We heard lots of stories last weekend at our adoption training conference. One of the main ones that really stuck out to me was about Andrew. My friend Rachelle wrote about the story and you can read it by clicking here.

We have a new case worker through AWOP. Our original one had a family emergency and at this time is no longer working there. I talked with our new case worker yesterday and was very blessed.

As with almost all adoptions, finances are one of the biggest challenges. We are trusting in God that He will be faithful. We know that if we are in His will, He will provide a way. There are many grants and different programs you can go through, plus no interest adoption loans. Of course, with many of these you have to have your homestudy complete before applying. There is a fine line between trusting God to provide while waiting for His blessings and maybe His way of providing is by having the programs available to help people.

As our anniversary present to each other we bought maps. My friend Lisa has these and you can see a picture by clicking here. Jesse has been busy making frames and will hopefully have them done today. We will be in town later today and are planning to get the glass to put in the frames and they should be hanging on my walls by tomorrow!