I was so excited to get to go up to the Children's Hospital last night to visit with Gwen and sweet Maggs!!! This child is seriously a walking miracle. To think of WHAT she has been through in her short life time...and that she sits happy, climbing around and WITH NO PAIN MEDS is beyond amazing!! That sweet child had an incision on her head big enough to make the rest of us NEVER want to get out of bed again...and yet, she was happy, her normal playful, silly self and smiling from ear to ear!! :) You can read their story by visiting Gwen's blog www.oatsvallteam.blogspot.com Please keep Maggie in your prayers so she can come home quickly..... Love me some Maggie Oatsvall:
**We're also FINALLY done decorating for Christmas...it took us a week...but hey, it's all up and done now...so we're sittin back now enjoying some Christmas cookies (lots of them :) and other yummy baked goods my kids beg me to make this time of year:**And, one last random pic I wanted to post last week..but ran out of time....Yall know we have some crazy "animal" sightings in our back yard....AND, no, we don't live in the country..smack dab right in the middle of town..yet...wild animals like to come out around our home ALL THE TIME...I won't mention the deer incident again...If you missed that one...well...you'll have to go back a month or so to find it...yuck!!! And, we see fox, wild cats, coyotes, raccoons, etc. all the time..... BUT on Thanksgiving Eve...I opened up my front door to see this:There were about 20 WILD Turkey's running through my front yard....I ran back in for my camera....by the time I got back, they were in the neighbor's back yard....so I just kept chasing them and snapping pics...Just thought it was so funny to see them on Thanksgiving Eve....I wonder if they became anyone's lunch the next day??? :)
Ok...so that's all the randomness I have for tonight... Check out this great video...I think this family is so well spoken and the video is full of great info...I'd sound so country and full of "ums" if I was trying to make a video..so I admire anyone that can talk this well and get her point across so beautifully....enjoy...and Happy Sunday to you all:
I love Michelle too and have been following her journey almost since the beginning! Yours is another blog I take time to "check in" on once a week or so. Thank you for being a wonderful, Godly example!
I'm a blessed Momma of 6 that's out to share our adoption experience and to encourage others to CARE FOR THE ORPHANS of our world!!
"...once our eyes are opened, we can't pretend we don't know what to do. God, who weighs our hearts and keeps our souls, knows that we know, and holds us responsible to act."(Proverbs 24:12)
June 19th, 2009- We'll be arriving back home with Lucy Lane in our arms...Super yeah!!!
June 13th, 2009 - We'll be flying out to get our baby girl..yeah!!!
May 26th, 2009 - Received call that WE PASSED COURT..she's ours!!
April 20th, 2009 - Received NEW COURT DATE for May 25th.
March 30th, 2009- Received re-referral for Baby "M".
March 10th, 2009 - Julie, our caseworker, calls and delivers the sad news: We lost our referral. Baby Kalkidan's birth mother came back for her.
March 6th, 2009 - Julie calls and gives us court date of May 13th.
February 16th, 2009 - AGCI receives referral packet at 10 am.
February 13th, 2009 - Finish all paperwork and over night referral packet back to AGCI.
February 12th, 2009 - Receive packet and start small paper chase.
February 11th, 2009 - AGCI overnights referral packet to us.
February 10, 2009 - Received "the call" our referral came for our precious 9 month old baby girl. Yeah!!!
February 5th, 2009- Received email stating we're #2 on the wait list...Which meant we were really #1!
January 6th, 2009 - Received call that we're officially #6 on wait list, but really #3.
December 5th, 2008 - Received call that we're officially #9 but really #6 on the wait list!!
November 7th, 2008 - Received email that we're #13 on the wait list.
October 8th, 2008 - Received email that we're #19 on the wait list.
September 4th, 2008 - Received call that we're #23 on the wait list.
July 25th, 2008 - Received notice that we're #27 on the wait list!!
July 22nd, 2008 - Mailed off our Dossier!!! Yeah!!!
July 12th, 2008 - received final completed copy of homestudy
June 18th, 2008 - Fingerprints were taken.
June 17th, 2008 - received dossier packet
May 29th, 2008 - Phone Conference with AGCI (our adoption agency)
May 27th, 2008 - Had final Home Study where Julie walked through our home and met all our kids.
May 13th, 2008- Had 2nd Home Study appt. with Julie B. and scheduled final meeting at our home.
April 22nd, 2008 - Had first Home Study Appt. with Julie B., our homestudy person.
April 14th, 2008 - We mail application to All God's Children International for an adoption from Ethiopia.
April 2008 - We decide to adopt from Ethiopia.
March 18th, 2008 - My sisters and I have lunch with Tracy and her family and ask lots of ethiopian adoption questions
February 29th, 2008- I email Tracy M. from the Utube video and ask to meet her and Levi sometime.
February 26th, 2008 - Nicole G. sends me Utube Video about local adoption
I think they were just having a "we survived!" party in your backyard, haha!!
ReplyDeleteI love Michelle too and have been following her journey almost since the beginning! Yours is another blog I take time to "check in" on once a week or so. Thank you for being a wonderful, Godly example!
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