15 Months of Being on the Waitling List

This past Saturday, April 28th, marked 15 months of being on the waiting list for our baby.  We had a productive month in paperwork stuff for BCS. We had our adoption physicals re done this month and are currently working on paperwork to update our fingerprints. We should be receiving our updated homestudy any day now. When we receive it and send it off, we should be traveling to WV to have our fingerprints done electronically again.  Hard to believe that its been 18 months since we did that the first time!  Unfortunately this summer we will begin the long process of updating and redoing most of our dossier too due to everthing expiring..... I slowly getting geared up to conquer that thick notebook again. 

We have had a good month of celebrating my birthday in Roanoke, seeing family, celebrating Jesus Resurection with our new church family www.facebook.com/RiverChurchVa, loving on our precious nephews and our neice and Jared has spent lots of time in Gods beautiful outdoors! I dont have pictures of all our fun adventures but here are just a few pictures of Jared enjoying the river.  I cant wait to join him on the river when it gets a little warmer and I can get a tan!

If I am really honest with you, this journey is getting really long and some days  I feel like a part of my heart is on another continent and it makes waiting so much harder! I guess its normal for a mother to be to long to meet her sweet baby!   I am sooooo grateful to be called to this journey and that we will have a son or daughter when this is all over with!  I keep telling myself that all of this waiting and paperwork will be worth it! Last week God reminded me the following......

Praise the Lord that he is handling all the details of this process. It spoke volumes to my heart that I just need to trust him and his perfect hand in this process.  He already knows how this whole process is going to play out and I need to quit trying to control and plan out how I think things should go.   So if you are one of our prayer warriors reading this, can you pray that my mind would think more and more like Jesus and less like my own?  I want to be his hands and feet and carry out this mission that he has so graciously given to us with him receiving all the glory. 

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised Hebrews 10:36