Thankful List for July

Thankful List for July

-LOTS of T-shirt orders through Facebook and Etsy that are keeping my sewing machine buzzing
-home study arrived(7/5)
-realizing Home study still had our names misspelled (7/8)
-home study came back… correct! (7/12)
-FINALLY… putting our homestudy in the mail!!!!! (7/13)
-generous friends (Snow family) who had birthday gifts donated to our adoption and shoes collected for “Orphan Souls”
-being able to buy 21 shirts/onesies to sew on for $26 at Old Navy
-several cool conversations about our adoption (and people being interested in us, and what we are doing, and how the process is going… does my heart good!)
-a fun painting party… the flowers and vases turned out sooo good! (and the yummy baked goods Kelli always faithfully brings)
-HOPE… our monthly newletter from our adoption agency (Buckner) offered us good news for some slightly increased speed in the process.  I didn’t realize until I received it… how much I needed just a little bit of hope for the length of our journey.

And a few random things that have nothing to do with adoption:
-sweet time with our dear friends’ the Cash’s before they moved to Africa
-lots of Shrinky Dinks making in our house
-Tucker:  Why do we go to Hobby Lobby so much?  Me:  Well, how does Mommy make money?  Tucker:  By painting and being married
-a really good report for Libby at her cardiologist check up!!!
-Ben earning $200 extra dollars just a few days before our car needed to be fixed… for just a little over $200
-college students spending time in our home
-a wonderful week long visit from Nana (my mom), Allison (my sister), Kaitlyn (my niece)… sewing, painting stripes, eating peanut butter pie, and laughing so hard my jaws hurt
-watching Tucker serve others