Adoption Update

Well, we've made a few financial decisions this week. We're really going to focus on getting back to doing Dave Ramsey's plan and getting some of these smaller debts paid off. My medical insurance really is bad now that I'm part-time and I've had some medical bills that have sat us back. We're hoping to pay off some of them by the end of the year or shortly after the beginning of next. Once that happens, we're going to begin majorly saving up for the first half of the adoption and getting that started. We're hoping that by the time we get our taxes back, we'll be able to start the whole process. I'm excited and just hope that we can really buckle down and do this. Some of our other debts, we'll just have to keep around until after the adoption to begin paying those off. It's just something that is going to have to happen so that we can move forward and get our baby girl home. We've wanted this for too long to wait anymore. One thing that helped too was that we had to borrow some money from Andy's Dad when we were trying to get back on our feet...he called this week and told Andy that he wanted us to start paying the money that we were paying him every month and put that towards our adoption and in his mind the debt that we owe him is forgotten and taken care of. He just wanted us to put that money towards our adoption now. We felt the need to discuss things as we didn't feel right not paying him back. We told him last night that we had prayed about it and talked things over and for right now, we'd discontinue paying him and focus on the adoption, but later once we have our baby girl home, we'd eventually get him the money as we felt that was only the right thing to do as when we borrowed the money from him, we told him we were going to pay him back. He told us that we don't have to pay him back ever and we told him that we'd see. But that money will help to go towards our adoption as well. I have no idea where that all came from, but it seems little by little the family is becoming more and more supportive of the idea and are getting anxious about it which helps. :-) Anyway, that is our update for now. Things are definitely going slower than we planned, but I have to remind myself every time I get down about it, that this is just going to happen in God's timing...I can't force it along. God has the perfect baby for us and we just have to wait for her and let God take care of all the little details and we must just let it all come together and unfold.