Bethany On TV

Just received an email that our adoption agency, Bethany of Indianapolis, will be on tv. For those of you who have cable here is more information and the schedule:

“I’m Having Their Baby” follows would-be moms as they make the most difficult decision of their lives – whether or not to place their babies for adoption. They want better lives for their unborn children and brighter futures for themselves. The cameras follow these women in these docu-series as they search for potential adoptive parents, make their birth and transfer plans and ultimately struggle to go through with their decision.

Thanks to the excellent work of several Bethany branch offices in the last year, 6 of the 12 stories being told are Bethany adoption stories with no other agency having more than one story! The TV show worked hard to not let the show impact any expectant parent's decision to parent or place their child for adoption, but they only filmed women in their final trimester who were very seriously considering adoption. In the end, 10 of the women chose to place for adoption while 2 chose to parent. Here is the schedule of when each Bethany adoption story will be aired.

Below is a list of the episodes of the Oxygen show which will air beginning at 11 PM Eastern/10 PM Central:

July 23 - Features 2 Bethany stories from FL and GA
July 30 - Features 1 Bethany story. The birth mom is Mariah and her counselor was Katie Weber of IN
August 6 - Features 1 Bethany story from the state of WA
August 13 - Features 1 Bethany story. The birth mom is Brandalynn and her counselor was Irene Evans of IN
August 27 - Features 1 Bethany story from VA

8 Years Of Bliss

This week we celebrated 8 wonderful years of marriage. Although we're in the middle of a No Spend month, we were still able to thoroughly enjoy the day with gift cards. We saw the new Spider Man movie, ate (and ate!) at the Olive Garden and then had yogurt at the local Sweet and Swirly.

We really do enjoy spending time together and consider each other our best friends. It was so much fun sitting over lunch talking about how this would probably be our last anniversary with just the two of us, so we had better enjoy it.

I am so excited to be a family, but it was really nice to sit together and pretend that the rest of the world doesn't exist. I just love that man.

DesignBomb

Hi everyone! I'm sorry I haven't updated as quickly as I would have liked, but we've had a very busy week.

We are expecting our home study approval early next week and with that comes the dreaded $7,800 bill that we've been telling you about. Derek and I have been praying that God move large financial shaped mountains because there was no way we could do it. We had run out of options- there was no more savings account, no more hours at work, no more side jobs available, and we were losing steam.

We decided to try another Baby Blitz where we give it all up to Him and just be available for whatever He calls us to this week, and to say the least...it's been incredible!

It started with Derek selling some action figures, and then an unexpected check for some yard sale items we had previously sold, and then we received a beautiful donation (thank you!). And then came the button sales....oh the buttons.....

Derek has a 1 inch button company on facebook called DesignBomb and this week it blew up! A friend of a friend spread the word that we could do buttons for a 31 National Conference and let me tell you, those 31 ladies are crazy for anything that says 31. Through those orders, we have been able to raise over $500. Never thought we'd fund an adoption through 1 inch buttons, but what a blessing it has been!

You thought that was the end of Baby Blitz? Tsk. Tsk.

Yesterday I opened the mail and we received a large check from our past insurance company as a refund from the latest insurance laws they passed. Unbelievable.

Our week is not done and God has already blessed us with over $800 in unexpected funds. It's such an honor to know that when we cry out to Him (man, was there a lot of crying), He not only listens, but moves.