These are the updates I got today! I just wanted to share with them with you!

Naitile
I was so excited to hear that Naitile has a family! She has a special place in my heart because I was visiting here in October when she first arrived. Naitile is so funny and animated, she likes to make silly faces and dance around. She has the best giggle, too! At times she can have an attitude. I can always count on Naitile to give kisses and hugs. Lately, she has been enjoying playing dolls and barbies with the other girls her age. She’s a very fun little girl!

Naitile
Beautiful, beautiful Naitile! Sometimes I call her “Teeli” for short. We have had fun together this summer. I so enjoy her energy, joy, and infectious giggle. Naitile has been enjoying her summer, playing outside on the jungle gym, jumping rope, and drawing with sidewalk chalk. She is also good at hitting a wiffle ball. A few days ago, she got to come upstairs with some of the older kids and go through alphabet flashcards, and then practiced tracing stencils. Naitile also really likes listening to stories, dancing and singing, and coloring. It has been great to get to know her this summer.

Dentist Chair Again

Well I just spent my morning in the dentist chair
again. But as much as I hate going to the dentist I am not complaining because I am one more tooth from being metal filling free! :-) Once again I had about four hours to try to think about something else.

Of course I thought about Naitile a lot! I thought about what she might be doing right now and what she would be doing if she was here. I thought about how awesome that God choose her to be my daughter and I have to trust that God also equipped her to have a Mom like me! :-)

There was another thought I was thinking about and I hope it's not to deep. I was thinking about how I could not feel the bottom of my face and how nice that is since I had three crowns and five fillings today. But it would not be nice to stay like this forever. Because for instance right now I am starving and eating is not a options. I got a drink to get the (after dental appt.) taste out of my mouth and I have to hold the straw to my mouth to make sure that I have my lips closed.

So like I said it's nice that it was numb for the dentist but staying that way would not be. But there is going to be a little discomfort when the numbing goes away but with that I know it's better to feel that little discomfort than to not feel at all.

Well sometimes when we walk through tough times God allows us to be numb in certain areas so that He can do a little work. Sometimes though when it's time for the numbing to go away and for us to feel again we back away and choose to stay numb. We walk around not able to eat right and not able to drink when needed. We trust more in the past then our Heavenly Physician Jesus.

God is saying all the work is done I just want you to allow yourself to love again, to trust again, and to be open again then the healing will be complete.

See today if I choose to stay numb you would say that my dentist is no good and the work is not complete. But really I choose for it not to be complete and because of that choice I would make my dentist look like he does not know what he is doing.

Wow how many times have I made my awesome Savior look like He does not know what He is doing. Make God look like His healing is not complete. No wonder the lost are staying lost we all walk around numb not able to eat right or drink right.

We serve a awesome God who heals and can make us whole. Make sure today that you are not worried about a little discomfort and allow yourself to love, trust, and be open again in that area that God had to do a little work on. It's time to show the world that God does know what He is doing.

Another Day

Well I was asked to write again and I thought I was doing really good! Well I missed another homecoming and I was sad about it but glad that it still happened. :-) I had to work until around 11pm between meetings and getting stuff done for the next day I was not able to make it. :-(

Anyway today I am kinda everywhere in my thoughts but let me share a scripture that is on my mind. It's II Timothy 2:23-26

"But avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they generate strife. And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will."

So often I would lose myself in a conversation trying to prove what is right. And really that is foolish because the truth always stands! On my heart is many people who don't know Christ or people claim that they know Him and live in a major sin. I had to train myself that instead of getting into a discussion over who was right. Just speak the truth in love and pray that God would grant them the ability to repent.

By the way did you see that if God perhaps will grant them repentance. Don't we serve a great God! See we don't even have the ability to repent without God. Without Him there is no light to expose darkness. How much I love God! He is so cool!

I thank Him for granting me the ability to Repent! I thank Him for being the light in my darkness!

This week think about a person that does not know God and pray that God might shine His light in their hearts. If you tell me the name of the person that you are praying for I will pray with you.

God is big enough! Whatever you are facing this week God is bigger!

Dentist Chair

Well I have not blogged in awhile because I have been busy with work and getting dentist work done. It's so funny how you can have no children and allow God to open your heart to a child and then that's all you can think about.

In the dentist chair yesterday I was thinking about Naitile and how much love God has placed in me for her. (By the way I had 4 1/2 hours to sit in a dentist chair so I had time to think.) Now I know there are some people out there that would say that love just comes natural to them and that is ok. But I know that love comes from God alone and the ability to love comes as a precious gift to us. We then have a choice if we will accept the gift of love. It says in the Bible "that every good thing comes from God". For me loving Naitile is a good gift that comes from God.

Don't we serve a great God! I am just like every other parent that is adopting.....I want my child home now but I was able to take a moment and just thank God for now. My life has already been changed and my heart has to be two sizes bigger. And God through Naitile has already changed lives here and is not here yet. She has made people think about how they love or don't love, she has made people want to know more about Haiti, and she has opened some eyes to see things that they did not know existed. Wow don't we serve a big God that is using our children before they are even here. I had to ask God to forgive me in being so caught up into if and when my child is coming home that I could not see all the wonderful things that He is doing through my child already. Besides He is the one that gave me the ability to love and now I am going to try to tell Him if or when?

I don't even pretend to know what you are facing today. But I do know that God is big enough. We can only love because God first loved us. Take time today to embrace His love. Take time to embrace what He is doing right now and ask Him to open your eyes to what He is doing that we are not seeing. That we may be able to embrace the good things of God now and stop pushing for the future before we are willing to see His goodness.!!

Wow I just love God!!!

Papa Naitile

Jarod is already showing off his great father skills! Jarod has been out of town this week and I can not wait for him to get back.

Jarod talks about Naitile more then I do. We have been tossing around a middle name for Naitile but have not decided on one. Mainly because Jarod is waiting for that perfect name.

I hate it when Jarod is out of town but I am letting his company get it out of their system before Naitile comes home.

While Jarod has been at work out of town this week I have been going to a church service to worship. It has been a life changing week for me. I love the presence of God and I love how he changes His people. I love how He changes me! He is such a great father. As I look at the picture of Jarod holding Naitile, I can't help but to see a glimpse of how God want to hold us and how He does hold us.

See Jarod had to do a lot to get to this point. He had to pursue to win the trust of Naitile. He brought her candy and stayed around her even when she pushed him away. He had to prove to her that he was not there to hurt her.

How much more does our heavenly father love us! He has and is doing all the same things to win our trust because He too wants to hold us and spend time with us. He is crying out to spend time with us today. He is staying around even when we have pushed Him away. He is showing us today that He does not want to hurt us and that He wants to hold all of us today. He has proved His love over and over will you spend time with Him today? Will you let Him hold you today? Will you enjoy His goodness today? Because He is a good father He is waiting.

Hello,

Today I am getting ready to finally send the last pages to our homestudy agency. I am also working this week like a crazy person but I have energy and actually kinda like working!

God has just rocked my boat this week with His love and His goodness. I am always amazed of His love for us.

I can not wait until I can share that love on a daily personal basis to Naitile. I thank God for her.

Yes I have finally got my computer to upload pics but it will not do more than one but enjoy them one at a time :-)

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Wow my first blog

Can you believe that I have never blogged before? Well I was told that I needed to blog now that I am adopting from Haiti. Not only do you can to do all paper work but now you have to blog so you can be popular like the others! Ha HA :-)

Well all I can say is that adopting Naitile effects me and that is weird for me. I don't know what to do most of the time and I am just starting the process. So here is some pictures of my girl Naitile. I will be writing some later but for now enjoy the pics