Well, it's been a couple of weeks since we talked, and it's been BUSY! We had the Burdine Christmas, the Collins Christmas, our niece Kailey came and stayed with us for a few days, we dook down all the Christmas decorations (which is a multi-day process), and went to Jacksonville to watch State play Michigan in the Gator Bowl (we won 52-14, and had a great time). Things have finally started to slow down and return to normal so I wanted to catch you up on a few things. We heard right before Christmas that our adoption application was approved and had a program orientation call right before we left for Jacksonville. We got our contracts signed and sent off and the only thing we were really waiting on was the outcome of the adoption bill in Parliament. They had pushed it back to the January 11 agenda. If we paid any money and then they passed the bill, we would lose whatever we had paid. So we were debating on whether or not to go ahead and send the money knowing that we may lose it but believing that God had the situation under control or to just wait and find out the outcome of the bill. We had decided that we were going to go ahead and step out in faith and send the money when we got word that they had postponed the bill indefinitely. We thought it was GREAT news!
But the down side to finally getting the answer we were looking for was that we now needed the money to send to the agency to get the process rolling. Again, I shouldn't have worried - God is in control. We needed to come up with a little over $4000. After being told that we wouldn't get an end of the year bonus, I got one. Then I got a call from a guy who needed a survey that I'll be able to do on the side. I'm also trying to sell a few of my guns. If you add up all of that, it's about $4200 worth of unexpected income. God is good.
To get our home study, we'll still need to come up with another $2000, but I'm looking forward to seeing how God will provide for us.
Blake
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