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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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Broken Feet, Psych Evals, and Visas....oh my!

Well I had a fantabulously eventful week. Minus the fantabulous part. I fell in the Target parking lot (gee that's not embarrassing at all!) and I messed up my right foot pretty bad. Luckily I don't need surgery but I do have a knee high boot cast I get to rock for 6 weeks, so that's awesome (or not...). My kids call it my robo-foot...and they think it's awesome. My husband likes to boom "FE FI FO FUM..." when I clammer down the hallway with my not-so-quiet boot. Aren't the men in my life lovely?


In other, non injury related news, we are crawling ever closer toward getting back to Russia to be with our sweetie. We are fully funded through trip 2 (court trip)!! We're working on getting funded for our 3rd and last trip. I'm taking applications for company on that last trip. Plane tickets are just too expensive for us to justify fundraising for BOTH of us to go pick up our little lady, but if one of my friends would like to go with me...I'll cover hotel and food if you'll cover your plane ticket!! Serious inquiries only. ;)


We finished our psych eval, so one more thing out of the way, we paid for our visas, we mailed a check to our agency, we downloaded our state background check forms, and we made appointments for our physicals. I have more paperwork to do and lots to get notarized, but I'm REALLY hoping to get it all done and get back to Russia by the end of July!


Upcoming FUNdraiser:


YARD SALE! It's June 29-June30 at my place, 8am-? We have TONS of stuff...no really, we look like hoarders and I can't and won't drag this stuff back into my house so please, come out and buy it and help Kenzi come home! We'll have a bake sale and lemonade and ice cold soda/bottled water. Our oldest Dylan wants to help his sister come home so make a fuss over his bake sale please. <3 


I'm going to have a craft table set up, a lot of what you see here and on my facebook page will be available to buy at the yard sale. We'll also have balloons for the kiddos! 


Hope to see y'all there!!!


<3

4 comments:

  1. Why didn't I realize your garage sale is the same weekend I'll be out of town for my Girls' weekend in Memphis? Ugh - I'm scared to send my husband alone - he has NO restraint. Not that you'd mind that...!

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  2. Well, you hurting your ankle in the Target parking lot is less pathetic than my injury history this past few months... in April, I sliced open my finger while peeling an EZ-peel orange. Yes. EZ-peel. Sliced. Bright idea to use a knife to get the stem thingy at the top out... and then... not long after that... I had to go to urgent care, wound up with a scratched cornea and antibiotic eyedrops for a week... but wait until you get how I scratched it... I was eating chips... and a piece of a chip... flew up and landed in my eye. Had to call a friend to watch the kids so I could go get it taken care of. Yep, I'm that pathetic. So there you go, at least you're not alone!

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  3. i hope your foot gets better very fast and that your fundraisers goes amazingly well. Dylan you are such a great big brother sell lots of lemonade!

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  4. Praying for swift healing for your foot and for a fabulous yard sale! (As well as a traveling companion for this ONCE IN A LIFETIME opportunity!) God Bless!

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