Dream a little dream......

"Dream a little dream, dream a little while, dream with me of how you think it might be....." (words from a song by Avalon)

Sometimes I like to think about what might be going on in Peru.
Because somewhere, a million miles away, there is a little boy or girl who will be coming to be apart of our family in a few months! I get excited when I think about it. There are a million possibilities of what that child could be doing. Running around and chasing another child, eating with the hopes of being done before the food is taken away, maybe they have been stapped in a chair or left in their crib for hours and hours, maybe someone is holding them and singing to them or perhaps they are laughing at toy. Maybe there will be two! Who knows!?! God does! He's getting everyone ready for transition time! Even it takes months and months.

Keep praying everyone!

It takes a villiage to adopt a child. Thanks for being apart of it!

Fund-Raising

Last week, I told you it would take 5 business days before the social worker from the adoption agency would contact us. Well I was wrong. She called the next day! :)
She said we looked great on paper and to come up with an action-plan for our fund-raising. She still has to talk with the international director at the agency before we are offically approved or rejected (we don't have much savings and this is not a good thing considering the cost - even all couples have to raise and/or save funds for adoption, it's good if you have a little bit at the beginnging and we don't!) So we took the weekend and came up with a plan that we think is great.
It's amazing the number of people we know who have adopted or are adopting! We truly believe that the Lord really wants us to adopt, so I believe it will happen - even if this agency tells us to call back when we have more money in savings. But we really like this agency, so we hope to be approved. I called her Monday to tell her our plan and she said it sounded great and she still needed to talk with the director and that she would call me back.

The agency we have applied to is Lifeline Children's Services - they are a Christian-based agency.
Our country of choice: Peru
Our gender of choice: girl, but a boy will be just as sweet, in case we cannot adopt a girl! :)

So Brent and I will begin the lovely task of fund-raising, but I don't really see it as fund-raising.
There are many people who have impacted our life before marriage and after marriage and we hope that they will be apart of this time in our lives. We want to share it with them. We've been praying already for God to provide the funds - I know He will, He always does, and has done so many times in my life before, but His timing could be different than mine! I would have had all the funds last week, or I'd even settle for enough to pay what we need to, to begin and end the homestudy! But I will be happy and content in this time of praying and waiting. I love this song: click here or scroll to end of the blogsite to watch it.

Thanks for reading!

Sleeping Stories

Sleep is something that has not been around at our house recently. Both Brent and I have had trouble sleeping the past month. However, this past week, we've both slept pretty well. Brent will sometimes talk in his sleep. It's hilarious! If I wake-up and here him, I try to talk back to him, just to see what he will say. A few nights ago, Brent had a nightmare - of sorts - about all the wallpaper we've been taking down. The wallpaper steamer is a metal box with a long hose connected and at the end of the hose is a metal pan. The water is incredibly hot and comes out of pan in the form of steam and sometime water runs out too. Much like an iron.

In the dead of night I hear Brent: "MARIANNE! HELP ME! I'M STUCK! TURN IT OFF!"
I rolled over and tried to find the light, when I turn it on Brent's arm looked as if it were stuck between the bed and the headboard. He was also pulling at our headboard back and forth with his other hand. He woke-up just enough to realize he was okay and turned over and went back to sleep. The next day, I forgot all about this, but he remembered! He was dreaming that the wallpaper steamer was stuck on the wall and he couldn't get it off and the hot water was falling onto his face!

OH! What a laugh!!

Not only does Brent talk in his sleep, he also snores. Sometimes both together! It's not so bad. We have a fan that we sleep with and I usually can't hear him. If I do, i will just poke or nudge him and he turns over and quits snoring. Well one particular night, in Texas, he was snoring pretty loud and when I poked him this is what he said: "if you poke me one more time, I'm gonna punch you in the nose!" I said: "you are mean!" and rolled over. Only about the time I rolled over, I realized he was still asleep when he said it! I told him the next day and he did not remember a thing about it!

It is never a dull moment with Brent around, whether he is awake or not!