We hit 100 today–and we decided to see if we could increase our numbers a bit to allow a few more mommies to join us! For right now–we are opening it up to 150 mommies!!! Currently we have about 110 signed up—so 40 more spots are open!
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Day 1 of retreat registration…and 70 adoption mommies are already registered to attend!!! Can you say WOW!? I do believe God wants to do something that weekend!!! SO EXCITING to be a part of…and so looking forward to FINALLY meeting with so many of you! Remember–if you registered today–the resort will begin accepting calls on Monday, October 25th for room reservations. And the better part–you won’t have to pay for that until you check out! (If you are already registered–then you are secured a room!) Last but not least…I have to tell you–almost half of the registrants are FLYING here!!! SO…if you really want to come–but you thought we’d think you were crazy if you flew to join us…you’ll be in PERFECT company if you fly in for our weekend together! AND if you REALLY wanna come but you need a roommate—I’d say about 20 of today’s registrants don’t have one! SOOO…if you trust me to pair you guys up…there are two queen beds in each room…and I think with our crowd–you will only be in your rooms to sleep! For more information about the retreat and how to register–visit the retreat blog here! I wish we could see a list of who all is coming! Can’t wait to see which of my “virtual friends” will be there:) I am flying from ARIZONA! I only wish I could stay longer and bum around Georgia. I love the South! I am soooo excited! Yea Laura!!! So glad you are coming! I was just sent a link to your blog and info about the retreat. I would LOVE to attend, just checking dates. What a beautiful idea. We jsut returned from China with our daughter, Claire, and are on the waiting list for Ethiopia. 🙂 I NEED to be with other adoptive mommas! And to retreat? Would LOVE it! If I can attend, I’d be happy to help. We live in Kennesaw. Just added myself as a follower of your blog. Rebecca Registration is on like Donkey Kong…I kid-you-not…we just put up the registration site–and we already have 35 registered in just a few hours!!! SO…spread the news—share the excitement…adoption mommies are getting together for a weekend in February to be inspired, to be encouraged and to relax and be restored…TOGETHER! Oh yes…we’ve prayed one another through the roller coaster of adoption—we’ve laughed together and cried together…and for the most part “together” meaning at the same time but on different parts of the country as we poured over one another’s blog stories and agency listservs. For a weekend in February–we’ll BE TOGETHER and I am so excited to spend that weekend with so many of you!!! SO…if you want to join us…visit the registration site: CREATED TO CARE WOMEN’S RETREAT Register now for the retreat–and reserving your room begins a week from today! Don’t worry–if you are able to register–we have more than enough rooms set aside for all registrants! (Is registrants even a word by the way?!) I am so excited to see what the Lord wants to do that weekend with all of us together!!! We were created to care for one another… We were created to care for our families… And we were created to care for orphans throughout the world. Join us as we come together because we were created to care together!!! I can’t WAIT!!! Oh February will not get here soon enough! P.S. If you missed the blog post I posted last night–you HAVE to read the crazy Korah story!!! And of course do a little dance to that song! It’s ITY’s favorite! quick question…do we pay the full amount to register or just a part of it? :0) I just registered!! YAY!! Cannot wait!!! 🙂 Just registered!!!! Soooo excited! I wish I lived closer, that sounds amazing:) I want to go sooooo bad!!! Trying to work it out 🙂 I can’t wait. It is going to be so much fun. Have you warned the lodge how loud we can be? Amy! Are you going?!?!? I cannot wait to meet you! Can you do a post on how the t-shirts run, if you know any more info on them? Would love to get them and wondering if they are unisex, preshrunk, etc. THanks! 🙂 So I have been reading your blog for months, and one of my other blog friends posted something about the retreat. So I very joking sent a link about it to my sister-in-law saying “In my dream world we would get to go to this retreat together.. would it be wonderful?”. So her and my mother-in-law actually got online and registered us for the retreat…surprise! I cried and was blown away, because I was totally joking! This is a huuuuuge blessing for me, so thanks for all you are doing for the retreat. I am waiting for our baby from Ethiopia and now I get to go on this retreat with the women in my family.. I have never felt so loved in excited, I really needed this blessing this week! THANK YOU THANK YOU! -Kerry I am a mom to 12 children, 10 through adoption. This is my heartbeat and I love to meet others who share in this journey of love. In HIS Grace, Teresa Rima. Okay…so Friday night we had LOTS of families over to our house…our sweet African Adoption families… SOOO…to entertain the kids on this perfect weather October night in the South…we set up screen-on-our-green… The kids LOOOOVED it! And we of course had to get the fire-pit going…FORRRR…you guessed it… And guess what THESE 3 couples have in common (minus Candy’s counterpart…Chad was taking care of their little guy!) Here is Frank with his new VBFF Miller Chaulk! FYI–if you help Frank with marshmellows (or any snack for that matter!) you are his new VBFF… Here Frankie-baby is begging Miller for JUST ONE MORE… And here Miller is trying to tell Frank he left his marshmellow in the fire for too long…(can you see how black it is?!) Isaac is ALWAYS a light-weight at our Africa Adoption parties and crashes early…but he has good reason. He has work to do early on Saturday morning! While his brother Frank’s job is ANYTHING to do with firemen, firetrucks or THOMAS! And this, my friends, is how Frankie-baby got dressed and ready to go to P’s soccer game!
