Dreams and Donations.

I have been thinking a lot.

Praying for peace and patience.

I have been keeping my mind busy with prep for the Spaghetti Dinner.

That has helped a lot.

But even still I am still waking up in the night.

I still wake up about twice per night with this nagging feeling.

Some nights are worse than others.

Last night I had a dream that our Baby (who was a girl in the dream *wink*) was hungry and I needed to switch spots with Dave so that I could feed her. LOL Funny story... Feel free to ask Dave about it. Basically, I woke him up talking in my sleep because I urgently needed to get to our Baby. I have had many dreams but that was the first time I woke him up because I was talking in my sleep.

I know that God is preparing us. I trust in His strength. I take comfort in the truths of His word.

Verses like:

Isaiah 41:10

¹⁰ So do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

1 Corinthians 10:13

¹³ No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.

Proverbs 2

¹ My son, if you accept my words
and store up my commands within you,
² turning your ear to wisdom
and applying your heart to understanding—
³ indeed, if you call out for insight
and cry aloud for understanding,
⁴ and if you look for it as for silver
and search for it as for hidden treasure,
⁵ then you will understand the fear of the LORD
and find the knowledge of God.
⁶ For the LORD gives wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
⁷ He holds success in store for the upright,
he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
⁸ for he guards the course of the just
and protects the way of his faithful ones.

These are the ways that God is opening my eyes for my need to COMPLETELY trust in Him.

I have been floored by the amazing amount of support we have gotten.

As of this afternoon...

The Sauce

The Pasta

The Bread

and The Salad

Have ALL been donated for the Dinner!!!

Can you even believe that?

I am still in shock.

I am waiting on a few things. It looks like we might have a few other donations and the only cost to us will be the ingredients for dessert.(tiramisu) Which my amazing oldest sister has willingly said she would make. Teehee!

I haven't stopped praying that our Baby will be here soon. I haven't given up on the fact that we serve a great God. A God that time, distance and money have no effect on.

God is Good ALL the time and I am comforted by His grace for this curly haired country girl like me.

Baby Clothes for Heaven Knows!!

Did you like my nice little rhyming title?

I was pretty excited about it!

OK~

So I have been talking a lot about how I just can't sit around and do nothing.

I remembered that I had a box of little tiny girl clothes that I needed wash and sort.

First of all~ I LOVE Baby socks!! They are so stinking cute!!

These are a few of my favorites!!

I loved a lot of the outfits but I am only going to post my 2 favorites!!

I mostly like this one because of the stars!

BUT this one is so so CUTE!!!

I have NO IDEA whether or not we will be getting a Boy or a Girl but I am ready for either one!! I am getting really excited at the idea of a brand new Baby being in our house.

Tee hee!!

Cupcakes and Cake!

If I was given the opportunity to be a baker and open my own bakery it would be called the "Impatient Bakery".

Today I did a lot of baking.

Starting with Red Velvet Cupcakes with pink frosting.

As I started mixing ingredients together , I started thinkging about how much I love baking.

I don't really love to cook. I am not creative in that way. Baking....hmmm.... just thinking about it brings peace to my mind.

It's fun and not stressful and in the end you know its gonna be great.

BUT!!

I am totally that person who as soon as the cake comes out of the oven I want to slather it in frosting.

I don't want to wait for it to cool, even though I KNOW that if I frost it now its gonna slide all over and make a huge mess.

I have to purposely walk away from my cake. I have to leave it alone and trust that when it cools I can come back and frost it.

THATS WHEN IT HIT ME!!!!

I want so badly to hold my Baby. I want to kiss its face and hold it close in my arms.

I want to wrap it up warm and lovingly feed it a bottle. These are things I want so badly I can literally feel my hands doing them.

My Baby needs some more time.

God has to have it ready for me. So that when the time comes to hold, cuddle and feed my little Baby, much like my cake, it will be worth the wait.

Still moving forward...

I love it when I feel like things are actually going somewhere!

We officially have legal representation! Which is a HUGE load off my mind.

This means that when our Baby finally does come home... I won't have to worry about finding one. I can just sit, snuggle, cuddle and love on our new Baby.

AND Praise the LORD... Our lawyer is right in our home town and handles adoptions often. Very comforting.

Had a nice 20 minute chat with the SW.

Which was REALLY good.

If I haven't told you already she was hand picked for us. I truly believe that God set her aside for us.

She always knows exactly what to say to make me feel better.

She comforted me with the fact that things are moving along at a normal pace and that if she was concerned she would do something.

I really love her.

Ok thats all I have for now.

Peace out cubscout!

Roller Coaster Ride?

So how are you enjoying the roller - coaster ride that is Jeanne Coy?

I know that my emotions can be up and down. Thats all part of the "Living Life Out Loud" I guess.

I was listening to some music this morning while I cleaned up around the house and the song "Strong Tower" by Kutless came on.

Great Song! It got me thinking...

God is my Strong Tower and its when I pull away from Him that my life seems so much more like a roller coaster ride. Actually its more like the ride where they take you way up high and drop you. Up and Down, Up and Down..... But the problem is me.

God is holding on to me and has me safe and I go " Ok God, I got this"

Then down we go!

God has been humbling me.

We have seen God do AMAZING things the last few days!!

I sit surprised ... almost at how AWESOME HE is...

You would think I would get it.

We believe in a God that hears and answers prayers!

Why wouldn't He doing amazing things?

So here I sit again.... Humbled!

So onto ADOPTION NEWS!!!

We had some additional paper work to fill out and mail in. Which actually was kinda nice because I felt like I was doing SOMETHING!!

Then it hit me....

I felt better about the adoption stuff when I was doing something. SO... teehee...

MARCH 12th

We will be having a Fund Raiser Spaghetti Dinner!!

Woot Woot!!

This isn't solely because I need something to do.... but that doesn't hurt!

We need only $6,000 to have this WHOLE adoption process paid off!! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT???

God is so good!!

Details to the Dinner on Facebook!