Ready for a Sister!

As I shared in my post about going crazy NESTING, we've been busy bees around here.  In the midst of the insanity, though, I've been having some awesome moments with God.  I've had great, precious times with my children also.  They continually teach me how to be a better mother.  I love them so much!

Now for the fun stuff...the big reveal!  Here is the girls room:

This dresser was so much fun to make over!  It came out so much better than I could have ever imagined.  The bunkbed got a fresh coat of paint, as well, but it's not as fun as the dresser!

We tacked up a lovely curtain panel that had a garden scene on it so that is the view from the bottom bunk.  We are anticipating that our child has spent much of her life in a crib without all that much to look at, and I couldn't bear for that to continue.  I think this was my favorite part of our little angel's nook.

The owl pillow matches The Princess' top bunk (of which I could get no good picture because the angles were awful!) and the colors in the quilts overlap, but the patterns are different.  If you look closely, you can see that the shelf in the headboard has been papered with a zebra print.  That was totally for the Princess who currently has a huge zebra thing going on, as does her momma.  We really liked that part, too.

What you can't see is the reading nook and book shelves because I forgot to take a photo of them.  Sorry!

In the Waiting Season

The waiting season during our last adoption was nice. It was a simple time of waiting.  Sure, I nested and we prayed and we worked on the house, but by that time we were done with the stressful stuff.  We were pretty close to fully funded, we had the bedrooms set up, and everything that could go wrong already had.

This adoption process has been so different.

Nothing went wrong at first; apparently it all wanted to wait until the home stretch when all we were supposed to have to worry about was waiting.  Hmm.

I won't go through my "laundry list of woes" here, because complaining serves no purpose.  I'll just say that it's been a rather eventful few weeks and I can't wait to be bored.  Really.  Bored.  As in, nothing to do, nothing to stress about, nothing to worry over.

We have been hanging tight at about 1/3 funded and that is starting to freak me out a bit.  But I'm trying to walk in faith.  We have been blessed with a few matching grants up to this point, and have satisfied every one (through lots of hard work on our part ... BUT also LOTS of help on yours, so we THANK YOU SO MUCH!).

And now, now we are "crunch time."  We have close to $15,000 left to earn, save, and raise (more than that if we are able to bring home two!).  We don't have a matching grant, but we do have two incentives.  At the $1,500 mark we will have our car seat need met.  And at the $3,000 mark our stroller needs will be met.  I've got hunches other incentives are coming, but we have to hit these two first to find out!  

Take a peek at our fundraising tracker for this month's goal HERE.  

More than anything, we covet your prayers.  Please pray for wisdom, for provision, for every need to be met and for us to submit to God in every area of this process and all others in our life.