our house smells

At least that’s what they tell me. My sniffer doesn’t work all that well…

We’ve just completed a fundraiser through This Little Light of Mine Candle Company to try to cover some of the costs for our impending adoption.

It has been a long wait, and more expensive than I imagined. God put this dream of adopting in my beautiful wife’s big heart while she was still a kid, but I only picked it up and owned it about 2 years ago. Better stated, it owns me now.

Our kids are excited about adding to our family, and we pray for Annabelle every night at bedtime. The girls named her! How cool is that? We’re adopting a baby girl from China. We hope to travel late in 2007, which seems like forever since we started the process.

Levi wanted a brother. Oh brother…

Praying today for Bob and Dannah Gresh, who are trying to adopt a 13 year old girl from China. They’re up against a time deadline, since China has some pretty strict adoption guidelines. Dannah writes:

As you probably know, our family is adopting Autumn Cloud from China. She turns 14 on October 6th and we must have her at least on a plane out of China on that day (or before) or we cannot have her. Chinese immigration/adoption laws would prohibit it if we are one day late.

God can work this out, I know it…