Nesting!!!

Here are two pictures I found for the girls at Marshalls! The butterflies and flower actually are three dimensional...so cute!

I've been trying to very frugally start getting the girls room ready!It's a fun challenge! My friend Lisa gave the girls this wooden kitchen set! Isn't it cute!!! Thanks Lisa!

Now on to the challenge of finding THREE twin mattresses sets for a good price! I keep checking Craigs List, so I may find them through there. It is hard using Craigs List though because you kind of have to commit to buying something before you see it! I know God will provide...

Be praying for our agency directors who are in Liberia now to adopt and bring home their son Toben. You can check out their blog at www.petreeepatch.blogspot.com...

Update....

The lawyer who processed Addy's Hopes adoptions died about a week ago. We are very sad for his family. Addy's Hope will now be looking for a new lawyer. Pray for them to find one quickly! Our agency director will be heading to Liberia very soon! Pray for her while she is there! She will be going with several families to pick up her own adopted child as well as go through our cases and hopefully make some headway.

She will have an assistant there to help her measure the children, etc. I will be very glad to find out what size they are approximately! It is hard to buy for them guessing what size they will wear.

I am experiencing much peace through this process, continually praying that God's will be done. This is such a huge undertaking that I need to know that God's will WILL be done!

We still have a lot of money to raise, approximately 8,000-12,000 more. We will have more garage sales once the weather gets warmer. So if you have any goodwill donations let me know! I will gladly pick them up! Thanks again to everyone who has donated so far!

For fundraising we are also selling shea butter and if anyone wants to get some it is 5.50 for a 1 oz, 10.00 for a 2 oz and 16.50 for a 4 oz. Email me if your interested! acwalsman@yahoo.com

I've got another fundraising idea up my sleeve but still in process! Basically it will be bracelets with different fabric choices and in the middle it would be black with a short bible verse in white text (or vice versa). Our oldest son has one that says "December 30, 2007" and underneath that it says "God's Soldier". That is the date he committed his life to Jesus Christ! The fabric on the sides of the text is camouflage. My younger son has one with the same fabric but it says "Love your neighbor as yourself." The lady who is helping me make them is working on being able to make them in bigger sizes so that I can get one that says something like, "A gentle answer turns away wrath". I need to be reminded of this every day, often! If you have any thoughts about these email me!

Timeline

Our director told us to be ready for bringing home our kids by mid-February, but plan on March-May. It is so nice to have a time frame. I can get ready for our kids and then if we don't bring them home until May at least I can relax and know we are ready when it's time. I ordered a few books to start reading on trans-racial adoption and adopting older children. I'm also planning to take some courses given by the state for foster parents that will equip me to parent children with special needs. I know I will have a lot to manage so I'm excited to start getting equipped!