Thrice Gracious

What a difference a day makes! So, many amazing things are happening.

First of all, about 15 minutes after my soul-bearing post yesterday we got a call from someone near and dear to us asking if they could give us a $10,000 loan until after our scheduled August 12 fundraiser. Shocking. The stress of the day melted away. Getting this money ASAP means that my babies won't have to spend an extra day or an extra three weeks in an orphanage. What a load off. This one is the most amazing of the three and the best evidence that God is working to bring these babies here.

Men's and Kid's shirts

Women's fitted shirts

Second exciting thing is that several people that our adopting from Honduras are placing orders for our leftover Honduras Adoption t shirts...that we had just bought! We probably have close to 200 left, so if you are interested, let us know.  We are selling them at a reduced price and will pay the shipping. $15 a shirt and feel free to buy as many as you want. Someone said that they were going to give them as Christmas gifts! And if you want to buy the rest of what we have, we will sell them to you at an even more reduced price ($8 per shirt). It makes a great fundraiser. You can sell for $20 each which means you profit $12 per shirt. And you are promoting adoption!


The third, and the most feel good thing that has happened is that we just got our babies birthdays and names!!! The little girl actually only has a birth month documented so far. Maybe after some digging, the orphanage will be able to give us a day but as of now we know she was born in August 2010. And the little boy was born July 19, 2011. And before I spill the names, I'll give you a tiny bit of background just so I can drag this out a little smidge longer. :) From the beginning of the adoption process Jonathan and I were very open to keeping the kids' given names as long as they weren't really hard to pronounce. And we were always committed to keeping part of their names as a first or middle name. And after hearing their names we are going to keep both first names!!!! And we will figure out their middle names later. Our new little girl's name is Elsie!!!! Precious. It means Consecrated to God. And our youngest kid's name is Hezekiah. :) Which means God Gives Strength. We love them both. We aren't sure yet, but we are naturally name shorteners and we think we might call our son Ki (long i sound). So, we have Emma, Johnny, Annie, Anderson, Elsie, and Ki. Yeah!

So, we still need to keep praying for these babes. We want them to be safe and well fed and loved on often. Don't stop.