Hey everyone-guess where I am!!! Sorry -not picking up my baby- just visiting in Alberta! I am staying at a dear friends house and am enjoying seeing all my old friends. Life is still stressful and full of excitement. We found out on Friday that we are still able to work with our coordinator Jeanna. But then today we found out after calling and talking with ABL that it might not work out as well as we had assumed. Abl also said that they had 8 new birthmoms contract with them this week sooo....I was told they think we will be placed ASAP. Now I am not sure what we are doing! Anyway just wanted to give you a brief update and please ask for your prayers that we would know what situation is the one God has for us. And for me to have patience and no stress well dealing with the rest of this adoption paperwork/phoning all from another province! AAHHH!. I am not sure how long I will be here-yes Claire I am coming back I promise-however it is getting very hard not to be homesick-we went to church here yesterday morning and it was like a big family reunion-it was so amazing to see so many familiar faces and to be greeted and mauled over by all the people we hold dear. I keep asking myself why did we move again! It seems I can't remember all the reasons anymore. sigh. Oh well I am going to enjoy myself immensely while here-we are going to the water park in West Ed mall this weekend with a whole big group of friends and their kids. We are going to my grandmas 95 birthday party which will be a whole family reunion! Yippee! We have already been out for supper with friends, out for breakfast and out for lunch with different friends. Les had to head back today for work tommrow, but thats ok-I can get way more girlie movies in and giggling fits in while he is gone lol! Anyways-I will keep you all posted in case we get the call lol! Hope you are all doing great and I will catch up again later! Bye from Alberta
Erin
Monday, March 31, 2008
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
hmmmmm
Well what to write is the question of the day. I could start off by telling you that we are still waiting for our homestudy to get sent back to us to sign...I phoned Choices today and dug around trying to find out what was happening-apparently it has been sitting on a desk collecting dusk waiting to get sent back to us to sign. GRRRRRRRR double GRRRRRRRRR, however it appears that this has not affected our status with our US agency-in fact I got a call from Loisianna today my heart of course skipped a few beats when I saw the number but alas it was just one of the agencies customer service girls checking in to see how we were and to make sure we didn't have any problems with our social worker. That was very kind of her but I was really hoping it was to say come get your baby.
In other news one of my closest friends is currently in Mexico on her very first missions trip-I am sooo envious, so I was hoping you could join me in praying for her. She has some health issues and was in charge of a group of girls one of whom has some major issues happening in her life. Please pray that she would have courage to share her faith, that she would be given the amazing gift of tongues in Spanish so she can communicate effectively! And pray that God would bring the man of her dreams into her life-because this is what her hearts desire is. Thank you so much.
I probably won't post on here again till next week, I am heading to my folks for Easter weekend and am totally excited because a new dear friend who also just moved here is coming with us! So we are going to do some sleigh riding or horseback riding, feed some chickens, bottle feed a new little calf that lost its mom and go shopping in Vernon and possibly Kelowna ( I found a store there that sells Ergo baby carriers and I want one! that and they have a baby gap there!) Yippee!
So I hope that you all have an amazing weekend and that your remember what makes Easter so special, who we are celebrating-our lord and saviour Jesus Christ who sacrificially gave His life for us that we might live! Thank you Lord for the gift of your love!
Happy Easter
In other news one of my closest friends is currently in Mexico on her very first missions trip-I am sooo envious, so I was hoping you could join me in praying for her. She has some health issues and was in charge of a group of girls one of whom has some major issues happening in her life. Please pray that she would have courage to share her faith, that she would be given the amazing gift of tongues in Spanish so she can communicate effectively! And pray that God would bring the man of her dreams into her life-because this is what her hearts desire is. Thank you so much.
I probably won't post on here again till next week, I am heading to my folks for Easter weekend and am totally excited because a new dear friend who also just moved here is coming with us! So we are going to do some sleigh riding or horseback riding, feed some chickens, bottle feed a new little calf that lost its mom and go shopping in Vernon and possibly Kelowna ( I found a store there that sells Ergo baby carriers and I want one! that and they have a baby gap there!) Yippee!
So I hope that you all have an amazing weekend and that your remember what makes Easter so special, who we are celebrating-our lord and saviour Jesus Christ who sacrificially gave His life for us that we might live! Thank you Lord for the gift of your love!
Happy Easter
Thursday, March 13, 2008
A little paint, and a big mess
Well, it has been a long while since I have posted, however I do have a very good excuse-in fact several! First Les and I finally got around to painting our bedroom-however the day after we had the whole room cleared out and the walls washed and the primer on-we all fell ill to the stomach flu and proceeded to stay in bed (well at least Les got to) or lay around on the couch and have all orfices of your body tormented by small sharp fingers (hmmm I wonder who had that pleasure!) So needless to say-what should have been a two day stint turned into a week long hassle-we finally moved back into our bedroom last night-and ohhhh what a night it was ahhhmmm....hey before you start thinking x rated let me remind you that we were puking for three days!!! I was meaning we got to sleep in our ever so soft KING size bed (a very very wonderful Christmas present!) with clean sheets and duvet and loads of room to wiggle and get comfortable (in case I haven't mentioned it before-Les kicks like a mule and roles over and beats me up in his sleep!) Ohh how wonderful-and then to top it off -no more hideous green walls-instead lovely beige and chocolate brown! Oh I really do love my new bedroom!
