I'm a married mother of "3 1/2" ;) and the loves of my life are my faith and my family. I've grown in my faith over the last two years since my daughter's adoption, she is the reason why I started this blog in the first place, and I'm so looking forward to watching God move in my heart, and the hearts of others who follow along on our journey towards bringing home one of "the least of these". Special needs adoption is my mission field, whether I'm adopting a child myself, or helping other families get funded, or shouting for waiting children who need families to find them, and I hope you'll come along for the ride and watch what God can accomplish when we say yes to His command to care for the orphan, and go out into the world to be His hands and feet.

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My Better Half

My Better Half

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Before Adoption

Before Adoption

Two Years After Adoption

Two Years After Adoption

Friday, January 13, 2012

Small update!

Hi everyone!!! I'm not going to have much time to update today because my house is in DESPERATE need of a good cleaning, but I just wanted to pop on and say THANK YOU to those of you who have donated lately! I'll be doing another "wristband run" at the post office tomorrow morning :)

We have everything we need for our homestudy minus a few letters we're waiting on from friends and family. David and I are having our physicals done Monday...so at that point, I just we just...wait! Our case worker is awesome so I'm really not even nervous about her coming over on the 28th, which is a real blessing!

I haven't updated the finance part of the blog lately so I'll just put the upcoming expenses here.

Homestudy: $1450
Caseworker mileage: $250
Agency: $2000
Homestudy review: $600
USCIS (plus fingerprinting): $1000ish

and (possibly) we might need to pay $2600 more to our agency for dossier prep, etc., I'm not sure if it's due NOW or if it's due after the homestudy review is complete...in any event it's due relatively soon.

So, there ya have it! This is why we're so grateful to everyone who's fundraising for us! We couldn't bring Natasha home without you <3

Much love,
Cilla

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