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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Wordless Wednesday
I have noticed that on blogs that the bloggers often post Wordless Wednesday. A post that just has pictures so here you go:
Please pray that we get a referral soon. Love, Dilly
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Feeling encourged... Finally
Adoption really is a journey. We have been waiting a long time to hear something, Anything about our adoption. On Wed. evening I was reading in a devotional book, that a friend has lent me, It's called Ending your Day Right by Joyce Meyer. Here is what it said, "Oct. 12 The Favorable Time, He who observes the wind (and waits for all conditions to be favorable) will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap. Ecclesiastes 1 1:4
When the Lord asks His people to do something, there is a temptation to wait for "a convenient season" (Acts 24:25 KJV) There is always the tendency to hold back until it won't be so difficult. The problem is that in order to accomplish something for God, you have to be willing to leave your comfort zone and take on new responsibility.
God expects you to do something that will produce good fruit. If you do not use the gifts and talents that He has given you, then you are not responsible over what He has entrusted to you. You need to be a person who is unafraid of responsibility and change. It is in the times of challenge that you build your strength. If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak and ineffective. The time to move forward is now!" I photocopied this and put it into my adoption notebook. The I went on to read in my bible, Acts 1:7 It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.
So then on Thursday we got an email that our social worker in South Africa has been approved to start doing international adoptions!! In case you don't know when we started this journey she was allowed to do adoptions then South Africa passed some new laws so adoptions have been on hold for over a year. But now she is ready to getting going again. This is exciting. I know that it will take time for her to get things moving and I still need to be patient and there are lots of families to be matched but wow it finally feels like something is happening.
Yesterday we had a Parent's Night Out - Adoption Fundraiser where we watched children from 5:30-9 and parents enjoyed some alone time. This was a busy night and would not have worked out with out the help of our family. It was a lot of fun and we really feel blessed to have such great family, friends and community support. Thank-you very much everyone! Please continue to pray for our adoption process, Love Dilly
When the Lord asks His people to do something, there is a temptation to wait for "a convenient season" (Acts 24:25 KJV) There is always the tendency to hold back until it won't be so difficult. The problem is that in order to accomplish something for God, you have to be willing to leave your comfort zone and take on new responsibility.
God expects you to do something that will produce good fruit. If you do not use the gifts and talents that He has given you, then you are not responsible over what He has entrusted to you. You need to be a person who is unafraid of responsibility and change. It is in the times of challenge that you build your strength. If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak and ineffective. The time to move forward is now!" I photocopied this and put it into my adoption notebook. The I went on to read in my bible, Acts 1:7 It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.
So then on Thursday we got an email that our social worker in South Africa has been approved to start doing international adoptions!! In case you don't know when we started this journey she was allowed to do adoptions then South Africa passed some new laws so adoptions have been on hold for over a year. But now she is ready to getting going again. This is exciting. I know that it will take time for her to get things moving and I still need to be patient and there are lots of families to be matched but wow it finally feels like something is happening.
Yesterday we had a Parent's Night Out - Adoption Fundraiser where we watched children from 5:30-9 and parents enjoyed some alone time. This was a busy night and would not have worked out with out the help of our family. It was a lot of fun and we really feel blessed to have such great family, friends and community support. Thank-you very much everyone! Please continue to pray for our adoption process, Love Dilly
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Pickle Fest and Salsa making are under way.
T. and I made pickles! This is usually something that my Mom, Sister and I have done together for the past 3 years. We pick a day and make pickles ALL DAY. We make cases and cases of these delicious homemade pickles. We make so many that your hands are sore from scrubbing cucumbers. Your fingers smell from peeling garlic. Your feet hurt from standing all day. Your eyes BURN from that brine. The house smells good at first like dill pickles but then after awhile it is very strong.
