This week has been filled with swimming lessons in the mornings, babysitting all day/week and participating with VBS in the evenings. Tomorrow I will be helping shoot another wedding. Next week will be mostly the same of swimming lessons and babysitting. In the midst of all the craziness, without going into details, we have been emotionally drained as we have had to make a very difficult and painful decision in regards to our family's personal life. God is faithful and He is leading, but sometimes it isn't easy when we don't understand why and when it hurts so badly. We covet your prayers as we make this transition.
Yesterday was another very active day for us in our adoption journey. Our social worker called while I was with the kids at swimming lessons and let me know that Mommy D is no longer in jail. She had been in the hospital with stomach pains, but she is now fine and the baby is continuing to do well. She also wrote us another letter/poem, but I don't know what it says. :( We were also informed that we needed to money gram her so that she could have some money for rent now that she is out of jail. Then on the way home from swimming lessons, I was called twice more and we needed to money gram her NOW! On the second call, we had a three way call with the social worker and Mommy D. It was so good to talk with her! The baby is causing her quite a bit of discomfort though as she is resting on her sciatic nerve. :( She asked if we could get together with her soon and I told her we would try to get something worked out in July. She then asks if we can get her some money, so that just added some more rush and pressure to hurry up. I knew I needed to hurry as well because I was going to be babysitting and had to get back home in time for the girl to show up. Anyway, I didn't have the savings checkbook with me so I rushed home to grab it and then rushed to WalMart to send her the money gram. I get to WalMart and I am told that I can't pay by check, but it had to be by cash or debit. Well, I didn't have time to grab cash and the debit card is only for the regular checking account, which is not where the adoption funds are kept. Needless to say, I am about in tears, and the lady isn't being very kind about the whole thing. I knew Mommy D knew when I was going to WalMart and so she was going to walk to the WalMart close to her so that she would be ready to get her money when it came. So, I hauled the two younger kids back out to the van and wondered what I should do. Did I have to go all the way across town to our bank and then come back? I knew I somehow had to get the funds fast from the savings and I wasn't sure how to do it. I sat in the WalMart parking lot thinking through options, and then decided to call our bank before I went across town to see what my options were! Praise the Lord, I did that! I was able to talk with a teller that knew us and she was willing to transfer funds for me while I sat at WalMart from the one account to the other and have it be instantly available so I could use my debit card. So I quickly filled out the form I had been given and rushed back in to WalMart again with my kids and wait in line. When I get up to the desk, the social worker called wanting to know what was going on and that Mommy D was waiting. I quickly told her I was in progress of sending the money. So we quickly finished up and then I called the social worker with the confirmation number. The money gram situation was finally done! So I quickly headed home so that I could get our kids lunch and get changed from their swimming suits (which they wore into WalMart), so we'd be ready by the time the little girl arrived. As soon as I got home, I remembered I had forgotten to go by the bank to pick up our receipt for the transaction. So we head back out to the van! Somehow in the process of getting home, and getting out of the van, the kids took off their shoes, so I win the mommy of the year award for taking the children into the bank in their swimming suits without shoes. :) Anyway, we quickly grabbed something for lunch and then headed home in time for us to meet our little girl. By this time, my stomach is in knots from all of the excitement!
Besides babysitting, I had a few hours to get ready for our fundraiser last night that was downtown. I quickly made a sign and tried to get things all gathered up for that. Thankfully a friend was coming with me to sell some of her Thirty-One bags. It would also be nice to have someone there to help pass the time (we left about 4:00 and didn't leave the fundraiser until 9:00 p.m.). The weather wasn't bad last night, but it sure was windy. So while we are setting up I start seeing some of my things start to fly away and go down below where I couldn't get it. Should I laugh or cry after the day I had had?! Thankfully nothing too terribly important blew away. Where we set up we were able to be in the midst of quite a bit of traffic. We were definitely given some opportunities to be an example for Jesus! One lady even asked if my friend and I were adopting this baby together as a gay couple!! Oh my! Unfortunately, our sign (seen below) caused some of the confusion. It would have been helpful if the rest of the family could've been there, but they were finishing up the last night of VBS. We ended the evening with $36.00 in donations and selling one of her Thirty-One bags. Overall, it wasn't too bad of an evening. But by the end I was drained! Needless to say, today, I spent the day babysitting in the morning and then tried to not do much of anything at all in an attempt to recoup.
Tomorrow makes it 2 months until the baby is due! Hopefully within the next week or so we will be able to share with you that we have a fun date planned with Mommy D. She is wanting to do ice cream and swimming so will see what actually happens. We pray for her that now that she is out of jail that she will make wise choices! Thank you for praying!
Tomorrow is also special because it will be our Forever Family Day! On 6/22/07, Adia forever became a Snell! What a blessing she has been to our family! I love to see how her love for Jesus is growing!
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