Cold Days...Warm Hearts

This is SO much fun, here I sit in Starbucks in State College, Pa updating our blog! Sipping on some DELICIOUS hot chocolate and listening to this really WEIRD music! But fun none-the-less!

I just wanted to again write and say THANK YOU to all of our family and friends who have agreed to stand in the gap and pray with us for our little one! We cannot begin to express our deepest gratitude and appreciation for you all! I was talking with a customer/dear friend yesterday and she gave me the greatest idea! I'm going to keep a journal of our journey from beginning to end and perhaps MAYBE...one day it might just turn into a book! Who knows! But be on the look-out! Also, as I was perusing down the isles of Target today I saw the cutest thing and got a "great idea"! I purchased our little one's first piggy bank and have decided it will sit in our kitchen as a reminder of "great things" to come! And so if you come to visit and cannot find a use for that "spare change" feel free to deposit it into our little "piggy"! "All proceeds will go to our future trip to Rwanda"!! Ha ha ha!

I hope I provided you all with a little laugh today...just something to warm your hearts on this VERY COLD Pennsylvania winter day!!!!!

Blessings,

Marissa (and Kevin)!

Looking Ahead

Wow! I cannot believe 2009 is coming to a close in just a short week! How time does fly when you get older! But oh what joy we have to look forward to in 2010!!!!

Thank you all so much for the warm wishes and encouragement on the announcement of our forthcoming adoption from Rwanda! We are overjoyed to say the least! There have been times in the past few weeks that I stop and think to myself, "wow, this time next year we (prayerfully) will have a new little one to celebrate with)"! A dear friend told me that this adoption will be like a pregnancy, except on paper. I will experience all of the same emotions of being pregnant, except I luck out and don't have to deal with the dreaded "morning sickness"! I have to say, I am REALLY looking forward to that part! But there is also the anxious part...which I'm experiencing now. It's hard to have to take the time to get "our ducks in a row" but we wouldn't have it any other way. We know that the Lord in HIS perfect time will open all of the doors and allow us to walk through them! But in the meantime we will just have to be patient and "wait on Him"! Sometimes that is SO much easier said than done, but if there is one thing that I have learned through this whole starting a family ordeal is that it is SO worth the waiting! I honestly cannot imagine our lives w/out this new little one that will be coming to us and we do not even know that little one's identity yet (whether it be boy OR girl)! For all we know that precious little gift may be but a twinkle in God' eye...waiting to be created just for his heart-born Mommy and Daddy here in Central Pennsylvania! Oh I just want to squeal with glee when I think about it! I honestly get tingles when I think of our precious little one! :-D (I'm grinning ear to ear at the moment)!!!

But as we do celebrate this special time of year let us all stop and thank God for sending his One and only Son to die for us that one day we might all live again with Him!

Blessings to you all our dear friends and family! Kevin and Marissa :-)