The 3 Hour Blood Glucose Test

On Monday, January 24, I had to have a 3 hour blood glucose test because my blood sugar was too low the last time I had my blood drawn.  With each of my pregnancies, I have had to take this glucose test.  When I was in the middle of the test it dawned on me that I was paper pregnant.  I almost laughed out loud.  God has funny jokes sometimes.

Fiery arrows

In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.  Ephesians 6:16

Do you ever feel like Satan isn't shooting arrows, but using fiery cannon balls? 

SERIOUSLY?

Adoption hoops.  I seem to be jumping in place and getting nowhere fast.  It feels like we've fallen through the cracks and gotten lost.  I am not at liberty to say exactly how I feel, so I'll just leave my adoption friends with one acronym:  USCIS.  Enough said.

I guess I need to go find my SHIELD of FAITH and find my happy pants.

Blessing about Fingerprinting Early

Before we received our fingerprinting appointment, I was going to be patient and not go early.  Then we received our appointment and it was more than 3 weeks out.  Then we were going to be 30 minutes away from the fingerprinting place on 12/30/10, so we decided to go early.

I am SO glad we went early.  Our appointment was scheduled for 1/10/11.  It started snowing early 1/10/11 and didn't stop until sometime last night.  We have about 6 (or more) inches of snow outside.

I don't know what we would have done if we waited for our appointment.  I am so glad that my dh decided to go early.   We saved a few pennies by not having to make a 2nd trip also.  I am so overjoyed about that.

The Lord is faithful.

Deuteronomy 7:9
⁹ Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.

Rock Chalk Jayhawk

We got our oldest son admission into Bill Self's Basketball camp for the morning of December 31.  What a wonderful blessing.  It was a lot of fun.

We decided to go ahead and get our fingerprints done for our I600A.  We were already going to be driving about 20 minutes from the fingerprinting place on December 30, so we swung in.  Our fingerprints were done within 20 minutes. 

Now we wait some more.

Merry Christmas 2010

Wow!  What a year this has been.  I can't wait until next Christmas to see what happened in 2011.  By next Christmas we should be a family of 6 (God-willing). 

This year we will have a white Christmas.  It snowed about 2 inches where we live overnight.  The peaceful, graceful, light snow was still falling this morning when we woke up.  It was beautiful.  Last year, in our area, we had way too much snow and cold for my liking.  This year has not been as cold, so that is a blessing all in itself. 

We received our fingerprinting appointment on Dec. 17 as I had expected.  Our appointment is scheduled for January 10, 2011. 

I wish you all a blessed new year!  May God be in your EVERY day.

God Opens Doors To Joy

When God opened the door to adoption, I knew that waiting on the other side would be a brand new child to enter into our family.

I know that I have an amazing family.  I have a wonderful husband and 3 precious gifts for sons.   You can not beat those priceless gifts.  They are so dear to my heart.

What I didn't know is that through adoption I would come across some other AMAZING families.  I have made 2 new friends already and have met other fabulous God-fearing, child-loving people through adoption boards.  These people fill my heart with joy and sometimes my eyes with tears (mostly good happy tears). 

What another grand, undeserved blessing.  Praise God!

Now, we wait a few more days.  We should have our fingerprinting appointment by this Friday (Dec 17).  Since I think our family is so amazing, I hope the US government find us suitable to adopt. 

May God Bless your heart!
Christina

Monday Afternoon Update

We should be Home Study to Korea some time this week.  It was either sent off last Wednesday, or it will be sent to Korea this week.  That's exciting news.

We received our homestudy last Wednesday.  As soon as I got it, I called our SW and made sure I had the documents necessary to send off our I-600A.  This is the document you send so that the US Government (Homeland Security) can decide if you are fit to bring a child into this country.  Anyway, that's how I understand it.

God is amazing. 

A friend that we made at the Parents in Process class received a referral from China last week.  Please pray that their journey will continue to go smoothly and quickly. 

Church was really good yesterday.  It was about being prepared for Christ's return.

I leave you with this Bible verse for the day because I have needed more faith the last few days.

Luke 17:5-6
⁵ The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”
 ⁶ He replied, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.