Garage Sale & Moving

We are pulling things together for our garage sale tomorrow.  Hopefully we will get a good response.  God has been so good to us during this process and it has been so exciting and encouraging to see how He has provided and how we can use our own creativity to raise money for this adoption.  We are getting so close to having our home study fee raised. 

We will also be moving into a new home on October 1.  Our lease is up this month and we found we are able to save about $300 a month by moving to a different location.  Again God was at work and has provided us with a lovely home that backs up to BLM land and has a huge view of the lake from the back yard.  It also has a den off of the dining room that we can make our school/project area.  We are very excited.   Our new landlords are really neat Christians and we are excited to begin building a relationship with them.  This is going to be a great week of scaling down, evaluating our needs and getting organized-and once again the timing is perfect as we had already planned on our garage sale being this week.

God has also provided through our friends.  Our neighbor is giving us her infant car seat and bases and a home school friend of mine is giving us a small crib we can roll from room to room for when the baby first comes home.   

We have so many things to do to prepare for this little one sometimes I am struck with the fact that YES,  a little baby is coming home!  Sometimes I take a few minutes to just sit in the rocking chair in the nursery and image what he or she will be like and how it will feel to once again hold and care for a new born.   It is going to be so different from our other children as I will be going into the adventure rested and with energy rather than after 9 months of pregnancy.  I am so excited!  The other thing I find funny is that we have never been surprised by the sex of our babies.  With this new little one we will not only be surprised by the sex but by the race. How fun! 

These next few weeks will be very busy.  My parents are coming out for about a week, Levi turns 3 on Monday (I cannot even believe he is so big) and then the move.  God is so good and we feel so blessed to be on this grand adventure.  Following Him is NEVER dull!