Weird

I don’t really know how to start this post but just to say, my goodness, things are WEIRD! 

And for those of you walking along side us on this WEIRD journey, we are more than thankful. 

It honestly baffles me. There is SO VERY much unknown right now, and yet we keep working with zero answers and you all keep moving right along with us.  🧡

To sum up where we are at…  

🧡 We are still working toward adoption as God has asked and we’re trusting He has a plan for us. 

🧡 We don’t know who we will adopt or where we will need to travel to bring him/her home. We are trusting God to show us this direction.

🧡 We are in the middle of a pandemic that affects travel, paperwork, timelines, restrictions….everything.  

🧡 International adoption, because of COVID, is currently a fluid process, changing almost daily and making it next to impossible to plan ahead. 

🧡 We don’t know how many trips to anticipate for our adoption or the duration of these trips.  

🧡 We don’t know if borders will be open or closed when we are ready to travel.  

🧡 We don’t know how these changes will affect the already astronomical cost of adoption.  

🧡 We have started fundraising before starting paperwork and before knowing any of these answers (which was never our plan, but felt like the right time to begin). 

And yet, we’re surrounded by support and love and a slew of people who believe in us when we don’t really have anything to give them except to share our story right now.  

I’ve always been pretty private with my fears and my struggles and my finances, but I feel that especially in the situation we’re in now, transparency is what is deserved.  All of you who have been traveling with us, step by step into the unknown, deserve to see the progress, the process, and where the funds are going.  

It would be so much easier (for you and us!) to have a timeline, a certain agenda, a budget, or at least the face of the child we will call our own to help our support system see who and what they are giving to.  But in the weirdness that is our reality, all we have is the story of this journey.  

Our first fundraiser is coming up next month. We’re excited and nervous to see how it all turns out. Every person coming and/or helping is doing so with just the faith that we will be starting paperwork soon and they are helping to make that possible.  

(If you’re local and want to join in the fun, there are still a few tickets left, just send me a message!)

We had another huge delivery for our Rummage Sale this weekend.  I keep getting so emotional every time someone brings us stuff.  It’s still seven months away and we have so much stored away already!

Our next hurdle is going to be passports and we’re going to get started this week because things are moving S…L…O…W!  The adults are covered but H’s is expired and J doesn’t have one so we feel it’s important to get moving on this now.  We have no clue if they will be traveling with us, but we always hoped H would be able to come for part of the trips and if our stay will be an extended one, J will likely tag along.  

Our last family-of-four vacation (which has been booked and paid for months ago) also requires passports, but that, too, is up in the air due to COVID cancellations. 

I guess in all this, I just want to keep saying THANK YOU!  Thank you for pouring your support into us and this adoption when we are unable, in the midst of this weirdness, to give you anything back by way of assurance.  

We promise to keep sharing because you all are part of this story now too! 

Much love! 🧡

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