Hello there! I’ve
been meaning to update the blog for a while but two things keep stopping me.
1) Sheer busy-ness:
parenting a two year old, Youth for Christ, selling Wildtree, grant
writing, MOPS, running, need I go on?
2) Always wondering if I’ll have something new and
significant to add in a couple days.
Most of the summer Clint and I worked on our home study in
one way or another. We would get our
education done together at night after Mae had gone to sleep. As a psychology major in college I found
topics like abandonment issues and stages of adoption-related grief very
interesting. For Clint it was a bit more
of a challenge, but he took it all in stride and did great through all of it. During this time we were also filling out stacks
of paperwork and going to various places to get specific documents signed. Along the way, we have had a lot of help from
friends and neighbors such as our neighbor Sandy who we discovered is a notary public. That saved us a lot of time and inconvenience
as most of our documents had to be notarized.
What a huge help! Also, if I had
this to do over again I think I would print off a lot of labels with
Pauquette’s address on it. As time went
on, I ended up writing their address over and over on envelopes that were given
to different government agencies and departments to send documents in for our
home study to be completed.
Ideally, now that the home study is completed, we would select
several agencies that we want to work with for a child placement and send in
our family profile. Then we would wait
for the much anticipated call from the agency that we had been picked by a
birth-mother. The Lord has had different
plans and is placing another obstacle in our journey, a financial one. We thought if we just kept plugging away and
saving, that we’d be able to send our profile to at least one agency with a
lower fee before the end of 2014. When I
called Brian at Pauquette’s to share our plan, he informed me that the first
potential agency to which we would send our profile had raised its rates above
what we can afford, and was no longer working with them. From the very beginning of this process Clint
and I decided that it is best for us to wait to submit our profile until we know
for sure we have the money to pay for the full adoption. We know that the emotional strain of being
placed with a birth-parent and then not having the finances to back it up would
be horrible on our end, and potentially on the birth-parent as well. So here we are saving and waiting, waiting
and saving. I feel like in this waiting
process I am learning so much about the Lord’s character. There are times when I have said to Him “Why
isn’t this happening faster? I thought
this was Your will for my family. I want
my baby to be home.” The response I
usually get is “I am enough, it will happen on My time.” How can I argue with that?
Prayer points:
-patience for us
-favor by the people who will be potentially selecting us to
receive adoption grants
-for the birth parents of our future child and health for
the child
-that we would be wise in our spending
How you can help:
-pray for us
-make a delicious meal.
Buy Wildtree products or host a Wildtree party. Twenty percent of all sales go into our
adoption fund. Thank you to everyone who
has already purchased products. For more
information or to order go to www.mywildtree.com/lizgosse
-buy a piece of our puzzle and be part of our
story. See previous blog posts for more
information
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