Blog Resurrected and Big News

This is what happens when you have three kids and a house you plan to totally remodel.....A blog that doesn't get updated for two years!

We have done some renovations to the house in the last two years as well as restore a 1974 Airstream. I will post pics and a brief description of those projects in a few days. However, I have no doubt our house reno's will not keep my blogging current. I do have an alterior motive for this blog. We plan to use it to update our friends and family of our upcoming journey...

Drumroll please....

We're Adopting! We've talked about it as long as we've been married but now seemed like the time. Four kids was always our goal. I thought for a while we'd stop at three but I have a feeling now that we are outnumbered one more is not going to be as big a transition. What's one more right? Our goal is to adopt a little boy around the age of 4. We're hoping to fill that gap between Derek (age 2) and Savannah (age 6). Two boys and two girls seems perfect.

A social worker will be here tomorrow morning to start our homestudy and we've decided to do an international adoption. Our country of choice is Moldova. Why Moldova? Well to be completely honest Moldova fits all of our requirements. They have children that are in the age range we are looking for and they have a relatively short in country stay time. Also Moldova allows for us to get a child in less time than some of the other countries. That being said this is still a really long process. We are anticipating it to take about 18 months. I will post more about the process in a few days.

Our kids are psyched and love the idea of being able to pick the age and sex of the child. Instant brother! The girls, especially Maddy, are already figuring out the sports and things they want to teach him. We are trying to not speak about it daily as 18 months for them will seem like an eternity but we too are having a hard time not talking about it.

For Willem and I, we are busy gathering paperwork and figuring out funding. We are very excited. At the same time we have a heavy heart. We really feel like the Lord wants us to do this and therefore he has a little guy out there for us. And, here's the kicker, he's alive...somewhere...in an orphanage being raised by someone who is not us. So if we can ask anything of our friends and family it is that you pray. Pray that our little boy is doing well, thriving where he is and has a sense that his situation is not forever. We're coming!