If you are not a Facebook follower to our page, I know that you may have not seen the updates, but we are home after eight days in the hospital.  Emmie is doing great adjusting to her brace and sleeping a tad better.  I’m working on a more detailed post with lots of cuteness pictures interspersed but that will probably come this weekend.

Y the Brave is now “across the pond” and we are all missing him terribly and ready for him to be home. I keep counting and stop at eight and look around confused.  After I do that a couple of times, one of the kids pops up and says, “Mom, there are only eight of us now.”  I knew that.

We have just mailed off our last document to get apostilled and sent two other documents to our agency for our dossier.  Once those three are approved, apostilled, chanted over, and whatever else they have to do, then they will make their way to Eastern Europe.  Joining their brothers to be translated and sent on to the SDA (their child care agency).  And then we’ll await the call to travel.

We have been blessed with a grant!  We would like to use this grant as a matching grant.  That means, if you feel led to donate $5, it will actually be $10.  $20 becomes $40, etc.  So, here goes our first big fundraising challenge!  We would love to see this grant doubled by the end of September.

Of course, more than anything, we ask that you please pray and seek out what God would have you do.  If you feel called to give, no matter the amount, you can go to our Youcaring link.  Youcaring is completely free for us but they do have to take out processing/card fees for the money agency (Stripe, similar to Paypal).  For every dollar given from now until the grant has been completely matched, we’ll add in that money to our site.  Thank you for praying and giving!