Last year my mom wasn't able to join us because she was away. So my sister and I tried to carry on the tradition without our expert leader. I must say we did okay. Most of the jars worked. We could have planned out the day a little better. We did make a few trips to the store for more supplies and we had a shortage of dill. But for the most part we did well. My sister and I figure out how many jars we all get and how many jars we are able to eat a month so that we may enjoy them the whole year long. This year I have some jars left over because we misplaced a case in our storage room. So now we are eating dill pickles everyday because we can!!
This year my Sister is 8 months pregnant and my Mom is away so I roped my husband into helping me. It was our intention to only do a few jars but one thing lead to another and soon enough we had a mini pickle fest happening. The brine has burning our eyes and our feet were tired. We pickled cucumbers, and hot beans. We did good working in the kitchen together.
Then when we are finished I was informed that next weekend my Mom and Sister are coming for pickle fest. So I guess we will be doing more! Which is fine with me because that just means more to eat and more to share : )
A few days before we canned some homemade salsa together. He cut the tomatoes because the juices hurt my hands and I chopped the peppers. Sometimes we use a food processor but sometimes we like the hand chopped texture. This is our second year making salsa together. We enjoy making it and the salsa tastes so much better than store bought that it is worth it.
I need to find some easy canning uses for the sour cherries and apples in our backyard. I'm not sure what to do with them? The next tradition that I want to have is Perogy Fest. Yum Yum! I will let you know if this happens?
-Dilly
Last year my mom wasn't able to join us because she was away. So my sister and I tried to carry on the tradition without our expert leader. I must say we did okay. Most of the jars worked. We could have planned out the day a little better. We did make a few trips to the store for more supplies and we had a shortage of dill. But for the most part we did well. My sister and I figure out how many jars we all get and how many jars we are able to eat a month so that we may enjoy them the whole year long. This year I have some jars left over because we misplaced a case in our storage room. So now we are eating dill pickles everyday because we can!!
This year my Sister is 8 months pregnant and my Mom is away so I roped my husband into helping me. It was our intention to only do a few jars but one thing lead to another and soon enough we had a mini pickle fest happening. The brine has burning our eyes and our feet were tired. We pickled cucumbers, and hot beans. We did good working in the kitchen together.
Then when we are finished I was informed that next weekend my Mom and Sister are coming for pickle fest. So I guess we will be doing more! Which is fine with me because that just means more to eat and more to share : )
A few days before we canned some homemade salsa together. He cut the tomatoes because the juices hurt my hands and I chopped the peppers. Sometimes we use a food processor but sometimes we like the hand chopped texture. This is our second year making salsa together. We enjoy making it and the salsa tastes so much better than store bought that it is worth it.
I need to find some easy canning uses for the sour cherries and apples in our backyard. I'm not sure what to do with them? The next tradition that I want to have is Perogy Fest. Yum Yum! I will let you know if this happens?
-Dilly
Monday, May 23, 2011
May Blog
Some people blog daily or weekly but not me I guess I'm the type of blogger that blog monthly. The real reason that I haven't blogged is because around the beginning of May we were updated that both the CIC investigation (Canadian government) and the accreditation process (South African government) are still not finished. The CIC will give another update in mid July to say that they are either done their investigation or still investigating. I also don't really know what they are investigating? We have been told that its just routine, to make sure that everything is happening properly. The accreditation process our agency and many, many others are waiting for social workers to be approved to work under the new laws and regulations that South Africa has put into place. I just hope and pray that these governments can get things moving and children that are getting older can be placed with their forever families.
Not only are we waiting on these 2 things now some of our paper work such as criminal record checks and others have reached the 1 year mark. (expired) So we have to update these things but I'm waiting a bit because nothing can happen until mid-July anyways. So tough knowing that we started this journey over a year ago. I really did think that we would have our child/children home this summer to be able to watch them play in the lake with KK and Jumping Jack.
