Yikes.....

Wow....I really am not good at this, May 16th was my last update.....oopsie! Well, I did try a while ago but for some reason Blogger would not accept my password....lame excuse, I know, but very true. It actually doesn't matter that May 16th was my last post 'cause not much has happened. Nothing has happened in terms of our adoption....just wait and pray that the list moves along quickly. I am aching for a baby and know that when Gods time is right, then we will add to our family. Congratulations to my friend Natalie, also adopting from China, she and her husband will travel on September 5th to bring home their Annawen!! Their excitement is palpable in her blog...you can read it and see the precious pics of Annawen and her brothers and sister at the link on the side of this blog.



William and Eli continue to amaze me with the speed of their growth.....I am continually telling them to slow down....but no, they do not stop! Both boys are enjoying a very relaxing summer vacation before heading back to school, grades 4 and 1 respectively.



William was baptised on June 29th.....a beautiful occasion and a great blessing to us, other family and church members. He was baptised along with some of his friends...Ethan, Spenser and Ben. His bestest buddy Nick read his testimony making his public profession all the more special. We were so proud as parents and are prayerful that his faith will continue to grow and that his daily life will reflect his commitment to Jesus.




We will continue to enjoy the summer....thankful that, at least, as the days pass quickly we are days closer to our Junebug!

I am so not good at this!!

Man oh man....I find it terribly difficult keeping up with this blogging thing. I have to commit to getting better and using this more often, 'cause when I do I really enjoy it. With that being said, its been a while, so here I go.

Since my last blog terrible things have happened in China.....massive earthquakes in Sichaun province have killed thousands of people, many were children sitting in school. I cannot begin to imagine what people are facing, especially those who have lost their only child. The death tolls rise each day and are expected to for a while, unclean water and unsafe buildings are not a recipe for pleasant outcomes.

I am praying fervently for all China's citizens....but cannot get out of my mind and heart what this may mean for us. I know that this is outrageously selfish and I'm feeling ashamed to type it and see my thoughts shouting back at me from my computer screen. I just wonder if this will increase our wait time. It already seems like forever since the beginning of our journey and like the end is farther from our reach. We have been praying, from day one, for the woman that will someday be the mother of the baby that will be our daughter...now we're praying harder. We pray that she is safe, healthy and happy....wherever she is.

There's No Place Like Home!

Its been a little while since I have posted here, but I have been away! Gregory and I took William and Eli to Florida to visit their Grampie and Grammie who vacation there in the early spring. It was amazing! We have been there before, but I forget how much warmer it is than here in the Maritimes........but with that said, there is no place like home! We were giddy arriving back to the Bay yesterday....fog and all! The boys, who were exhausted, perked up with the arrival of nine friends welcoming them home!!

While in Fla. we hung out at the pool and the beach mostly, laughing constantly at Eli and receiving lessons from William on all subjects imaginable. We spent one day at Busch Gardens and had a blast...if you ever go...Rhino Rally is great, but we enjoy the water and the warmth of the sun best of all, its very refreshing and energizing (even when the water is the ocean and includes a shark about 20 yards away)! Yup, Gregory and I were leisurely shelling and all of a sudden we spot it....a shark looking for a meal, thankfully it found a fish and not US!

Florida is a state of great beauty. Palm trees, pelicans, dolphins, geckos, white sand and people of all shapes, sizes and colours. William and Eli spotted every Chinese girl and imagined the day when we would be enjoying the beach with our "Junebug", then on the way home they talked about Mommy and Daddy arriving at the airport with their baby sister and how excited they'll be. As I have said before, we are already madly in love with our baby...whoever she will be, one thing we know for sure, is that she has already filled our hearts so wherever we go, we take her along!

James 1:4

Well today I was speaking at our church's Hope Mission, a gathering place for the neighbourhood that includes coffee, fellowship, worship, a devotional time and then a warm, home cooked meal for lunch. It is amazing to see the way folks come together each week for this ministry and how those served are so faithful. Some of these people have been though so much in their lives and have come out stronger and some are still on a rocky path, so I had chosen today to talk about James 1:4 which says:

Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

This verse came to me during my sleep one night, after I had been fervently praying about our adoption. I was disheartened at the loooonnng wait ahead of us and thought maybe God has other plans. So in my prayer I asked God to speak to me and tell me if we were on the right path and if we were following His will. His response was for us to persevere and wait on Him and His time, and we would lack in nothing. Keep on the road to our baby awaiting in China. We are at peace with the wait and know that we are on the right path. God is good!

The folks at the mission we pleased (I hope) with my devotional and it was such a great time to share our story.

this is the first...

Well this is my first post ever on a blog, and I am hoping that it will become therapeutic in some way to write about whats happening. The title of my blog is Waiting........, well, cause that is what we are doing. We, are myself ~Susan, my husband ~ Gregory and our two beautiful, wonderful, amazing boys ~ William (age 9) and Elijah (age 6) are waiting for our baby. She will be born from another mommy's belly sometime, somewhere in China, and we are in for the wait. We actually started our process over two years ago.....including paperwork and home studies etc., and now we wait. Wait for news, a word, a picture, a baby.

We are already madly in love with our "Junebug", this is a nickname the boys came up during prayer time one night and its stuck, and are thankful every moment of everyday that we know God will place a baby into our family in His time....waiting is terrible and sometimes downright heartbreaking, but we know that she will be here someday and until then we will pray that we can be patient and her birth mother will know that her baby will be loved forever...and is already.