A Small Update

Well, I certainly haven't posted as much this month as I had originally intended!
I've had a few people ask me how far along we are in the adoption process recently, and I wish I knew sometimes.  I do feel that we are moving forward so much more slowly than I ever anticipated, but we are moving forward, which is GREAT!  We are still in the paper chasing stage for our homestudy.  Many of the documents we gather for the hs can also be used for our dossier, but the requirements are a little different for each. 
My assignment for this week was to get my letter of good standing (or bad standing!) from my employer and have a physical exam completed.  Neither assignment went smoothly, but my doctor and employer have both gone above and beyond what they had to do - and for that I am SO thankful!!! (Thank you!  Thank you!  Thank you, Erik and Dianne!!!!)  Sam hopes to have both his employer letter and physical wrapped up by the end of this week.  Our next project will be to complete the essays that we have to write for our homestudy.  I have never been one for writing essays (I get caught up in my perfectionism), so pray for me in this area!
We also recieved more good news financially.  God has blessed me with another little project to make a few dollars this week as well as another huge blessing that I cannot disclose on the blog for privacy reasons (but you can ask me in person if you like!).  All I can say is PRAISE GOD!
Its been a good week here!
Now, I have to admit that I often get frustrated with myself for how little we seem to be getting done with the adoption paperwork, but I have to remind myself that we are both working full time, I have a part time job  and we are running our little farm and caring for our horses! 
This weekend we wrapped up a fence repair project that we've been working on for the past month or so.  Once that was complete, we were able to move the horses to the back pasture and close up the front pasture for the Fall/Winter season.  Sounds easy, but it was a lot of good, hard work!  Thankfully, I have a wonderful husband that I enjoy doing projects with!  We were both so pleased with the work we did and the horses are very happy to be in the back where there is still a lot of good grass.  We should be able to put off "haying " the horses for a while, which saves time and money!
I'll close with a few pictures from our weekend.
Thanks for reading and praying for our children and our family.  We are thankful for YOU!