Garage Sale!

Hi everyone!


Well, I figured it was time for another update since we had our big garage sale on Saturday! I am wishing that I had taken a picture of all the things we had for sale!! Thanks to the generosity of several of our friends (though there were several things that were from our home as well), we had a bunch of stuff to sell! Our goal had always been to raise between $300-$400 in the garage sale, and our grand total was $449! What a huge blessing! That will definitely go a long way since our adoption will cost around $14,000 with all of the different fees and travel expenses. We cannot begin to express the gratitude that we have towards all the people who donated, came to the sale and those who prayed for us! It was a beautiful, warm, sunny day, and we had a steady stream of customers all day!

We also have scheduled our home study for this Friday! Over the last few months, we have been installing smoke detectors, mounting a fire extinguisher, and making sure that our home will pass all of the safety standards. It has definitely been a fair amount of work! Joe's work has been a little bit unpredictable as far as schedule, so we are really praying that he will get confirmation that he will have the day off either today or tomorrow. It is all in God's hands! I have also been filling out more paperwork (yay! not...) since our social worker has let us start on the next steps of the process so we can progress more quickly. I have most of it completed, though there are a few things that I cannot submit until after the home study is completed. This week will be full of cleaning and making sure that everything is ready for Friday! We are so excited!

All in all, it has been a VERY busy few weeks! We have been very blessed! I'll try to update the blog after our home study on Friday, so keep a look out! :)