I have 'adoption brain' right now so I apologize for how scatterbrained this post is going to be :) Wow we are blown away by your generosity and kindness! Our T-shirt fundraiser was a whopping success with $1400 pledged! Yep you read that right! Amazing! We haven't added that total to our fundraiser thermometer on the blog yet since all the pledges haven't come in. But I'm sure you can see that the amount on our thermometer has jumped considerably as well. We have had wonderful friends and family and people we don't even know continue to send us donations! Also my coworkers had a fundraiser for us this week- my lovely friend sold plates of cheesy nachos and jars of salsa for Sheppard! Sorry I forgot to take pictures. Things have been moving so quickly- which is good!
We have just been blown away by everyone's kindness and generosity. If you are reading this blog and are afraid of taking that leap of faith into adoption because of finances, just know that it's all God's money. He does provide. He loves orphans and he loves placing them in families!
We meant to post something on here over the holidays. It was going to be a wonderful post about how we wish Sheppard was here with us this year and how we can't wait for next Christmas...We were driving home from my mom's on Christmas day and Alden and I were just...sad. Sheppard was that very moment an ocean away from us on Christmas day and that reality hit us hard. Yet another holiday without a family. We had so many mixed emotions. We were super excited and thankful that we had a son (!) and that this would be his last Christmas without us (!) but also grieving the fact that he is not with us just yet. We couldn't love on him and let him know how cherished he is...I wasn't expecting this part to be so hard. The waiting....the holidays honestly flew by in a blur and we felt somewhat numb. But overall we were so thankful that God has us on this journey- it doesn't matter how hard it is for us- it's been much, much harder for Sheppard to be an orphan for 15 years. He is more than worth all the waiting, all the fundraising and all the paperwork.
Speaking of paperwork...I'll update about that next time! Things are moving very quickly and I barely have time to catch my breath before the next thing needs to be done! Thankfully God has provided all the funds we need every step of the way- no forms have had to be delayed because we didn't have the fees ready! God is teaching us what it really means to trust him for our daily needs, and he provides each and every time!
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