A week later..

Well, it's been a week since I started this blog. I honestly think we've had so many things happening that I could probably write something each day...but don't worry, I won't.

Since our homestudy completion last Wednesday, we have had so much awesome encouragement and support from our friends and family...thank you all! My favorite was getting an adorable little stuffed puppy from his Auntie Melissa, which I can hardly wait to send to him when we get to finally get to the point of sending a care package.

One thing that stood out to me, was Friday we took Bruk in to the Anoka jail to get his fingerprints for the adoption paperwork (For those of you may not know, we have a foreign exchange student living with us, Bruk, who's from Ethiopia). The sheriff who took Bruk's fingerprints was big, grumpy and certainly had better things to do than our fingerprinting request. However, when he came back out from behind the big steel door with Bruk, he looked at me and said, "no charge. I'm an adoption supporter" and a smile appeared under his big, thick mustache. With that, my eyes welled up with tears, I thanked him and walked out. Now, it wasn't the expense of the fingerprints that we saved that moved me, it was the reminder that God is taking care of this process. We may not know WHO, HOW or WHEN he may choose to help us with this process, but He will, if we continue to trust. And we do.