This post is dedicated to my ADORABLE and BEAUTIFUL new cousin Belyn! I am SO excited to welcome her to our family. My uncle and aunt (Brent and Christi) have been going through the process of adopting Belyn from Ethiopia and TODAY (Wednesday) they have left to go get her and bring her home!!!!!!! I am so happy for them and can feel their excitement all the way from here. This sweet little girl's life will never be the same now. She now has a forever family that will love her unconditionally. She will be home very soon and I can't even imagine the feelings that Brent and Christi are feeling right now as they are about to see their daughter in this orphanage for the last time and will get to bring her home! I thank God that He has brought this all together and I know that He has been glorified and honored in this process.
As for us, we have FINALLY finished the mountains of paperwork that we had to complete in order to turn our home study notebook in. It is now getting processed and we will be expecting a call from our case worker so we can set up a time for them to come to our house and interview us and inspect our house. There was SO much to fill out in this home study notebook that it was almost overwhelming, but you just have to breath and push through it. I'm not going to lie...it almost got to the point of being annoying having to fill out all this stuff. I just wanted it to be done so we could move on! HaHa! So after we get approved by our case worker we just wait. I'm dreading that part...waiting.... It could be short...but it could also be VERY long.
I know I have said this in our previous blog post, but we have raised and been given a little over $10,000. We are needing around 4 to 5 thousand more. My mom and my grandma held a garden party fundraiser recently to raise money for this adoption. They both worked VERY hard to make it a success and we raised around $800 dollars!! We were so thankful to them for their sacrifice of their time and money to make it a success.
We also have a friend, Jerri James who is a 31 Gift consultant. They have so many cute things to buy. Jerri has been so awesome to us. She is throwing a fundraiser with her profits going to our adoption. I can't thank her enough for being so giving. So everybody go check it out!! Buy some awesome things for yourself or for gifts and in turn help us get closer to the reaching our goal!!! LOVE this idea.
Other than that, not a whole lot going on right now, just waiting. We do know that one mother has our profile. One is obviously not very many, but it only takes one mother to choose us to raise her child. So we pray. We pray for whoever this woman is. Pray that she has the courage to make the decision to choose life for her baby. Give her the courage for the decisions that she will have to be making. It has got to be the hardest decision of a life time.
Anyways...we love you all. We are excited. We thank God for all of you who read, who support, who pray for us. We will keep you posted!!
love you all
The Nuzum's :)
