Garage sale part deux

Our next yard sale is on June 18th and 19th. If anyone has any items they would like to donate, please let us know. We are hoping there will be a great turnout for the Cameron yard sales that weekend! We have been working hard to complete our dossier. Chad and I have completed online courses regarding international adoption and we have been notarizing several documents for our dossier to send to Russia. We are fortunate that Chad's bank (Midwest in Monmouth) notarizes documents for FREE for customers. We have been in three times already and will probably be in several more before this process is over. Thanks to Connie for all of her help with notarizing! Today I returned to campus to meet with students for our summer clinic. I will be supervising Monday through Thursdays in the mornings. We are thankful I was able to do this to help us continue our saving efforts. I am beginning to get pretty concerned how we are going to financially pull all of this off; the dollar figures I look at seem unattainable. We are praying that the grant applications I completed this week will be successful. I know there are so many other families who apply for the grants as well; I would not want to be on the committee to decide who gets the grant and who does not. Chad and I remain optimistic that we will continue to find ways to make everything come together. The faces of the boys on our refrigerator are extra special incentives to think of extra ways to scrimp and save! OK, so this is where we are at NOW in the process. Susan, our lovely social worker, has completed our home study report and forwarded it to DCFS. They have to approve it then we can send it to the federal government who will then give us the green light to adopt "officially". The homestudy report will also accompany our dossier to Russia. Once our dossier gets to Russia, it will be reviewed for accuracy and then we will be invited to travel to our region in Russia to meet the boys. Anna, our worker at our agency thinks we will travel for our first time in September. Let's pray that the weather stays dry so that Chad can work as much as possible... his overtime pay is AWESOME! The girls had a great Memorial Day weekend since the weather was superb. They were able to swim in Nana and Papa Mike's pool with their cousins and aunts/uncles. The girls truly are blessed to have so many people in their lives who love and care for them. Please continue to keep us in your prayers as well as the two little boys who have yet to know us.