Relaxing Weekend

Hope everyone had a great Memorial day weekend and also hope everyone took a few minutes to remember all the troops that have fought in wars to protect our freedoms and the ones that are currently serving our country. We are so blessed to live in this wonderful country!

The family had a very relaxing weekend this weekend. We headed up to my parents house in Excelsior Springs after work on Friday and came back home this morning. We didn't have much of anything planned or anything we wanted to accomplish so it was nice to relax. The one thing we did get done was a crib purchased. For those of you that are thinking we are getting ahead of ourselves don't fear. We truly feel called to adopt a child from Ethiopia but if something were to happen where it fell through we truly feel that we will have another child sometime in our life. This way we are prepared. It is a two tone crib, which we had never seen before, so it will work with either gender. We also got a great deal on it so we were happy about that. I'm going to try and put a picture of it on here but I've not real skilled at that so forgive me if it doesn't work.

It was confirmed with Holt that they gave out six referrals last week so we are officially number 17. It was rumored to be seven but turned out to be only six. While we are #17 that doesn't necessarily give a real clear picture of where we are at. If five of the six were boys, which was the case last time then we are probably 4 or 5 for a boy. If it was balanced then we probably truly are #17. Holt also said everything they have planned for is around five referrals a month. We are probably four or five months from a referral but since this is a new program and we are a "pioneer" family this is all subject to change. This will be hard for some to believe but I have actually been very patient so far. It's probably helping that we are so far down the list and once we get to the top five or so it will be a different story. In looking at our schedule we have something almost every weekend from here until the middle of August. That should help with getting impatient. We are also working on our "list" and adding to it. Hopefully we'll get that completed before we travel.