Long Week.....

It has been a really long week for me. I am sure it has been a long week for you too.

 

Today we went to the Tulsa Zoo and met my sister Kristina, her husband Shawn, Tanner my nephew and Rebecca my neice. Kristina is pregnant with Abigail who will be born in November just a few days before her sister Rebecca's 1st birthday.

 

We had a really good time! Tanner could quite possibly be the love of my life. Now that he  is 2 and talking and communicating with us he is an absolute joy.

 

He likes to talk to Aunt Gidgit on the phone and loves to give me kisses!

I so enjoyed getting to play with him today and holding him again.

He only gets to come to see his mommy everyother weekend and we see him even less. So I cherish every minute I get with him.

Well It is getting really late and My brother Styrlin  is here for the night and I have to get up and take him to Drill in the morning . I also have to finish baking muffins for church in the morning.

 

God Bless you and Keep you .... Please don't forget to pray for my child(ren).

 

~Love ya~

Changes

Well I am finally learning more about this whole process and I am trying to make some changes to the blog so please bare with me!

 

Take care,

Gidgit

What a Week!

Well as you can see I have not posted in a week. I have been really busy. My Branch Manager was on vacation this past week and I was in the office on my own. Parts of the week were utterly boring, but others kept me thinking and on my toes. I have discovered that I know more about my job than I realized.

Well Saturday I went shopping with Holly Elise and we did girl stuff! It was fun kind of a mother-daughter thing only I'm just a surrogate mom for now.
Well anywayFriday night Ernie took us to Olive Garden ( only one of my favorite restaurants)! Usually we get GREAT service, but for some reason we got stuck with the worst waiter. He was so slow... we sat at our table for over 20 minutes before he even brought salad and breadstix. We got our appatizer before our salad. That was most certainly a first for me.
Sarah you would have been appaled!

Anyway the food was good as usual, and we came home and watched Dirty Dancing:Havanah Nights! Good movie by the way,and Swayze is in the movie! I really liked it..

We are still trying to get our medical insurance worked out because the last of our paper work is Physicals! All three of us have to have one and they are very expensive with out insurance and we really can not afford them. So please pray that we are able to obtain some medical insurance so that we can have our child home soon.

God Bless you and please check out some of the new scripture I have posted.

Some People!

You know some people are just not real considerate! I love my friends and all but I just don't know why everyone thinks they can live with me!

Do they not realize that we are in the middle of an Adoption here?!
I am so not willing to be helpful right now I am trying to prepare my home for my children! I want my house to be ready! I don't need other people living in my house!

I know it is a good thing to help people in need but who is going to help me when I'm in need?!
I mean I need things for my kids, I need to get some bills paid, I need a new van!
Why do people think that I have "come live with me" written on my forehead!

I know the bible tells us to be kind and loving and giving but, I am so tired of giving and letting people live with me. I just want my house to myself for a few months or even weeks before we have a child(ren) placed with us!

OKay =, okay, I need to stop whining! I am just getting so stressed!

Part of the Process

Well apparently it is part of the process to feel like an emotional blob!
I have been reading "Adoption Is A Family Affair! What Relatives and Friends Must Know" {again}. It really gives insight to the things that hopeful adoptive parents and their achildren go through!

A small Exerpt:
"The unique concept of bringing together the needs and the desires of two sets of parents (most often previously unknown to one another) on behalf of the greater needs of a child is a huge task. no matter whether the birth and adoptive parents will meet one another forge an ongoing relationship or they will choose confidentiality, a great deal of very intimate information will change hands. Far more oftern than not adoption parents will have access to significant medical and social information about their child. They may learn details about family background or social history. They may have access to information about the birthfamily's medical history and mental health problems and learning disabilities. The story occasionally includes difficult details about rape, or incest, or infidelity, or imprisonment, or substance abuse.
This is very private stuff ."

I think I will be posting some exerpts from this book on occasion for all to learn more. After my goal is to educate the Adoption is NOT Second rate!

First Day of School

Well today is Holly Elise's first day of School! She was excited as well as scared. As we walked to the doors I said a little prayer asking God to put angels in around her to protect her, and asked Him to let there be at least ONE other Christian there for her to befriend.

Please Pray for Elise today! She is so terribly shy and she needs to make some friends. The Holy Spirit is noticable on her and I know she will be a good wittness!

As far as the adoption, well..... We turned in some more paper work, now we just have to get our physicals taken care of. We had them last year but if it takes longer than a year you have to renew them.

Well I'm off to work and I'll post more later!
May God richly Bless your day!

Talk About Tears!

I was reading some posts on adoption.com's fourms.. Well it seems many other adoptive families are getting little to no support from their friends and family!

I just Cried! I was always raised that when a child came into a family { no matter how} you celebrated... weither it was #1 or #12 it dosen't matter!

I pray that my family and friends can see beyond the fact that I am not giving birth to my children and will support us in our journey, as well as love and support my children....

I know that some of you that read this site are my family and I want to Thank you for your support as God has given you a right spirit toward adoption!

If you will read down to Getting There I post my favorite scripture you will see why adoption is not "beneath" birth!

God Bless you all and I love you!

WoooooHoooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well it is done! We finished the Home Visit half of the homestudy! It was not quite as scarry as I thought it was going to be! I was really nervous last night and had trouble sleeping.
When I finally got to sleep I had a dream about my children...... I still can't see their little faces but God will fill those in when it is time. Any way, we were in Texas{I know this because I could see the Welcom to Texas sign}, and we were going to meet our children for the first time.
It was Me, Ernie, and Elise, and we were in our van driving into a town, I'm not quite sure what town it was but I'm pretty sure I have never been there before. So as we were driving we came up to a big yellow house.... I'm guessing this is the one they live in .... as we pulled in I felt led by the Holy Spirit to pray for my childrens foster parents. So we paused to pray for them to have peace about letting go of my babies.
When we got inside our children KNEW who we were. I mean it was like God had told them we were their "Forever Family". Then as my little girl ran to hug me I woke up!

Talk about a crazy dream! So tell me what you think ... I really would like an oppinion or two....

I am happy to say that our Home Study should be complete by the first week in November and after that our paperwork will be turned over to the Child search department for placement.

Please pray that everything goes smoothly and all our paperwork is completed in a timely manner. We are praying for actual placement by the first of the new year.

Thank you all for your prayers!

God Bless you all!