Anyways...so after all this you of course realize that the rest of the house was completly trashed-oh wait-it still kind of is!! AAAAAAHHHHH! So tommorows job is cleaning up, because guess what??? We are going to paint the rest of the house!-ok well we have already painted the spare room-oh wait that was me! And now our room is done, so we have hallway, livingroom, diningroom and two bathrooms! I mean really that should only take us hmmmlets see-a month or two! lol well you get my drift, we have been very busy and I am sorry to not keep you posted. I had the immense pleasure of seeing the Watoto childrens choir perform on Tuesday-they are from a Ugandan childrens home and they were amazing-I cried through the first bit -not because it was sad but just to see God at work in such a tangible way. Those children touched my heart and reminded me that God has bigger things for my life someday. For those of you who don't know-I attended Moody Bible Institute for a year because I wanted to be a missionar-and I still do. However I see myself working in an orphange or childrens home instead of teaching school.
But we will see-you never know where or when God's going to change your plans! I will be posting some pictures of the choir as soon as Justine send them to me! hint hint!
I will also post some pics of my bedroom before and after-as soon as I get them developed.
Nothing new happening adoption wise-God has been really blessing me with peace and encouragement-I really want to recommend an amazing devotional-Streams in the Desert by L.B Cowman wow it has been hitting me right where I need it the most and opening my eyes to seeing my Lord in everything.
Well I think that is all tonight, blessings to you all!
In Him
Erin
Anyways...so after all this you of course realize that the rest of the house was completly trashed-oh wait-it still kind of is!! AAAAAAHHHHH! So tommorows job is cleaning up, because guess what??? We are going to paint the rest of the house!-ok well we have already painted the spare room-oh wait that was me! And now our room is done, so we have hallway, livingroom, diningroom and two bathrooms! I mean really that should only take us hmmmlets see-a month or two! lol well you get my drift, we have been very busy and I am sorry to not keep you posted. I had the immense pleasure of seeing the Watoto childrens choir perform on Tuesday-they are from a Ugandan childrens home and they were amazing-I cried through the first bit -not because it was sad but just to see God at work in such a tangible way. Those children touched my heart and reminded me that God has bigger things for my life someday. For those of you who don't know-I attended Moody Bible Institute for a year because I wanted to be a missionar-and I still do. However I see myself working in an orphange or childrens home instead of teaching school.
But we will see-you never know where or when God's going to change your plans! I will be posting some pictures of the choir as soon as Justine send them to me! hint hint!
I will also post some pics of my bedroom before and after-as soon as I get them developed.
Nothing new happening adoption wise-God has been really blessing me with peace and encouragement-I really want to recommend an amazing devotional-Streams in the Desert by L.B Cowman wow it has been hitting me right where I need it the most and opening my eyes to seeing my Lord in everything.
Well I think that is all tonight, blessings to you all!
In Him
Erin
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Sweet Hope
Lastnight I read the following devotion and it was as though the author was speaking to me. And I believe theAuthor of my life was. Here it is:
"Consider what God has done; Who can straighten what He has made crooked?" Eccl. 7:13
God often seems to place His children in places of deep difficultty, leading them into a corner from which there is no escape. He creates situations that human judgement, even if consulted, would never allow. Yet the cloudniness of the circumstance itself is used by Him to guide us to the other side. Perhaps this is where you find yourself even now.
You situation is filled with uncertainty and is very serious, but it is perfectly right. The reason behind it will more than justify Him who brought you here, for it is a platform from which God wil display His almighty grace and power. He not only will deliver you but in doing so will impart a lesson that you will never forget. And in days to come, you will return to the truth of it with singing. You will be unable to thank God enough for doing exaclty what He has done.
"Consider what God has done; Who can straighten what He has made crooked?" Eccl. 7:13
God often seems to place His children in places of deep difficultty, leading them into a corner from which there is no escape. He creates situations that human judgement, even if consulted, would never allow. Yet the cloudniness of the circumstance itself is used by Him to guide us to the other side. Perhaps this is where you find yourself even now.
You situation is filled with uncertainty and is very serious, but it is perfectly right. The reason behind it will more than justify Him who brought you here, for it is a platform from which God wil display His almighty grace and power. He not only will deliver you but in doing so will impart a lesson that you will never forget. And in days to come, you will return to the truth of it with singing. You will be unable to thank God enough for doing exaclty what He has done.
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