We have been keeping busy and that does help pass the time. Jumping Jack is almost finished with dance competitions now just the recital left. KK just can't wait to get the camper out and go camping. The trees in our yard are flowering now they smell and look gorgeous! The weather is getting nicer and I will start planting flowers and veggies soon. Almost to the last month of school that means kindergrad, field trips and fun. So I'm sure June will fly by. Please continue to pray that these governments can get there stuff done quickly so that children can be brought home to their forever families. Check out our Cake Pop page http://www.facebook.com/treatsforafricacakepops all money from sales goes towards our adoption. Love Dilly
Not only are we waiting on these 2 things now some of our paper work such as criminal record checks and others have reached the 1 year mark. (expired) So we have to update these things but I'm waiting a bit because nothing can happen until mid-July anyways. So tough knowing that we started this journey over a year ago. I really did think that we would have our child/children home this summer to be able to watch them play in the lake with KK and Jumping Jack.
We have been keeping busy and that does help pass the time. Jumping Jack is almost finished with dance competitions now just the recital left. KK just can't wait to get the camper out and go camping. The trees in our yard are flowering now they smell and look gorgeous! The weather is getting nicer and I will start planting flowers and veggies soon. Almost to the last month of school that means kindergrad, field trips and fun. So I'm sure June will fly by. Please continue to pray that these governments can get there stuff done quickly so that children can be brought home to their forever families. Check out our Cake Pop page http://www.facebook.com/treatsforafricacakepops all money from sales goes towards our adoption. Love Dilly
Monday, April 18, 2011
No News
It is really hard living your life but still always wondering and waiting if you are going to get the "call". We are on holidays right now making amazing memories with our family. We have been to Disneyland, California Adventure Park, Lego Land, and now enjoying the gorgeous phoenix sun. It is great that we get to have these experiences and it does take my mind off of the lack of news in our adoption.
The hardest thing for me right now is planning and thinking "will we have a new addition by" ... the end of June. Will it be by the end of summer? Will it be by October? uggh I hope so, October is 6 months away... can I wait that long or possible even longer? So many questions and no answer. The blogs I read, the message boards, the adoption agency have no news. It is hard not knowing.
Please pray for the Governments involved to get the paperwork done and allow adoption to start flowing. Thank you for you prayers and support, Love Dilly
The hardest thing for me right now is planning and thinking "will we have a new addition by" ... the end of June. Will it be by the end of summer? Will it be by October? uggh I hope so, October is 6 months away... can I wait that long or possible even longer? So many questions and no answer. The blogs I read, the message boards, the adoption agency have no news. It is hard not knowing.
Please pray for the Governments involved to get the paperwork done and allow adoption to start flowing. Thank you for you prayers and support, Love Dilly
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Being obedient to God
When I first heard the song, "Give Me Your Eyes" by Brandon Heath I knew I loved it. I began praying this song. "Give me your eyes so I can see. Give me love for humanity, Arms for the broken hearted, the ones that are far beyond my reach. Give me your love for the ones forgotten. Give me your eyes so I can see." I felt I was being opened, that God was working in me.
Things in our life all started to confirm adoption. I would stay up late at night reading adoption blogs about international adoption wondering if we really could do it? I knew it would be hard and take a lot. Then we thought what really is stopping us? If God is calling us, why are we not following. The main reason was that international adoption costs a lot of money. But is that a reason to deny God, to not grow our family, to deny a child of the love we have to offer. No. So we jumped in. We know that if God called us to do adopt he will provide a way for us to have everything we need. God calls all of us" to look after orphans and widows in their distress." (James 1:27) This doesn't mean everyone should adopt but everyone is to be concerned for orphans. So thank you to everyone who has helped us through prayer and buying cake pops.
Last Sunday was confirmation that we are doing the right thing. Our pastor talked about being obedient to God through uncertainties. Trusting God through the confusion. We question God, this doesn't make sense. We want answers. I recognize God is creating more than we can even imagine. The future is in the hands of God. Lord we surrender all.