Chillin in Christy’s lap… And lemme tell ya–we could have been THIS close to actually calling the fire department b/c during half time–our little fireman snuck away! I was feeding Isaac and all of the sudden we couldn’t find Frank. Someone shouted they saw him run in the woods…and sure enough…
Another dad making the exchange to Rico Suave… And daddy comforting Frankie baby. He was really just upset that his adventure had quickly come to an end! Then the focus was BACK on Parker man…who once again–kicked in the goals like a wild man!!! We are so proud of our little man!!! I love watching him celebrate with his buds after he kicks in a goal! And lemme tell ya…with a goalie AND a blocker–it isn’t easy to get it past them…but he does!!! ITY kickin’ it (literally) during the game… And I ADORE how my boys are buds and how Frankie baby comes to sit with P when he is on the bench taking a rest!
LAST BUT NOT LEAST…A CRAZY KORAH STORY!!! Okay…soooo–Sarah Titus let me know this week that she has sent over all the kits she received for Korah but we were still 30 short. I had 30 at my house (we still need more for Wiphan–but we are getting there!!!). Anyway, Sarah asked me if I could mail 30 kits to Nashville this week because she knew a group was going over. NOW…I’ll tell you–the one thing that is hard for me to do is to get to the post office with huge boxes!!! With two 1 year olds…it just sounds dreadful. SO–I will confess…I told the Lord in passing a few days ago that I didn’t feel like going to the post office. You know…just how you talk to Him throughout the day–but I knew these kits needed to get there asap!!! I was worried a bit they might not make it in time–and I just prayed they would when I hit the FedEx store (yes—no time for the post office…2-3 day insured delivery is calling for FedEx!) this week to ensure they got there in time. SOOO…here’s the God part–where you SEE how much the Lord cares for the orphans in Korah–how HE is in the details…and how He takes care of everything. SO…I’m here in my little town–4 hours South of Nashville where the “It’s a Girl Thing Pads and Holders” need to be in 3-4 days. I had just walked out of worship with my little man at church–and I was heading to KidZone to pick up the older ones. A sweet lady stops me in the hallway and asks me about Isaac as she remembered he was from Ethiopia–and right when we came home she told me that she had a daughter my age that had just gotten back from a mission trip in Ethiopia. SOOO…she tells me this morning that her daughter just happens to be visiting her TODAY. In fact, she is in the parking lot waiting on her. THEN she tells me that her daughter (in the parking lot) is gearing up to take another mission trip to Ethiopia. I ask her where she is going… “She’s going to Korah…with Project 61…they are delivering a bunch of stuff–like pads for this project called “It’s a Girl Thing”…” “REALLY?? Well, I do believe they are missing 30 kits to complete Korah’s project!” I tell her!!!! DO YOU THINK GOD CARES ABOUT THE DETAILS? DO YOU THINK GOD CARES DEEPLY FOR THE GIRLS OF KORAH THAT NEED THESE SUPPLIES?! As I told this sweet lady that I was one of the coordinators of the project and I had THE 30 other kits just around the corner from the church at my house–she flipped out and called her daughter to join our conversation inside! THEN, I hoped in her car and we headed to my house to get the rest of the kits while Rico Suave followed us home (I wanted to make sure she didn’t get lost getting to our house). We loaded up the 30 additional kits into her van…and we had SO MUCH FUN talking about all the connections we had…so many similiar friends in Nashville!!! We couldn’t stop laughing at how crazy it all was–and how she had JUST ENOUGH room left in her bins to fit these kits!!! SOOOOO…if you were a part of Korah’s “It’s a Girl Thing” project—YOUR KITS will arrive THIS THURSDAY to the girls!!! This sweet friend is actually taking them herself TO THEIR SCHOOL!!! HOW COOL IS THAT?! Ok…now to complete Wiphan’s “It’s a Girl Thing”! I am soooooo amazed at how God is in the details of EVERY moment in our lives when we open our hands and say use all I have Lord!!! JUST AMAZING!!! And the icing on my cupcake is I don’t have to look like a crazy lady pushing a huge box into the FexEx store with my foot with two 1 year olds on my hips!!! Do you REALIZE all the things that had to happen for this interaction to take place??? I was stalled after worship with Isaac to talk with Karen Loritts (our pastor’s wife) about leading a devotional at the adoption momma retreat…I’d need to be a few minutes late in picking up the kids from KidZone…the mom from Nashville