipping a wonderful woman of God like you to give us the means to help! Can’t wait to see how we can help in real, BIG ways! I continue to be awed by the tears that flow when thinking about how “I” live…how I choose to live…with so many who do not have choices. I left a part of my heart in Ethiopia last year and continue to be drawn to “mans inequity to man” throughout the world. Thank you for continuing to bring it to the forefront! Andrea, again.. all I can say is “WOW”… this is exactly how i feel I just can’t seem to come up with the words to express it… you are so talented at how you express your thoughts and feelings, they speak straight to my heart! I am reading David Platt’s RADICAL… this is so in line with living for the Gospel the way Jesus intended vs the comfortable way we have twisted our “christian mindset” to be. Lord send me! We (as a family) started praying this prayer about two years ago and let me just say that God has rocked our world in a huge way. He has asked us to step out of our comfort zones in many ways but He has graciously given us the strength through his Holy Spirit to be obedient to HIS will for our lives. I love your heart. Thanks for sharing! I sat leaning in closer and closer to my computer the more I read this post. God’s Greatest in the days ahead. I catch myself asking “how do we balance it?” “Where is the line?” and then He whispers “you don’t and there isn’t?” It is ALL for Him. Hard. hard. hard. But please Lord show me how you want to use me! Thank you Andrea for always being so honest and encouraging. I can’t wait to hear about the projects and walk side by side for His glory! I’m in!! Can’t wait to see what you have planned! Another prayer that you need to watch out for is “give me a life of eternal significance.” That’s the prayer that God used to lead us to adoption. If you ask, He will surely answer!! =) Andrea. My husband and I have struggled with this since returning home in January with our two Ethiopian daughters. We know this world is not our rest, but our rest will come in Heaven when we are surrounded by the glory of God. We have now teamed up with http://www.starved4hope.org to beging supporting a school of 166 children in Ethiopia and we feel that this is just the beginning. We are so excited to start living a life that brings glory to God as we daily die to ourselves. Can’t wait to see what God will do next! Wow! This post is EXACTLY how we have been feeling since we started our adoption journey over a year ago. Thank you for putting how we all feel into words! i want in! let me know what I need to do! I put “break my heart for what breaks yours” and I ended up on this post on your website. Yes, I have prayed this prayer, and He has taken me into other’s pain, mostly emotional and mental. I have suffered in this way, too, and so with the affliction I suffered with, I could have compassion, and then out of that comes the prayers or whatever other actions He leads me in. My husband and I are involved with a ministry called InJesus’Name.org, which is focused on supporting the Body of Christ in impoverished nations. Our hearts are turned to the widows, orphans, rock-crushers, lepers, disabled, etc in mostly India, but in other countries as well. It is so refreshing to see that He is putting this joyful burden on others’ hearts as well, and that His ministry of giving, encouraging, compassion, and loving in action is being done, through the few laborers He talked about. Let us not become weary in well-doing, as the ones not in “fairyland” need the ones of us who are. We have been blessed to be a blessing, and not to hoard it unto ourselves. To Him be the glory! Keep on, keepin’ on,my sister and brother; the finish line will be here before you know it, and He will keep you until the end as you trust in Him. |
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It’s so good that he is getting PT so early. You’ll be amazed and grateful in very short order!!
andrea, i SERIOUSLY cannot get enough of his belly and butt, they are the biggest and cutest butt and belly on a baby i have seen! so adorable! yay for him bearing weight, praise the Lord! :0)
Love those pics…. 🙂
OK the article made me want to cry…..My baby is in 5th grade- NOT FAIR…yesterday she was a cutie pie 14 month old…time goes tooo quickly. Treasure it all!!!
we are praying for you all tomorrow – love you guys!
Yay! So happy for you guys! What a huge improvement for little Isaac T!!! 🙂
I’ve had 2 kids go under for ear tubes. I’m assuming people have told you what to expect, but since I didn’t see mention of it on your blog…just be prepared for some tears afterwards. Coming off the anethesia is tough at this age. They can be upset (seriously, brace yourself) for as long as an hour. Stay strong and hold him through it and he’ll be acting himself again by midday. The tubes will be awesome and he’ll be much happier. I don’t regret doing it with either of my kids, and my 3rd will get hers this Fall as soon as the infections start again. (Thanks, as always, for your blog – been a reader for a few months now – adopting from ET next year!)
Enjoyed your post and loved the article. I dread school only because the time it takes them away!!
Wow, that’s a lot for a day! =) Very fun and crazy…just the way we like it. Praying for ITY tomorrow getting tubes….recovery was not so fun for me, and I know surgery was always hard on my mom. Prayign for you too friend! Let us know how it goes. Thanks for posting that post from your friend…I often do wonder if its going to change when my Lil Man gets older, if he won’t be as fun….but it has shocked me so far that with every day I love him even more and I am so proud of him and really enjoying the moment. Glad to hear from “experienced moms” that it continues to be that way!
Tears streaming after that article! I feel like I was just in 1st grade- where did these kids who stole my heart come from? Praying for Isaac this morning and hopeful that he can call and hear Mag Pie after the procedure…
PRAYING for you all this morning!! I’m hoping IT gets a much deserved break from the ear troubles! We did tubes in December and they have been a huge blessing for our little guy Sam!! When you are having a long, hard day…just think…there are plenty of us reading the blog wishing and hoping for those days…we know they are coming and we can’t wait!!!