You may be wondering about the title. This is the amount of money we received from our church's yard sale on Friday and Saturday. As I have said many times, we are truly blessed to have the church family that we do. They are still planning to have a benefit concert for us on May 16. We have requested that the night focus on Praise and Worship. We would love a night to just focus on what God has done for us along this journey and to give Him all the praise that He deserves.
Today was a great day at church. A worship band from West Frankfort Christian Church led our worship today. It was amazing! We then had a fellowship lunch at church. It is always nice to be able to sit around and just fellowship with your church family.
On Saturday, we received our fingerprint appt. We have to go to St Louis on May 6 to have our fingerprints taken again. I have had so many people ask how your fingerprints expire. No answer for that question. We continue to wait for Morgan's clearance from DCFS to complete our home study. Our social worker said that this usually only takes around 4 weeks and we have been waiting 5. God continues to impress upon me that He is still in control. We have to remain faithful to this fact.
Ava is going to be busy once she gets home. Besides all the many visits that she will have, she already has two appointments scheduled. She will see Dr. Leonard at St Louis Children's Hospital on June 25. He is a neurosurgeon that was recommended to us. She will then see her pediatrician on June 29.
Tammy has been busy on getting the nursery ready. Naturally, it is pink. She can finally use pink after three boys. We both are busy working a little extra to prepare for the trip. Baseball is keeping us a little busy. Only one of the boys is playing this year. We are still trying to figure out how we explain the bonding process to our family and friends. The information that we have read advises us not to pass Ava around to others for the first month or so until she is bonded with us. This is going to be hard for us because we know how much our family, church family, and friends love her and just want to show her affection. But we want what is best for Ava and her ability to bond with us.
Continue to keep us in your prayers. Especially begin praying for Ava and her ability to grieve and bond with us.
chicken soup and a flashlight
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1 comment:
Hi! My husband and I are with the same agency as you and your husband. I didn't know we lived so close together until you mentioned Sesser in one of your posts and that you will have to go to St. Louis for your fingerprints-gotta love the Federal building, we are very familiar with it too! We live in Nashville, IL. - small world! We just put in an LOI for a sweet little boy we found on the list last week. I found your blog through Angie Lindsey's who mentioned hers on our Yahoo group. Your Ava (my favorite girl name by the way) is precious! Our nursery is pink because we expected a referral for a girl but that will all have to change because a SON was meant to be our first child so we'll go with the flow and change it to blue! Good luck to you and your family on your journey to your daughter and sister!
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