Sorting my thoughts in not easy...

As the title reads, I have been having such a hard time sorting my thoughts these past days. I have so many things running through my mind that it is crazy! I have sat down at my blog about 4 times this week, and can not sort my thoughts enough to actually put a tangible blog post together! UGH! So I decided today to blog about that! :) This week I emailed on of my partners in prayer for our adoption asking her to pray for me because my mind is all over the place. Right after that I started talking about how I was eating cookie dough and how yummy it was...then went back to read the email. I realized how completely random my thoughts were! So I will warn you that if you have a hard time following my thoughts on this post...please just try to make as much sense of it as you can!!!!

Update on Calerbe...thank you for praying for him. I just got word this week that another family is adopting him. He is still sick and they have not been able to diagnose what he has. The family is trying to get a medical visa for him to come be treated in the US, but in order to get that they need a diagnosis...so you could pray that this precious little boy could get the treatment he deserves. I am so grateful that he has a family and that through his illness the Lord revealed His plan to this family. They are adopting another little girl from the orphanage and had been drawn to Calerbe for some time. When the call came out to please pray for him, it intensified everything they were feeling about him and knew God was asking them to adopt him. Praise the Lord for how wonderfully He works!

We have been busy trying to shop for all of the necessary items for our trip. Can I just tell you how wonderfully exciting it is to actually see a package of matchbox cars in our home!?!?! Along with those we have bottles, boys' clothes (matching shirts for them...I can't wait for the pictures), formula, lice shampoo, anti-diarrhea medicine, pepto-bismal, perimethrin (spray for our sheets and clothing to protect against malaria carrying mosquitoes), super-strong deet for our skin, clothing that is 100% cotton, baby toys, baby Tylenol and baby cough medicine (it is not that uncommon for them to get a cough while staying at the hotel), hmmm, let's see what else...protein bars, sunscreen, soap that is not "flowery" because that attracts the mosquitoes there, diapers, sandals, and a variety of other items for the trip. This is not to mention all of the other necessary things that need to happen before our trip. Finish writing our will, register with the embassy that we are traveling internationally, figure out what we are going to pack our stuff in, check with the airlines to see if they will allow us to check our bags through customs where our flight originates, finalize our travel insurance, figure out what kind of media card I will use on the trip, etc., etc., etc.

So in addition to all of this planning we are also trying to get all of the necessary documents compiled to complete our dossier...I had really, really hoped that it would have been completed by now. I rest completely in the Sovereignty of God on all of this. It is just so disappointing to feel like it is so far off. I just heard from someone that right now the background checks are so backlogged that it is taking 2 months to get them back. We need that to come back in order to complete the home study, we need the home study in order to complete the dossier, we need the dossier to be authenticated, translated, and authenticated again before we can send it off to Haiti. Each step hangs on something else and we just have to keep pressing on one step at a time. There isn't anything we can do except pray that the Lord will miraculously bring our fingerprint checks back miraculously fast! Please join us in praying for this!

Oh, I just remembered that I also need to get all of the girl's clothes washed and packed for their time away too! UGH! I need to go finalize our travel insurance right now while Matt can help me...if you could just please remember to keep us covered in prayer! We so greatly appreciate it!!!!!!!!!