Please pray for our adoption and everyone involved. Thanks for your support, Love Dilly
Things in our life all started to confirm adoption. I would stay up late at night reading adoption blogs about international adoption wondering if we really could do it? I knew it would be hard and take a lot. Then we thought what really is stopping us? If God is calling us, why are we not following. The main reason was that international adoption costs a lot of money. But is that a reason to deny God, to not grow our family, to deny a child of the love we have to offer. No. So we jumped in. We know that if God called us to do adopt he will provide a way for us to have everything we need. God calls all of us" to look after orphans and widows in their distress." (James 1:27) This doesn't mean everyone should adopt but everyone is to be concerned for orphans. So thank you to everyone who has helped us through prayer and buying cake pops.
Last Sunday was confirmation that we are doing the right thing. Our pastor talked about being obedient to God through uncertainties. Trusting God through the confusion. We question God, this doesn't make sense. We want answers. I recognize God is creating more than we can even imagine. The future is in the hands of God. Lord we surrender all.
Please pray for our adoption and everyone involved. Thanks for your support, Love Dilly
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Pink Eye Go Away, PLEASE
We have been dealing with pink eye at our house for over a month now! KK got it first, then it went away for a week. Then he got it again and Strep throat at the same time (poor guy). Then he shared his pink eye with his sister. So she has been home all week with pink eye and a sore throat. And yesterday she decided to share her pink eye with me. I woke up with both eyes glued shut, itchy and red. So off we go to the ER, since no doctors are open on the weekend and we wait. I am starting to get used to waiting. I still am not very good at it but I was prepared. While we are waiting, Jumping Jack throws up because of her fever. So an hour and a half later we get to see the doctor and confirm what I already knew... Pink eye. We head to the drug store to get our prescriptions, cleaning supplies and hand sanitizer. I WILL get rid of this pink eye germs at our house. I am cleaning and disinfecting like crazy and bedding and towels are being washed constantly. I have hand sanitizer and lysol wipes through out the house for everyone to use. We are constantly washing our hands and wiping down remotes, door knobs and commonly touched items. Pink eye go away you were never invited to our house. Love Dilly
Friday, February 18, 2011
New Information
Some new information that we have learned this month:
That the investigation that was supposed to be done at the end of January is now taking longer. We will get an update in 2 months to see if they are done or require more time.
The adoption agency Imagine is merging into our agency Mission Of Tears. We have been told that this will not affect our adoption and should results in better communication and updates.
Our file is still not in Africa.
I am learning that God is in control and to trust in him. He has our child(ren) protected for us and when his timing is right we will be ready. I am kinda getting that nesting feeling again. I want to paint and get bedrooms ready but again I have no idea if we will paint blue or pink. I don't know if we will need bunk beds or a crib?
I really want to travel to Africa soon. But in the mean time I am staying busy with my children here, work and making cake pops.
Thank you to everyone who is supporting us through the purchase of our cake pops. Remember that order are welcome.
Please continue to keep us in your prayers. Love, Dilly
That the investigation that was supposed to be done at the end of January is now taking longer. We will get an update in 2 months to see if they are done or require more time.
The adoption agency Imagine is merging into our agency Mission Of Tears. We have been told that this will not affect our adoption and should results in better communication and updates.
Our file is still not in Africa.
I am learning that God is in control and to trust in him. He has our child(ren) protected for us and when his timing is right we will be ready. I am kinda getting that nesting feeling again. I want to paint and get bedrooms ready but again I have no idea if we will paint blue or pink. I don't know if we will need bunk beds or a crib?
I really want to travel to Africa soon. But in the mean time I am staying busy with my children here, work and making cake pops.
Thank you to everyone who is supporting us through the purchase of our cake pops. Remember that order are welcome.
Please continue to keep us in your prayers. Love, Dilly
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Treats for Africa
What are cake pops? Well let me tell you, They are cake and icing mixed together, put on a stick, covered in chocolate and then decorated with candies and sprinkles. Yum.
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| Bride and Groom pops |
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| Christmas Trees pops |
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| Christmas Bucket |
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| Reindeer pops |
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