would need to still be here…and her mom would need to be in the hall at KidZone at just the right time—and our shining star on my hip would be the one that reminded her to tell me her daughter was going to Ethiopia this week!!! I LOOOOOVE how God works…ALL on behalf of the orphans in Korah!!! AS IF the morning couldn’t have been ANY more beautiful—God made it even better!!! I had JUST finished holding back tears as I sang in worship with my precious Isaac on my hip “I am not forgotten…God knows my name!” These children are NOT forgotten!!! He knows them ALL by name!!! He will not leave nor forsake them…but people—here this…He may want to use US to let them physically see and know that they are NOT forgotten and that He knows their name!!! How will they know if we don’t tell them? How will they know if we don’t serve them?! They are not forgotten…and neither are YOU!? Can I get an AMEN?! BUT…isn’t this performance WAYYYY cuter?! AND on a sneak peak note…registration for the retreat will begin Monday at noon! Stay tuned!!! And please spread the word once we post it tomorrow!!! P.S. This is the version ITY likes to watch and we dance to! We like to break it down in the Young house!!! Wow!! TOTAL God moment, LOVE it! found you through Emily A’s blog roll. Loved your post and even those of your sweet friends. Particularly loved the Korah story. I love seeing His fingerprints. He is in the details-something we saw countless times in our adoption. Don’t you just love watching God work! Thanks for sharing such a great story…and all of the cute pics of the family, of course! i’m loving all the pics from the fellowship and the soccer game!!! and what an AMAZING Korah story! God is GOOD!!!! That Korah story… wow!!! I LOVE how God cares about the small things too. 🙂 Andrea! I am SO EXCITED that the kits are on their way! I will have to let all my “Panty Party” girls know our panties are on their way over the ocean!!! I REALLY want to be able to come to the retreat however I am curious about the cost? Could you get bk with me on the cost or is it on the registration page, I will ck there now! Thanks! bobi You go to Crawford’s church?? We’re at his son’s church in Memphis!! Small world 🙂 […] last Sunday when God worked out the details for me to run into someone who lives in Nashville who volunteers for Korah…in my little ole town in Georgia? WELL…here is my new precious friend Danielle feeding […] Have lots of fun to share from our world…survival from a WEEK last week with Rico Suave in Virginia (always wait to tell y’all after the fact!) Can you believe I made it!? THEN a FUN night with our African Family Fellowship…screen-on-the-green at our house + smores…soccer fun…and lots of pics to share! Workin’ on some pumpkin bread now—so here’s a sneak peak of our Fall fun with pillows that Laney and I made yesterday while the babies napped! The rest of the fun will have to come later in the weekend! Aren’t these fun…and best of all—we just used our scraps from the wreathe we made last week and 2 pillows from a couch…so they were FREE! I enjoy your crafty ways. I can totally appreciate the fun and work that goes along with making your own decor – I just wish that I had that talent and know-how. Looks great, Andrea! I LOVE it:) I’m SOOO proud of myself. I’ve never sewn but I’m getting pretty DARN good at sewing these cloth pads!!! YAY me… hehe That is SOOOO cute. And I am super impressed that you did an actual craft while your hubby was away! And not a glue-and-paper kind of craft either! Is that just burlap??? I was thinkin’ about making pillows with those but worried they would be WAY too scratchy. What do You think? ooooh so you went with that instead of the tablecloth? So cute! You’ll have to do a post sometime with tips on managing everything while your husband’s away. I know I could benefit since my hubby travels too! oh they’re GREAT! Care to share your Pumpkin Bread recipe. My 2 year old and I made Zucchini Bread a few weeks ago and I’ve been on the lookout for a yummy Pumpkin Bread one. |
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That is wonderful! I cannot wait to see what the Lord has in store for us! I just put a “link list” up if anyone wants to see who is going or add their name/website.
http://flitterbugsblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/who-going-link-up.html
Thank you Andrea for all of your hard work in setting this up!!!!
I just registered!!! YAY!!! I cannot wait… just hope to be officially in the AGCI program by then! And hopefully working on our dossier in February!!!! Now to find roomies!!! (:
I registered! So excited to meet you and get to know some adoptive Mamas!