This morning I started my day sitting out on the front porch. Richard had taken the big kids to their hybrid school they attend on Mondays and Wednesdays…my mornings to rest (–or rather…home catchup…laundry, meal planning, cleaning and reading). I sat on the porch drinking by coffee–with Blankie (aka Jazz…the cat whom I am terribly […]
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Category Archives: Day in the Life We had our conference call about travel with our agency’s travel coordinator yesterday. LOVE her. Didn’t love the news we got. It looks like May travel is impossible. His birthday month. Our hope. Our prayer. BUT–between the week of China’s national trade show AND their 4 day break for Labor Day–they are seeing May consulate […] Yes, sister! Yes! With all five of our adoptions the battle has raged and we rejoiced because we knew we were running God’s race, not our own! Keep up that good fight and your eyes fixed on Jesus! The victory has already been won and your boy will come home exactly when God planned all along! Thanks for the update (as much as I know it’s not the news you were praying for or wanting to be updating with) and for sharing your heart and where you’re at in processing and responding to it. Praying, believing, and trusting with you still! How can our heart lay in the same place? It amazes me. Of course we are praying for a flight out end of May as well. OUR miracle on top of that, God provides us the rest of our plane ticket money and orphanage donation to have when we leave. I TRUST IN HIM!!! He has perfect timing. But my mommy heart cries at night for her to be in my arms too. To say God has been in the details for our most recent adoption–well, although true–that is quite the understatement. Every corner turned…every milestone reached…every prayer asked–He has been there… …in the most perfect timing. We saw Ezekiel’s (Zeke’s) picture just when we were ready to “try” to grow again. It had been four weeks since […] loved every. single. word. of this post. 🙂 I also love how you’ve brought us on all the highs and lows and ins and out of this journey for quite some time. I long to be consistent and disciplined and vulnerable enough to also do that better. Thanks for being an example for me. Love you friend!!! God ROCKS! Adoption is always, ALWAYS beautiful and scary and convoluted and filled with moments of God showing Himself to be the author of these stories! Hallelujah! My heart just needed to read this. I just needed this reminder of God’s love in the details right now in this terribly busy and stressful season of life. Thank you! Wow…! What a beautiful story He writes. So excited for your family! All I can say is WOW. God is so incredibly amazing. I just love how He is there in all of those little tiny details. So very happy for you and your family! Andrea, Your story has me wiping tears this morning and thinking of my own journeys… I love it when He allows us to see the beautiful bits that make up our stories! Thank you so much for sharing your amazing God moments….it is a completely AWESOME thing to watch Him meet us where we are and pour our His love on us in such personal ways. Once again your post hits home. As I sit here reading tonight I read over your post and my mind flashes back to when our son Mason died and then we buried him….I remember the agonizing tears and screams often not realizing they were coming from my mouth….and too sitting in church with tears streaming down my face unable to lift my hands or open my mouth to praise. But it was in that season that God revealed himself in a huge way that only God can and changed my life. Praying for you and your family as you wait for travel approval. Blessings this Easter! Mimi OH YES! He is a God of details!!! We got our letter Monday, April 1st and now you had encouraged me to call and check on our cable date??? and she what “day baby” we will have! LOL “JoY” our girl is a “Thursday” babe!!! My prayer for her is that God calls her to be a missionary so well see!  Last Fall we decided to update our kitchen. We wanted to do it without tearing out the cabinets–simply because it would cost a fortune to do that–and we aren’t planning on staying in this house forever (still dreaming of farm life;). In our old house, I painted our cabinets myself–BUT that was when I just […] What a beautiful kitchen! I bet you love cooking in it! 🙂 I can’t remember how I found your blog but we’re in the Article 5 process for our little girl from China, so I’m loving following along with your process! I hope you are able to travel in May! i love it andrea!!! Thanks for sharing! the island looks fantastico!!  After working the fancy off the last few months getting ready for our mommy retreats–we planned a fun little family get away to see extended family and have a little fun in Park City. Minus mommy being out of shape and needing Tylenol after just a few runs–we’ve had a blast. We’ve squeezed in ski […] |
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Made a lot of sense to me! 🙂 Thanks for sharing…
I love reading your blog! M a few days behind but am catching up while my daughter naps. I need to catch up on posts for my blog as well…so much to do and often not enough hours.but God is good.