Randomness

I don't really have much new to say, I feel like I've been in another world lately.  God has definitely answered prayers and things have continued to move in Rwanda.  I find myself checking my email obsessively now just to see who else received their approvals.  Please pray that each of these families get their referrals soon.

Here's a random picture I thought you might enjoy.  Our daughter has a way of making everything girly (he was wearing high heals as well, but they kept falling off)!

2010 Book Review

In addition to reading many adoption related books last year, I also read some great books that I would highly recommend to all of you out there.  Please keep in mind too that I'm not a huge reader, so a book has be pretty good for me to actually finish the whole thing.  Here are my favorites from 2010 in no particular order:

The Hole in Our Gospel

Tom Davis (I recommend reading all his books, my favorites are Fields of the Fatherless & Scared)

Crazy Love

Radical

Sacred Waiting (I'm currently reading this one and it's very convicting)

Happy New Year

I can't believe 2010 has come and gone.  I enjoyed looking back at all our pictures from this last year, as our kids have gotten older we have enjoyed many wonderful adventures together!  Looking back at this adoption journey, lets just say its been a rough road filled with unexpected blessings.  We truly believe that sometime this year we will bring our children home.  But what that time-line looks likes we have no idea.  There were more approvals last month, we are praying that this movement continues!

In the mean time I will continue reading more books that have been recommended to us.  Last fall I went through every adoption book ever recommended to us.  Each of the books I went through was recommended by other families who have adopted, our adoption agencies, and Adoptive Families Magazine (which I highly recommend subscribing to).  So for you adoptive families out there, here is the list of my favorites so far:
       1. The Connected Child (by Dr. Karyn Purvis)
       2. When Love is Not Enough (by Nancy L. Thomas)
       3. Adoption Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections
There are many other really great books out there, I went through over 30 of them.  But they all started to get very repetitious of each other.

We wish you all a Happy New Year!!!  Praying that each of you finds ways to bless others in this new year!!!