Okay, we started our day with a visit to our pastor, and he was totally encouraging of our plans to adopt! He prayed for the girls, us and our time with our parents this afternoon. That was step one...he also asked us to gather as much information that we can about Reece's Rainbow and make a dvd presentation on the children that are available for adoption so we can present this to our church family. Tony will be working on a sermon about adoption to present to the congregation... and we may begin an adoption ministry at our church! That was amazing in itself, but...
The most amazing thing of all was that we went to visit my parents this afternoon, we just stopped in, my grandmother was there with them to share in the news of our adoption plans, and we told them! It went over okay, which is what we had hoped. They had the few questions that we thought they would, and we were able to answer them, and they thought the girls were so cute. I'm sure that when we receive our information after paying the fee that they will be just as much in love with them as we already are! And my grandmother seemed happy that she would be a great grandmother (Bopche, she's polish) again! I feel blessed that God gave us peace enough to tell them and He helped things go very smooth...and we are sooo EXCITED!
We also have a Glitterbug Gold Party planned for February 20th. We are going to make it a Birthday Party for the twins! We are just praying for a larger venue for this event because we are hoping that A LOT of people will come, we are spreading it out as an all day event so everyone that wants to come can anytime they want.
Please be in prayer for us as we look for a large enough place to hold the party and for most, if not all, of the promise fee to be provided on that day so we can pay it on the twins birthdate, February 27th! Don't worry girls, mommy and daddy are working on it! :)
A blog post ten years later...
1 year ago
JoEllen,
ReplyDeleteI am so very happy for you that you were able to tell your parents and Grandmother. I'm sure that is a huge relief to have that done. I will be praying for you to get those $$$'s needed to make the promise fee by the girls' birthdays...how sweet would that be?!!!
I can't tell you how relieved we are to have that behind us! whew! We showed them your article and they were amazed at how Grace and Bella look alike!
ReplyDeleteToday just seemed like one HUGE blessing between our pastors reaction down to our family's reaction. Now to bring a blessing to those precious girls who have waited so long for a family!
Thanks so much Paula, for your prayers, friendship and words of encouragement! They mean so much to us...