Well, school is getting ready to start. Only a week and a half until I have to go back to work. I am saddened, but I am also a little excited to get back into a routine. I have missed my friends from work and seeing everyone including all of the kids. My job is hard at times, but it is also rewarding and fun at times too. I am also starting a new second job. I have signed up to be an Avon representative. The main reason for it is to make money to help bring Josephine home. 50% of the first four times of ordering goes to our adoption (it is for signing up to be a representative, but obviously we are using it for our adoption). We are working very hard for the next 2 months to sell as much as we can so that I can make as much as I can. We are quite a bit short, but I know that God will use this to His glory and I also know that He sees what we are trying to do. We have finally just given everything to Him and I know that He will provide what we need.

Our van was towed away after a year and a half of not working at all. The guy said that he will see if he can fix it and if he can't he will try and buy it off from us. As they were towing it away, Mike and I both sat down and prayed. Prayed that God would work this out to His glory as He knows that we have only had one car for over a year now and it has come to us needing to get another one "perfect timing I know:)". We don't know where we are really going to get the money needed for any of this, but God does and we have given it to Him. The funny thing is, I feel that He had been waiting all along for us to do just that, give it all to Him. So I am a little nervous (as the humanness comes out), but I do know God will take care of it and a weight has been lifted off from our shoulders.

I will also be documenting what will be going on in the days/months to follow as we are preparing for all of this and waiting to see what God is doing/has done. Also, as we await for our little girl to come home, we have decided that I will be the one that will go to Liberia to get her. It is exciting to think of the first time that I will see her and hold her. To think that we will share something that will only between me and her as I get to experience her birth country with her. I have felt for some time God preparing me to go to Liberia, I don't know why, but I have felt for quite a few months that this time I should be the one to go. I just pray for God to use me on this trip and use me when I get back. I want it to change me for the good, to change the fact that I have taken things for granted and sometimes don't realize what I do have compared to others, but most of all, I have God and have a relationship with Him and I want to share that with others here and in Liberia. I hope to also get to meet Thomas' family. It will be something to be able to tell Thomas that I have met his family in Liberia and have met a part of Thomas. I am thankful to his father for what he did for Thomas. He seen that this little boy needed more, and he loved him enough to give that to him no matter how much it hurt to give him up. I don't really think of it as giving him up, his father just gave him more. We tell Thomas that he as two dads that love him. He also has two moms (but his other mother died when he was 4 months old). I will also get to see where Thomas lived as we are adopting from the same place. I do think it will connect me even deeper to my children (if that is even possible:)). Well, I will be blogging these events as I want to have a place to write down my journey and one day look back and also to show my children. Please keep us in your prayers as this is going to be and adventure:).

I am posting a couple of new pictures of the boys at the part, and a new picture of Josie that a very good friend has taken while she has been in Liberia. (Thanks Bre!)

Andrea