On Thanksgiving....

Thanksgiving Day is a good day to post on our adoption.

We have a busy weekend ahead of us. On top of the normal traditions one usually does...Christmas tree, ornaments, decorations and lights....we are setting up the boys rooms! We have 2 cribs to put together, curtains to hang and clothes to put into the dresser. Oh, and we're also getting our house ready to sell!! We are soooo excited! Did I say that with enough emphasis? :)

I had purchased an airplane themed pottery barn nursery bedroom set about 4 years ago--2 kids ago. I was thinking surely one of these pregnancies will be a boy, right? Well, they weren't. This is just fine; but in my heart, I knew we were going to have a boy. I still know this. I don't know for sure how, but it's looking very close to becoming reality. Either way, I was not giving that bedding up. So, one crib will be airplanes and one will be boats. None of this really matters, except that it means we will be taking into our home two precious little kids that need a forever home and a family who loves them unconditionally.

Each step of the way is a hurdle to jump over....so far, the lawyer approved the transition calendar. This means we will start bringing them over to our home over the next 2 weeks. And, on December 14th we will have a small ceremony in our home celebrating the finding of a forever home for the boys! Three weeks after this is the first hearing for termination of parental rights. This will be January 5th. After this hearing we will know more about the timeline for an official adoption. The whole process can take up to two years but for us things are moving along as fast as they can at this point. We are thankful to God for this and we just take one hurdle as they come!

Shiloh read some great verses today:

Psalm 146.9 "...the Lord sustains the fatherless..."

Psalm 116.5 & 6 "The Lord is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion. The Lord protects the simplehearted; when I was in great need, He saved me."

Our one focus is to have our hearts set on God. Our loyalties are to Him only. Our hearts are listening to Him and He is calling us to this. There is no way we can ignore it! We are the simplehearted right now; and prayerfully, we will always be defined by this.

Hopefully, we are all thinking on the blessings in our lives. Getting these boys is one of those blessings. It's so foreign to think that our family adopting children that we don't have to adopt is blessing us. We cannot explain that, but even in the midst of the hardest days that are yet to come, I am confident in this calling and we will not falter on this choice. We are being blessed and sanctified through all of this! At this point, why does this seem so easy? It's not! My heart hurts almost daily thinking about these 2 boys who need a home. All we want is for God to be a father to them. We know He will not forsake them. If we can be that vessel to show them a father's love, we will. We are ready and willing.

Thank you for praying for us and for these sweet boys.

Jenny for all of the Fischer family

I just met the boys for the VERY first time ever!! They are so adorable! And, I wanted to scoop them up and take them home. I was very calm, if I don't say so myself! They are very interactive and alert and fun! I have pictures but do not think I am allowed to post them. You'll have to ask for those through email.

Please keep praying. There are sooo many legal hurdles to cross but the strange thing is I am letting God take care of that with no real worry at all! It's usually hard to do that, but this is one of those things that is sooo big. Maybe it is easier to let God just take those big things? The daily is hard to let go of though! I need to preach to myself here!

Please pray for the judge and the lawyer involved that they will be open to the boys staying in our home and letting them move to MA with us in May. We THINK this will happen but it's not in writing, of course.

Well, just know it will be HARD to wait until November 30th!! This is when we start what is a 2 week transition of the boys into our home. I guess I will just spend time decorating a boys' room for the first time EVER!! :)

With love! Jenny for the Fischer family

Well! We have the best possible scenario for getting the boys! Thank you all for praying!! It is quite an ordeal to get them into our home. Because of all their special needs, it is going to take longer than we thought. Your prayers were greatly needed even though we will not be getting them by Thanksgiving. The plan is to have these little boys in our home by December 14th! So, now, it's before Christmas and we will are very thankful for that. I guess it is not the policy usually to do transitions over the holidays. This is an exception they are making. Thank you for praying! We look forward to sending out pictures sometime after Dec. 14th.

Jenny for all

Anyone who reads this..... our new prayer request is for the boys to be in our home by Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is my absolute favorite time of the year and it would only make each Thanksgiving even more remarkable from here on out! However, I know God has reasons for even allowing "bad" things to happen. The level of "bad" things here, would be not getting the boys until the first of the year! We would be extremely frustrated about that!!

So, there are two requests that I would appreciate you prayer warriors praying for: First, that the boys would be able to get into our home within the alloted 2 week time period (which we have already waited 2 weeks) and Second, that Shiloh and I would accept God's timing on this, even if it means putting up with the State run organization which doesn't really care about when they come into our home......Ugh!!

Our meeting is Tuesday at 9.20 am. I will do my best to post another blog afterwards!

Anticipating, Hoping and Praying for God's best!

Jennifer and Shiloh

PS God gave Shiloh a great verse this morning! Psalm 68.5-6 "God is A Father to the Fatherless and a judge for the widows, God is in His holy Habitation. God makes a home for the lonely..."

Waiting.....

It's so funny how this adoption mirrors a regular pregnancy. I am waiting and waiting and wondering and wondering....about everything!! Are they okay? Are they sleeping well? Did they make progress? It's similar to being in the womb.....are they growing? Should I call my doctor? Why do I have to wait so long to see them???

We have not heard when we will meet the boys. We are looking forward to it and I want Shiloh and all the girls to be able to be there, too! It may be during the day and I am not sure where? So we'll have to see who can come for the first meeting. I do get to see them in their therapy session next week! I am posting things as fast as I hear them. So, what you are reading is what they have told us. I am just waiting to find out when we will start transitioning them into our home and how that works and how long it takes!

Please keep praying for so many things. All the things you can imagine....

with love, Jenny for the family