We have now had our homestudy and are now focusing our time on the dossier. Our goal is to be in Ukraine by November and bring our girl home by Christmas. Our garage sale was this weekend as well. We profited 15 hundred dollars. Not as much as we would have liked but more than we started with!! The next event is a Chili supper....fun stuff. I am going to take pics so that our daughter can see how much the community wanted her home!! This has truly been a humbling experience and I can't wait to see what God has in store for us next.

As most know, an international adoption is not the cheapest thing in the world but you cannot put price on love!! With that being said there are a few of us AP moms hosting a rummage sale/carnival at the Pleasant View Church on Saturday, August 22nd. Time to be determined at a later date. I have had a great response from family, friends and neighbors which have been donating items for th garage sale. It is just one of the things I am doing to keep my mind off of the time spent waiting for paperwork to be completed and forms to be approved. We are just in the early stages of this process and I am already going crazy!! I get to speak to my little sweetie tommorow @ the orphanage. I can call every two weeks!! She understands nothing I say, and I understand nothing she says but it doesn't seem to matter. We can hear the love in each others voices and that is all that seems to matter. She says "Hello Mamma, I love you" and this is all I need to understand at this point.

Todd and I have been married for almost 24 years and have raised two beautiful children who are turning in to some pretty amazing men. We have recently decided to add to our family by adoption. We are very excited but scared also. God is sending us on this journey and we are just along for the ride!! We turned in our homesudy paperwork and are waiting on ou homestudy which will be on Thursday, August 22, 2009. It is just a "hurry up and wait" game that we just have to play in order to get our daughter back home