Check ONE

So much is going on in my head, in my heart. My head is POUNDING, and everything is making me crazy. I get very stressed out with paperwork that I do not understand and the feeling I have to do it NOW as I don't want the process to take one more day than it needs to. I know I need to relax and calm down and take a deep breath. And maybe a Tylenol!

Today we had our silent auction and benefit concert. I had really high hopes for it, but as time drew nearer my emotions and expectations changed.  I was not feeling very overwhelmed with support on this one... I am not sure why- time of day, holiday weekend, location, venue? Whatever the case I was not getting a lot of people telling me they were coming, and just prayed that people would show up. We had SO many wonderful things to bid on, and it was a huge opportunity for a big fundraiser.

I have mixed feelings on the result of the day. Overall I am very thankful for the wonderful people who came out and supported us.  We auctioned off a lot of great items, and I hope everyone is excited about their prizes! We now have plenty of items left which we will set up as an online auction soon, and praying that one will be easier for people to attend;) Yet I am disappointed by the lack of response to the invitation, and get bummed at myself for feeling disappointed at people. People fail us, and we shouldn't blame them! God is there, and He is really the only one we need. Trying to get over myself for these feelings and focus on the positive ones!

In other happy news, we marked Step One of the waiting game off, as we received all our translated adoption paperwork. This was a step that was frustrating me as I had directions as to how to assemble it all, but the documents were in French so I was having issues trying to correspond it to the English translation! I hope I did it properly...  This was the paperwork in which we received their "stories". A sad one to read, but we need every piece to their lives that we can get... Next step is getting the I600 approval, and we should be sending the paperwork in for that Monday, which should take 6-12 weeks to process...

And we got updated photos, where little M finally looks HAPPY! This made my day, and brought the second set of tears to my eye for the day. We received 5 photos of both children, and they are looking very good, healthy, happy, and adorable!!

So thankful for it all!