If you...you might have a big family!

If you take up all the chairs in the waiting at the dentist office...you might have a big family!

If you go through a whole loaf of bread not in a week, but in one breakfast...you might have a big family!

If it takes you 15 plus minutes to schedule yearly physicals around everyone's schedule...you might have a big family!

If you feel like the house is quiet and peaceful with only 3 kids home...you might have a big family!

If you find the buzz of the orthodontists tool peaceful compared to the craziness at your house...you might have a big family!

If you have a laundry basket filled to the top with lonely socks trying to find their match...you might have a big family!

When you go to purchase toothbrushes and the store doesn't carry enough different colors so your kids won't mix them up...you might have a big family!

When you call into the medical clinic and they cannot find your child's name because you accidently gave them one of your other child's birthdates...you might have a big family!

If in church you could easily take up one whole pew with just your family...you might have a big family!

If people stare at you at the grocery store when your cart is full of gallons of milk...you might have a big family!

If when people ask you how many kids you have and give you that shocking look when you answer them, or you seriously think about lying or you have to stop and count...you might have a big family!

Where there is great love, there are always miracles-Willa Cather

Lord, we pray for our little miracle....

My cousin Jessie, emailed me this wonderful link please check it out! It is a great adoption story. 

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Prayer Request!

A special prayer request for one of the families from our church who are so close to getting their little guy home! Please pray that they may get answers to all their questions and requests and that they may know soon when exactly they get to go! Thanks so much!

Officially Approved!

We received our home study in the mail today! And yes it had a stamp on it

Approved!!

Here are some new pics our neighbor Lori took for our album, showing off our NC gear!

I have not posted lately because there is not much going on around here that has to do with our adoption.  We are getting ready to get some surgeries out of the way and get healthy again.  And get some Christmas shopping in.

We had a little prayer answered this week with our Taya Joy.  We have been praying about moving Taya downstairs so that the baby can have her room.  We prayed that it would go smoothly and that God would show us when to make this transition.  Well, she decided this week that she was ready to go downstairs all by herself, "we need to make room for my baby brother,"she said! How cute! We were worried all for nothing, we thought we would have to get her ready to move when actually she was ready before we were! I think it was way harder on mommy and daddy then on Taya.  Nyiah was excited to have a roommate too!

We did do a little Christmas shopping and of course picked up some North Carolina gear for our little guy, some NC onesies and booties that we couldn't resist!  How fun.

We are looking into getting the nursery painted during Christmas vacation and then we will count down the days until our family vacation the first week of January.  After that we have decided we will get our book done and get it out!

Please continue praying for us that we will continue to get ready for our little man and that God will guide us to our son.  Thanks as always for all the encouragement!

Sitting in the middle of class today, I got an email from Heidi our social worker. She let me know our Home Study is complete and is now being reviewed by our agency New Horizons. Yeah! What a big relief! We are excited to have all the paper work and running around done (or so we thought!) Heidi reminds me that we can now start the process of applying for grants/scholarships. So here we go again! But with that thought comes the thought of anticipation and excitement that we are getting closer by the minute! We just continue to pray for God's guidance and His constant presence as we decide when to put our book out. We have started working on it and I am getting the pictures ready to go...I am of course having lots of fun with that!

Please keep the prayers coming, and thank you to everyone who has been so encouraging to us throughout this process.

Especially those who are there for my little breakdowns(you know who you are!!)

Through lots of prayer we have decided to go through a North Carolina agency that sister's with our New Horizons agency.  We are thrilled that God has led us to know that is where our little guy will come from! Here is the link to their blog and website, great sites, if you have time check them out!

Christian Adoption Agency Blog- this blog includes pictures of matched families!