Wednesday, September 26, 2012

In The Mail and Waiting

We have worked so hard and so long on getting paperwork complete!
Last week we sent almost our entire collection of 
dossier documents
(twenty documents to be exact), 
to be state certified.  
It really felt like we put a chunk of our hearts in the mail.  
Our little girl's future was put in an envelope and sent off away from home.  
I just checked the tracking information and found out that all of the documents had been received by the California Department of State.
Once they are all certified, they will send them back to us and
then we send them to the Ch*nese Embassy here in CA to be authenticated.
Then they can be sent off to CH*NA and we get a Log In date!

Also off on the same day, was our application to immigrate our precious little one 
and give her US citizenship.  
So, another chunk of us was mailed to Homeland Security.  
They will hopefully approve our application quickly 
and give us appointments for ANOTHER set of fingerprinting 
for all four of us 
(Connor and Christopher need to be screened also because they are 
considered adults living in our home.).
That application was delivered also!  

More waiting.
More waiting.
More waiting.
And
more waiting.

I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope;
my soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.
Psalm 130:5-6


Sunday, September 2, 2012

Loaves and Fishes


We have had amazing results with our garage sales.  
God just seems to multiply what has been given to us -- it is really amazing.
The first couple of sales we had some pretty big ticket items, 
and were tickled to make $700 - $800 each time we had one.

So, you can imagine our delight yesterday when we sold $850 worth of things 
and our biggest ticket item was $40!!
Really!
And, at the end of the day when it was time to put things back in the garage, 
we coule barely fit it all in.
It really does seem like loaves and fishes!

So, next weekend, we will be at it again.  
In fact, more things were just dropped off this afternoon.
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