Happy Thanksgiving

Things are moving slowly with our Adoption process, I've deiced to not look at waiting child profiles until after our Dossier is approved. It would be way to hard to become attached to a profile and then find out your Dossier is not approved.

We've got some homework to complete from Holt and are currently waiting for our book to come in from the library. I'm so excited to have homework for this, there is so much that we need to know and so much we don't even know we need to know. I just cannot wait to get this all completed and bring our child(ren) home!

Today was Thanksgiving and we have so much to be thankful for! Our Jobs, our house, our friends & family!! I can't begin to imagine where I would be with out Brian and our daughters. I know God has blessed our family so much and even when things get so stressful I need to remember to let it go and take His hand and walk in Faith. I struggle with this very much, but I know He knows my heart and that is truly amazing to me.

Today we all said what we were thankful for before we ate, Zoe, thankful for her class pet Ozzy, Amelya, she was thankful for herself...we'll work on that next year she's only 3!! Olivia was thankful for her grandparents and mom & dad. Brian was thankful for his family, and I as well was thankful for my family. I know we have many ups & downs but through it all we find support and comfort through anything, God has blessed our family!!

Kassy

Our First Social Worker Conference Call

We had a great conference call with a social worker from Holt Wednesday night! The worker emailed Kassy early in the day and Kassy, being as excited as she is, called her right away asking if today (Wednesday) would work for her and we were lucky enough that it did.

She called us back around 7:30 and it was great! We got to bounced all kinds of questions and concerns we had off her and she was awesome answering most of them even before we could get them out! We have pretty much decided that a sibling group is what we are looking at. Kassy brought up a great point during the call of how much it will honor the children and make them fit in better if they have someone with them that looks like them and talks like them especially initially. It is also a great way to honor their heritage and country they leave behind if we take siblings. They raised some concerns about getting a child that was close in age to one of the girls, and that is something we didn’t really consider. It was a great conversation and Holt seems like they will be a great fit for us!

I’m excited! I don’t know how else to put it! Lately I have had a big urge to have a boy. I love my girls but the fact is every dad wants a son. It doesn’t matter to me what he looks like, what really matter is that he is mine! After some clear signs this week, I do believe that if I’m going to have a son, this is how God has planned it for me! So, how can I not be excited for the plan God has put forward? This is the way God has asked us to continue spreading our love and when God is on our side, I know we cannot fail!!!

Brian

We've chosen Holt!!

It has been something that was not a rush decision but well thought out and we have decided to start our adoption journey with Holt International. I will be making calls to ask a few questions but as of now we will be only looking at waiting children in sibling groups!! Please continent to pray for us and our family and our child or children in Africa!!

Kassy