Thank you

Thank you for staying with our new private blog.  It was a hard decision because the blog has put us in touch with many people willing to help with the fundraiser, an amazing group of people praying for us and the supportive community we have needed through this process.  However, there have been some issues with the former facilitator and we have decided this will provide us with at least a little peace about the situation.

Have you ever just felt that you were tired of dealing with the negative and evil forces that tend to appear in our lives?  That is were we are this weekend.  We have been working hard toward something so good - how can we allow this to bring us down and give us so much stress this week?   We have had other moments like this through the adoption and have overcome them - especially by finding our new agency. Balancing the paperwork, planning a fundraiser, work and my busy family has been a struggle this week, as I have already posted.  I think I could have kept the evil part of the week from getting in my head, if I had not let myself get so stressed about everything else in the first place.  What we really need to do is bring Ana home. We need to regroup and get our focus back.  God has led us to the path we are currently on and we intend to stay there until Ana is with us!
  Tomorrow is Mother's Day.  We will be busy with church, soccer and Kyle's family birthday party.  I am so thankful for the 4 reasons I can celebrate Mother's Day along with the 5th - who I can't wait to hug and kiss and tell her how much we have missed her!  I already received my first present:  Kelton and I were playing M-O-M this afternoon (his version of the basketball game PIG but changed to fit the holiday!)  and he let me win (or so he says, I actually think I am just that good!) 
 I met with some friends today - even in my stressed out state - and watched some new video of Ana.  I wished I could just reach through the screen and touch her, tell her we will be there soon and just ease her mind that this will not be, yet another time, that she is let down by someone who is supposed to love her.

Spaghetti Dinner on Sunday May 22nd  at the Warriors Mark Church!  Hope to see you there!