God connects us!

I touched briefly on our international student Ooney and JonJon (Blog names) in my autobiography and I get quite a few question on how they joined our family so this is the story about how we became a family of 6.....

Last summer J and I were discussing the adoption....in fact we attended the required open house for the agency but J was still not 100% on board that the timing was right.  J was on a regular banking call to the school the boys attend and the financial manager told him about the need for host families and told J that if anyone in our church was interested to let her know.

Since we were planning to eventually start the adoption process J thought what a great way for us to learn the culture so we would have that knowledge to share with our baby one day.  J called me and ask what I thought????  J gave me the number to the school to ask questions and literally two weeks later we were at the airport picking the boys up.  I quick made pink room into more boyish colors and we were set. (BTW the rooms is not that clean anymore)

It is awesome to see how God has a hand in all of this.  When we were presented with this idea school started for these boys in only 3 weeks.  They were unsure if they would be able to come as a family had not been identified....but God knew.

 Under normal circumstances a host family would need to go through the required background checks and fingerprinting which would take quite a while but due to my daycare all that was done and on file and the school was able to take copies of all that....GOD. 

Second the week they needed to fly in we already had scheduled vacation so we were able to be available for errands and all the things they needed to do to get ready for school and take a little mini trip to the shore which was great initial bonding for the family....GOD.

Third when the representative from the school came out to interview us for a host family she told us there was a monthly host family allowance to help with the cost of food, gas, etc.  Now you can imagine the additional cost of feeding two teenage boys but we were still able to figure a way to set some of the money aside to begin saving for the adoption......Hello there is GOD in the details again.

Fourth we have made wonderful connections in country and one of the boys families said he would like us to allow him to show us around in his country if we come.....GOD.

I could really go on and on about how God is in the details of this whole adoption, we are learning the good, some words and phrases and so on. 

It is really awesome to just sit back realize you never need to worry in life because God has all the details worked out.  You step out in faith and he provides.  I often wonder how many times He looks down at me and says "Child why are you fretting over that.....just leave it to ME because I already have a plan in place".

Over Christmas one of the boys went home to Korea for the holiday's and I must have had my kids ask a million times when JonJon would be coming home we decided they were so part of our family we could not imagine if they wanted to come back to our house next year having to tell them no so we decided to offer them the option to stay as long as they would like....they are part of our family and we love them.  Next year Ooney is a senior and JonJon a Jr. so if they decide to come they could be here for quite a while.   I can only imagine how many times over the summer I am going to here, "when is Ooney and JonJon coming back"....

So that is how we became a family of 6