Not a whole lot to be updating on, but just thought I'd throw something out.
I decided to spice up my page a bit and added a couple things. I was feeling a little smart and thought I'd try to some things out. I changed up the color and the font and placed things in different places. Hopefully things will be easier to see and find. I added a button to my Etsy site. I don't know if I really told anyone but after we did our fundraising with Ordinary Hero I sent a picture of the thank you's I made to one of the girls who I had been in contact with. She had asked me to make 300 cards and donate them to the OH store. I made 100 Africa themed Thank You's, 100 China themed Thank You's and 100 generic Thank You's. They are actually featured this week in the store for the OH Grant Contest going on right now. If you want to pop over there and purchase any, don't forget to choose my name on the drop down box under affiliate. If you want wait, that'd be great too!! We opened up my Etsy site and those cards and many others will be on the site and ready for you to buy soon. :) All the proceeds will be going straight to our adoption account. I also added a donate button if anyone feels led to do so.
As Kyle and I have gone down this road, we have wanted to do many things to encourage other people to adopt and just make people more aware of what's going on around us. We have thought about ideas, but never really settled on anything. Today at church one of our pastors who actually adopted 4 out of the 5 of his children was open to talk to us. I told him I've been reading a book called Orphanology and there was a Bible Study/Small Group Study to go along with it. They have something at our church called Northview University with different types of classes, and he asked us to pray about leading a class in about 5 weeks. We will be praying and researching and see what God calls us to do with this opportunity. :)
Kyle and I have also envisioned the type of family we see for some reason. We always saw a baby boy and a toddler girl. Now, we always say, if we were pregnant we wouldn't get to choose which gender. I also really wanted to have a gender reveal party and make it so much fun. However we have made the choice to bring home one of each. So, we are planning for a boy and a girl. :) We are so excited, and we still don't know for sure what the ages will be, but we are pretty sure it will be baby boy and toddler girl. We are very thrilled and will still probably throw some kind of gender party just for fun.
Some prayer requests:
For the Southern Region to open up soon.
For direction in our church and leading the class I talked earlier about.
To be chosen for a fundraising and grant we are applying for.
Most importantly for our children and their mothers. The infant is probably not born yet, and possibly not even conceived, so just for healthiness of the mother and peace for our children. We pray for this every night before we go to bed, but I'd love for others to jump on too. :)
Happy 23 hour day friends!! ;)
