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Week 9 and 10 Wait


Welcome to our family countdown as we are counting the weeks until we get our referral of the children we will be adopting from Ethiopia!  We are requesting the blessing of 1 boy and 1 girl sibling group in the age range of 0-5 years old.  Our agency has been in contact with us and I know that they are looking for us to match us with these two precious children that will soon be grafted in to our family! 

This marks the beginning of week 10, and as week 9 rushed past us with the start of our home schooling year, we still do not go a day without talking about the new children, thinking of them, and praying for them.  

This week in our schooling we were beginning our Social Studies class with an overview of the continents and oceans.  Little Buggy, age 5, wrote on her map's continent of Africa "I want to see you."  It was precious!  She is longing to see her new sister and brother and she speaks of them often. "I bet they will like pancakes.  I think they will think bubbles are funny.  I think they will sleep well."  All kinds of things Buggy says to us about her daydreams and hopes for the new kids.  

Week 9 verse: "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher then  your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts."  Isaiah 55:9

Week 10 verse:  "The Lord directs our steps, so why try to understand everything along the way?" Proverbs 20:24

Wondering when all this is going to come in to play?  We can't wait either!  But, continually putting our trust back in the hands of the Lord as He surely knows the plans He has for this!! 

Thank you for your prayers and continued encouragement as we take this journey on together! 


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