Am I a good enough Daddy

Sometimes I wonder if I will be a good enough Daddy to our new son or daughter. Yes I already have 4 kids, my oldest is 17, my youngest is almost 10. When I watch some of the videos from other families adoptions, I see and wonder, am I good enough to do this? Do I have the fatherly skills I should have? Do I love enough? I am just being honest with the thoughts I sometimes have. I know that God will provide all that is needed, and he will provide just when it is needed, he is an on time God. But just occasionally I begin to doubt. Isn't that human nature. I hate that part of my personality. One thing I know for sure though. I aint turnin back! God has called us to share his love, and thats what we are going to do. I also believe that our new child is only going to make us better parents. He or she will teach us so much more about ourselves, our world and God himself. I chose the name adoption journey as part of our blogs title purposely. It has already been and continues to be just that. A wonderful journey.

Anticipation is making me wait

Now that we have so much activity going on with the home study, the fund raiser etc., I am finding that I am losing patience. I want to get everything done yesterday. I have a new found sense of respect for those families who have already lived the process of adoption knowing now what I do of all that is involved. I remember that old ketchup commercial where the thickness of the ketchup would make the one wanting it on their sandwich go nuts waiting for it to drop onto the bun below. I used to always laugh at that commercial. Isn't it funny how things like this come back to our minds when we encounter these types of situations. Can you hear the song in your mind, " Anticipation is making me wait". We have a friend who has said many times over the past months it's gonna be great when we get our new son or daughter home. I for one, just cant wait to look on him or her for the first time and tell them about God who planted the seed of love for them in our families heart. I look forward to the day when you all get to meet him or her as well.

Save the date

We now have our official date for our fundraiser dinner / auction. It will be Friday night @ 6pm on September 12. It will be held at The Akron Baptist Temple, we will be using fellowship hall. We will be offering a pasta type dinner and plan to have a fun night of activities including a silent auction as well as a verbal offering for those real competive souls-haha. If anyone would like to participate let us know. We are looking for any and all types of donations that can be auctioned for that night. We plan to visit many local business in hopes of securing some neat items for everyone to try and win at the auction. Please tell everyone you can about this and if anyone has any donations let us know. We want this to be a great night for everyone involved. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts in advance for everyones participation.

The latest

We have had internet connectivity problems for the past several days, it was fixed today. In between the last post and now we received our packet of information on the process from Holt. Wow that book is thick. Much to learn Yoda says we have. Our home study orientation is also now set for July 31. Things are starting to get exciting. Just cant wait to meet our new son or daughter. I cant wait to introduce him/her to all of you. Can you imagine the moment?