Fundraising Success!

Wow! Our fundraiser was a huge success!!! Thanks to our amazing family and friends we raised $2100 to bring Sweet T home! Praise the Lord! And not only did we raise a lot of money, we had FUN! The soups were great, the friends were great, the weather was great, everything was just great! God did a beautiful job in orchestrating a beautiful event for us.

We have decided to start the dossier process over. We both feel at peace about this decision. Thank you for your prayers. Our prayer is to have our I800A done by Christmas. (Fingerprinting) All of our kids medicals are now up to date so our homestudy should be completed very soon.

We are still selling T-shirts for those who are interested! Our cookbooks should be done the week before Thanksgiving. We are working hard! The recipes in there are amazing. I cannot wait to have the book in my hands. You may also donate for Sweet T's puzzle by visiting our Go Fund Me page. For every $5 you donate, we will put your name on a puzzle piece for Sweet T to have forever.

Thank you for all the prayers!

What's goin' on 'round these parts you ask?

First of all, thank you for asking! ;-) Let's update on Peter first.

PETER READ TWO STORIES THIS WEEK!!

I'm just a bit excited! This is huge news for a young man that was told he could not learn and did not amount to much. He has been home almost 10 months, had no language skills whatsoever, and we started from the beginning. I cannot tell you how it thrills my heart to know that he is learning so well. Instead of saying, "I can't do it" all the time now, I have heard "I can do it!" several times this week. He still apologizes when he makes a mistake in school and it frustrates me but I get frustrated only because I know he is doubting himself and believing the lies he's heard over the years. Well guess what? My boy is smart!!! We aren't believing your lies anymore satan! 

Sweet T news (dude I almost typed her name here! oops!) I talked with our fabulous caseworker Elyse this afternoon and we received some news. Some good and some ok. We have been working very hard to process our paperwork quickly so we could reuse our dossier. We had been told by someone that it would save us loads of money and tons of time. Well, for us, it's been crazy. Non stop crazy. Our homestudy case worker Jenna was super woman and worked her tail off for us. One of the issues is that Abi needs a well check visit. Her Dr. changed clinics to somewhere that does not take our insurance and the boys Dr. cannot see her until December. Hmm...still working out some details on this. It doesn't seem like a big deal but it sort of is because we do not want to pay $100 for a check up. But $100 is pennies in the long run. So, we need that done. And then we will be able to schedule our I800 fingerprints. That is a 70 day wait right now. January 14th, which is when our dossier expires is 73 days away. Hmmm...and there is nothing they can do to move it up. Yep, this would be the biggest deal in reusing our dossier. Elyse shared with us today that it does not seem likely that Sweet T will be moved from the special needs list. Why is this a big deal? Because you cannot reuse your dossier for special needs children. (new C*ina law) So, now we must decide how we are going to proceed. We feel strongly that this is our daughter. We still cannot lock her in. If we decide to proceed with reusing the dossier, it could prolong it more. We would appreciate prayers for wisdom.

Tomorrow is our biggest fundraiser! Again, we will not be doing many fundraisers this time around so come and join us!! Remember, you can still order t-shirts! Thank you for all your prayers, love and support! We love you all!