The Story of GLA

Help us win a $50,000 grant and feed our babies for a year. Go to http://givingoflife.com/browse/gods_littlest_angels_haitian_baby_ministry/ PLEASE!!!! Go and VOTE!!!! IT is really easy and the prize money would go a very long way at the orphanage!!!

Waiting Practice

I do not rock at waiting..... it is to do with my personality... I am a sanguine and sanguines usually gets really excited about something and then lose interest just as fast.  We don't like to wait =( Don't worry, I have not lost interest in my quest to bring a child home from Haiti. It's not a sprint- it's a marathon !!! 

I will have to work more on waiting-after all, waiting could be the international adoption motto!!  I heard from my social worker this week about the progress of my home study. I was anticipating and patiently waiting for my home study to be completed by the end of September or middle of October. My adoption agency is using a new format for the home study- which means it will take longer for my home study to be written.  It will most likely be not done until November.  A finished home study is a real good thing, it gets lots of other wheels in motion.

Now as I write this, I kind of chuckle, I am actually blogging about having to wait an extra 1- 2 months.... this may be nothing compared to the wait I could go through for my child to come home.  But, this is where I am at in the chapter of the long adoption story. 

Thanks again for reading.....  Shanny O

Happy to Be Back to School

I LOVE summer!!!  Most people do, especially teachers!!!!  Summer is free of work and full of relaxation!!  

For teachers, when the dreaded workshop week (the week before school starts) begins , you continuously answer the same questions,"How was your summer and what did you do? "When first asked the question a few weeks go, I answered," not too much., worked on adoption stuff." Then after thinking about it more- I realized I did accomplish quite a bit this summer.  Besides completing my home study, which included four 2-3 hour meetings with my social worker and gathered a pile of paperwork I also took 10 graduate credits and taught a 2 week K camp in August.  Was I a crazy person? (Don't answer that =) Usually after a summer all that craziness, I would not be ready to go back to school, but this fall is different. 

People talk about "having a feeling of God's peace". I can relate, this back to school season! Earlier in the summer I was stressing out a bit about my home study and other adoption details, but not any more (at least not today)! God continues to shine through me and my adoption journey. He has given me a peace about my paperwork, my time frames and my adoption finances =)

God gave me this verse tonight- I think it is my summer 2011 verse =)

 ²⁶ May the Lord show you his favor

      and give you his peace.’

Numbers 6:26 NLT 

Thanks again for reading !!!