foldover clutch

so already there is a halt in the process. well, to me it seemed like a sudden halt. but to God, of course it is perfectly in His timing. there are some specific requirements in the chinese government that we won't meet for around 8 months, so we won't be able to begin the paperwork for awhile. i feel really sad. but also peaceful. only God can do that. i felt like we had just been getting to where we could run with something that i've been waiting on for (what feels like) a long time, and then it's like we ran into a brick wall. i know He has good things in the waiting. so for now we are going to take this time to pray, study and research, and put money aside.

He has given me some ideas for fundraising - which we won't be doing for awhile now. for now though, i have made a new product for my shop. i hope to rename this clutch in the future when we have a clearer picture of who our baby is, but in the meantime i'm going with the really creative "foldover clutch". any and all profits that are made from the sales of this clutch will be saved toward our adoption. tell your friends! tell your family! tell random strangers on the street! at target and walmart get on the intercom and tell the other shoppers! okay you don't have to do any of those, but if it comes up naturally in conversation - or you have one yourself and someone asks about it - send them my way pretty please.

and in other news.. we are headed on vacation as soon as the kids get out of school tomorrow. this little want to be teacher is excited about the summer but also very sad about leaving her kinder teacher.

abby on the other hand is less emotional about it. they both know we will be meeting up with their teacher during the summers for frozen yogurt. so that helps.

she thought it appropriate to blow on the wazoo in between each page she read. followed by infectious laughter.

also, my birthday was sunday. and so was another little friend of ours. so i got to celebrate with lots of little ones at the park, and then at home with my sweet family of five - someday to be six.

 thanks for all of the wonderful birthday wishes friends!