Pray!

Okay friends, we need your prayers and FAST. We need a miracle & we only have 14 days. PRAY!!

edited for caution. I don't want to put anything on here that could jeopardize or referral but if you want to know specifically what to pray for email me at addiesmommy@hotmail.com

The first time we saw you....

Ignore that there is mascara smeared all over my face. :)
Had to blur out her face and info but these are some proud siblings!
Do you see these eyes? I can't stop starring into them. They are amazing!

some details....

I was sooo not expecting the call yesterday. Our caseworker was out of the country so I was thinking it was going to be another couple of weeks. When the phone rang I didn't even look at where the call came from. When she said, "this is Jessica" it didn't really register who she was until she said, "I have good news for you" I just fell in the floor and started crying like a baby. I couldn't get it together. I probably cried in the phone to her for 5 minutes. Finally, I pulled it together and she told me to get "S" and put the phone on speaker. She started telling us about her and told us to open our email. When I say the email that said " Introducing M...(her birth name also starts with M) I starting bawling again. I could barely open it. At this point it's me and "A" and "S" all gathered around the computer staring at her sweet face and listening to the caseworker tell us all about her and her family history. We got all of her medical records as well. Other than pneumonia (that she had the same week I had it) and a stomach bug that she had last month she's been very healthy. She is very little but that's to be expected. She's 8.3 pounds. The caseworker told us she's 4 months old but she was born May 15th so that makes her 5 months. She came into the foster care center on Aug. 25th and has been in there care ever since.

We already had tickets last night to take the kids to Disney on Ice so after getting the call I had to somehow pull it together and manage to get myself and the kids dressed. I don't remember much about the show....I kept reliving the whole call over and over again in my head. Amazing.

We are so overwhelmed by God's faithfulness to us.

Thank you so much for your kinds words and for getting me through all the waiting.

WE HAVE A BABY!!!

We got our referral this afternoon for a beautiful baby girl. She's 4 months old and absolutely breathtaking! She's a little bitty thing....8 pounds. Thank you all for all your love and support through this process. The waiting is distant memory after seeing her face.

I will be back to share details with you all about "the call" but right now we're over the moon....

I've been Tagged

I was tagged by Chelsea. I'm suppose to name 7 random facts about myself. I don't have lots of interesting things to say but here goes nothin'...

1. I got my finger cut off when I was a little girl. My mom accidentally slammed it in the door. I had it surgically reattached. Looks good as new. :)

2. I'm addicted to facebook

3. I'm a librarian. Not your typical little old lady looking librarian, eh?

4. I plan on breastfeeding baby "M"

5. I'm scared to death to fly to Ethiopia. I don't like flying....especially for 20 + hours.

6. I'm a freelance makeup artist

7. I can't sleep without Ambien

Okay, now I have to tag 7 people. I tag Sam, Ellen, Lulu, Meredith

week 23

Today marks 23 weeks of waiting.

not this week....

...on to week 23. w0w. I really never thought I'd be typing that. Have a good weekend. I'm going to carve pumpkins with the kiddos.

jehovah jireh

Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?

Matthew 6:26

I have to remind myself today that HE is my PROVISION!

Exiting the Window

Today marks 5 months of waiting. It's also the week we exit the "window". I'm not to stressed out about that. It will happen eventually. That's the attitude of today anyway. Tomorrow could be something totally different with lots of fit throwing and begging God to hurry up but today I'm at peace. I know that God's timing is absolutely perfect and mine is NOT. I know that every time I try to do something within myself and not trust God completely I always end up messing it up. I DON'T want to mess this up so I'm laying it at His feet.

"S" and I had such a good weekend. Someone gave us free tickets to the Auburn/Vandy game so we drove to Nashville for the afternoon. We needed to get away just the 2 of us and hang out together and get our minds off all the waiting & stressing about how we're going to finish paying for the adoption. We haven't been to a college football game in years. I'd forgot how much I love the atmosphere of college game day. I'm not even an Auburn fan but we still had a blast. As we were hiking the 30 minutes back to our car (yes, parking stinks) we talked about how we've got to do that more often. Not hike but go to football games. I've already been looking on ebay for cheap tickets. No luck so far.

The kids are out of school for Fall Break starting Monday. I've got to come up with some fun but CHEAP things for them to do. Any suggestions?