Offering Your Heart

I searched every adoption website I could find yesterday. I found two girls I was very interested in. I requested information on them, but I have not heard anything back. Patience, patience *sigh*. One of them is in Colorado and the other is in Florida. It’s funny because when we started this we wanted a girl as young as we could find, but under 10 years old max. The two girls I was drawn to yesterday were 11 and 12 LOL. Who knows where this will lead! Allison, Mark and I discussed it yesterday (the boys don’t really care either way, Allison is the one that will share her room), but we are thinking maybe it would be good to adopt one around 11 or 12 first, start looking to move where we will have more room, then adopt younger. I have some questions for my case worker about that first though.

The girl from Colorado is the one I am drawn to the most. I keep going back to her for some reason. I read her short bio and she would fit perfect I think. She even looks like she belongs with us. She is so sweet and pure looking. Her hair is Allison’s color, but her eyes look brown. She is 11 but her picture looks older. It said she loves to cook and help out. She loves swimming and is polite and social and smart. I would post her picture, but I feel kind of weird about that. If she becomes a bigger possibility I might then. Her picture is on a public website though. If you want to contact me privately I will send it to you.
The other girl is in Florida. She is 12, but looks younger. She is also is very sweet looking. She has long, thick, dirty blonde hair and glasses. Very delicate looking. It says she is shy and quiet. She also looks like she would make a good fit with us. I know they don’t fit my original plan, but I got a strong feeling with them. AH, the choices are going to be hard. We are offering our hearts.
Adopting between states can be difficult too, so I don’t know if they will be a viable option. We will see. I still need to sit down with Mark this weekend as well. It’s very hard to have the time to discuss these things while he is on the night schedule. Not much longer though!

Well the case worker just called and answered my questions. She opened more doors for me to think about now. I told her our plan of moving and maybe adopting again and she told me to remain open. We could adopt siblings, then move. I didn’t think they would let us without more room, but she said we could. Hmmm….. I didn’t know. She said she is getting our information ready on the ones we inquired about.

*(Updates as I type. I got a call from Colorado saying the girl I inquired about is on hold for a possible family and to check back in a month to see if she is available. Maybe she’s not the one.)

Allison told me the other day she wanted to go on a mission trip..
She offers her heart to everyone she knows. She watched a video of the highschoolers in her youth group that just got back from Panama. She said “My eyes got all teary It was sad”. She told me those kids were just excited to get new shoes. She also told me about a little girl her group leader saw in an orphanage. She was there because their dad was abusive, but they decided the dad had changed and sent the kids back to them. They are really praying for those kids. I know there are areas like that and we always tell our kids about other kids that would be so thankful to have a meal, a bath, a pair of shoes. Our kids take things for granted, hear our words, but I guess she needed to see it with her eyes. See kids she knew over in the Panama area. I think she might take after me when it comes to compassion for other children. It really touched her heart. She is the one that urged us to get in to church and she also is responsible for a large portion of the prompting to adopt. She is going to play a major role in this. I am anxious to see where God leads her in life. Not only her, of course, but all my kids. I’m a proud momma *smile*!!!