Everything is His

Since turning in our preliminary app and waiting for our first meeting, I've been considering our next step. If you know me, you know that I hate being unprepared and unorganized. Life goes so much smoother when you've researched the situation and prepared yourself as much as possible. During this short "down time", I believed the next step was to tackle fundraising to get a head start.

So we don't become overwhelmed, Derek and I have decided to take it one financial goal at a time and our next one is $8,000 for our home study process. This includes everything from the background checks, CPS, fingerprinting, legal fees, home study, and everything else needed to say that we would provide a safe and healthy environment for our child. For some reason they don't accept your word. :o)

As we've thought and prayed over this goal, we always knew two things- we can't do it on our own and if God has kicked open doors so far, He won't leave us hanging now!

Fundraising is hard work. It takes creativity and sacrifice, but with every item sold or hour worked, I feel closer to our child. I'm starting to understand the sacrificial love a mother has. I look at things with a new filter- is it more important for me to keep this or hold my baby? And I guess holding our little tater tot has become so important to us that we have sold 1/3 of our possessions to raise funds.  Poor Derek is pretty worried because if it's not living then it's up for grabs.  And if someone would be willing to pay for a cat or two, I would gladly accept!

While we've been hard at work (me selling and Derek locking his precious things away), so has God. We received a call today from our tax preparer telling us that our taxes have been amended and we can expect $4000 back. Yes, you just read that...want to read it again? We're expecting $4000 back! How's that for God moving mountains?!?! That's HALF of our goal!

Oye! And if that wasn't enough we just found out that Derek got a raise.

This stuff makes me want to cuss in a "you can't put my God in a box" kind of way.



*I also have a fish who's a great listener if you're interested!