The end of school marks a new beginning on so many different levels. Yes, it's an ending for some....yet a new chapter in the life of others. Although I am saddened by seeing my students and co-workers going in their own directions, I know it's only a new beginning for them. It reminds me of a song we used to sing "Friends are friends forever, if the Lord's the Lord of them, and a friend will not say never, 'cause the welcome will not end, though it's hard to let you go, in the Father's hands we know, that a lifetime's not too long.....to live as friends."
We're still waiting......waiting on God's perfect timing for our baby. Not much has changed with the adoption process since the last time I wrote a blog entry. Our FBI criminal background check and fingerprints should be back by June 15th. I can't believe it's been 3 months since we sent those in to the FBI. Our home study home visit is on June 10th. Oh, goodness.....that's next week! Right in the middle of our VBS! What a busy week! Chad will also be working part of the week so it looks like the MAJOR house cleaning falls on me. I think the only big things we need to have done prior to the home visit is to have the house as spotless as possible.....that means cleaning the carpets, cleaning the baseboards, finishing the painting in what will be the nursery, and overall a major cleaning of the house. Last night we accomplished cleaning the basement----lady bugs are so annoying!
There have been some changes in my life along with preparing for our adoption. As most of you know, my precious grandmother, "Nanno," passed away on Mother's Day. It was such a bittersweet time to know that even though I lost her, she went home to spend Mother's Day with her own mother and with my daddy. It's been almost a month since she passed, it still seems surreal that she's gone. I thought she would live forever. Nanno was my last living grandparent and link to my daddy....it's been tough to accept the fact she's gone. She was such a strong woman, I pray that the Lord will give me just an ounce of her strength and wisdom in my lifetime. Here she is at Christmas a few years ago.....
I also wanted to share a couple of things from our adoption profile book with you. Here are a couple of the pictures from our book. Let me tell you all the trouble we had with printing this book....we decided to print the book ourselves, but our printer kept messing up. Finally, after spending about $100 on ink....we got it printed-all 8 copies! Then, the very next week lightening ran in on our computer and it crashed! Praise the Lord, He was watching over us so we could get those printed. Anyway, enough rambling.
Keep praying everyone! I can feel your prayers for us going up....the Lord works in mysterious ways and I feel His touch in our adoption journey. I'll try to keep a better blog this summer to let everyone know the status.
Habakkuk 2:3
