Exciting Week

We've had the pleasure this past week to babysit a 14 month old for a family in our church. What a precious girl! She was alot of fun, but I have a new respect for mothers who have children and WORK! It was a job in itself to get her ready! But, we had a great time and I think Robert and I learned alot! : )

But the most exciting & scary time this week happened on Thursday. We had a little "visitor" in our house, A SNAKE! We took the baby for a walk and when we came back, I just pushed her stroller into the house with us. Well, low and behold, I looked down in the floor a few minutes later and there it was. I thought it was a leaf, but no, it was a very small snake! Scared me to death! Robert was just as shocked as I was and he quickly killed it and carried it out! I managed to convince myself that it must have just curled itself up in the stroller wheel and came right inside when I brought it in. On Friday, I bought 2 boxes of moth balls and now our house and yard stink to high heaven, but I hope it will remedy our snake issue!!!! : )

~A Little About Us~

Robert and I have been married almost 7 years. He is a wonderful man. I am so blessed to have a great husband. His laugh lights up the room and his devotion to loving and serving God is more than words can describe. Our life has changed alot in 7 years. We were married in Canton in 2002 and lived in Florence, MS for 3 years. He worked for Atmos and I worked as a secretary. He felt God calling him back home to Kosciusko, so we packed up and moved! Talk about a change!

His friend, Chad, offered him a job in construction and we settled into our new life in KO. We'd been here almost a year and he was asked to fill in part time with the youth at our church. So he did, and God began to call him into full time ministry. He surrendered to the ministry in June of 2007 and was hired full time at Williamsville Baptist Church in February 2008.

Life really changed then for us both. We are so thankful for our family and our church! God has brought us through so many things in the past three years! He is always faithful to us!

I really started this blog to chronicle the biggest decision that Robert and I have ever made and to make known our struggles and hopefully our triumphs in the coming months. We have prayed for many years for a baby. In 2006, I had a miscarriage and since then have been unable to get pregnant. Through tears, prayers, and uncertainty about our future, we began to seek God's will for a child. We have always known that adoption was an option, but we've never taken any steps to really get the process started. Recently, we were given a gift from some dear friends and we felt it was time to get it going! We started our "adoption fund" and since then, God has provided. Adoption is very expensive, but we know that God will supply all our needs.

Our prayer now is that God will make His will known to us. We are still uncertain as to what country we will adopt from, but we are seriously looking into adopting from Thailand. We have only just started the process and we know it will be a WHILE before we actually have a child in our home. Please begin to pray for us. Pray God will provide financially and also pray for the child that we already know He has in store for us.

Adoption is the perfect picture of God's love for us. HE CHOSE US! What a blessing. Even in our sin and filth, HE CHOSE US!!! I was studying in Galatians one Sunday and came across this verse "Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, the Spirit who cries out ABBA, FATHER. So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir" Gal. 4:6&7. What a blessing!