TRIAL

About the Trial today.....

We did not hear anything until late this evening. The trial lasted all day long and--bottom line---will not be completed until next Tuesday afternoon. Please continue to pray for the well-being of these little boys. I cannot discuss any of the details but their future is being decided right now. God is the God who commands the sea and creates babies and universes that are beyond our vision. (Job 39-) I know in my head that He can give them to us. But, how do I accept if it He gives them back to someone who cannot care for them? This is a hard situation to take in. I am filled with anxiousness and yet, I am commanded not to be. CAST all your fears on Him for He cares for you. I Peter 5.7.

We need a lot of prayer and these little boys need prayer. Please continue with one more week to pray for them. Tuesday will reveal a lot about which direction this will take. If the judge decides the boys can stay with us, there are still appeals that can be made. The process is sometimes drawn out. I cannot even write that much because it hurts!

I know that God hears everything, feels everything, knows everything, cares about everything... and He will be there whether we get to keep these boys or have to give them back.

Trusting in the God who made us!

The Fischers

"Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift your hands toward Him for the life of your young children." Lamentations 2.19

ROUTINE

Well, Christmas is past us--by one day. But, we are finally into a good routine. It seems as if with any newborn, that they were always with us---that you can't imagine what life was like without them! It's only been 2 weeks time and yet it feels like 2 1/2 years--the age of Jackson. It is definitely busier and I am a little more worn out but it's the good kind of spending all you have for that day. It wouldn't feel right any other way! We're headed out on a family outing and it will be the first time we use our stroller made for 3. Maybe we'll take 2 double strollers and 5 out of the 7 can have a seat. :)

We are just looking ahead to the next step--Jan 5th. Please continue to pray for all these details and the timing. Oh, and our house is now on the market. We are listed in the MLS. Check it out! http://bit.ly/Bellrose and http://360ventures.zenfolio.com/p934789627

I'll try to post some pictures soon. Just know it's amazing that I am even blogging this! Time is money!! It's very precious and not much to spare. We hope everyone had a great day with family and we pray for all you and love the pictures you sent! Now, I guess it's Happy New Year! 2010! What are you calling it? two thousand ten or twenty ten??

with love,

fischers 9

Candlelight Ceremony

Today was our Candlelight Ceremony for our new boys! We lit candles and said some special things about the boys coming into our home. I read a poem and Shiloh read some scripture and prayed. The boys' social worker included her own words. It was great!

Today is the official day that we are now the boys Adoptive Parents. They have passed through so many hands and with God's will they will finally stop here. So many people have been involved and so many wonderful workers. It's so amazing to read their files and then see where their foster mom and dad took care of them. The youngest boy was in the hospital for about 7 months. We know God has cared for them through these amazing people.

The past 2 weeks was crazy!! However, it was great for the boys' sake in transition into our home. Oh and on their first weekend with us they and Shiloh caught a little bug! What a great way we said, to be "baptized" into 7 kids! With Shiloh here, it was manageable. I am soooo glad he was not traveling. Everyone is better now, so we'll see who else gets it. :)

So we would like to tell you their new names. First, they will have a new last name of course! Second, we have chosen Jackson and Everett. Everett is Shiloh's Grandfather's name and Jackson is the boy name we've had picked out for this very day--the day God blessed us with a boy. We just ended up with two!!

We ask for your prayers for the hearing on January 5th. This will determine how soon they can be adopted. I know God is always teaching me patience; however, in this situation, it usually doesn't move as quickly as it is! This would be so perfect to move to MA this Spring with our adopted sons. Maybe this is one time I don't have to wait? If so, there is always more to learn and grow in.

I forgot to add my verse the first time....

John 14.13-14 "Whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it."

Thanks for following our journey and more so for your prayers.

With love,

Shiloh, Jenny, Ellie Jo, Caroline, Georgia, Aubrey, Sadie, Jackson and Everett

TRANSITION

I apologize for not getting any posts out earlier.....but it has been busy!

We started on Monday with going over to their foster home. I got to see Shiloh meet them for the first time! The older little boy was ADORABLE! When he saw us, he just reached out his arms and yelled, "Hello!" He has such a love for life! Shiloh was so into playing with the toys and the boys that at one point boy #1 was trying to get him to pay attention to him and not the toy! But, Shiloh really was great with them, wrestling and just laying on the floor getting to know them. It was great! We did not want to leave...... So! We came back the next day for more playtime. We took them to McDonald's and had lunch. That was fun, too, actually having them out with us all by ourselves. The baby wanted to be near us the whole time and you could tell he felt safe in our arms--which is good! We are going to work very hard on bonding--a word you hear lots of in any adoption.

Today was Physical Therapy and Horse Therapy day. The boys have an hour of this each week. We met their therapist and got to see what sort of things she will do with them. Then, I road up with foster mom to the East Mountains to take them to their horse therapy. This is where they build up the muscles in their core to get more balance and strength in their hips and legs. The boys are improving and enjoying the therapy at the same time! It was great day! Shiloh will get to go next week with them.

All of this is moving quickly for state adoption standards. We are just following along and letting God led us to the next step. We'll go as far as He allows with hopefully having the boys in our home forever.

Thank you for your prayers! Please keep praying about the next step which is a hearing on Jan. 5th regarding their future.

And for just one amazing note, I have to say that by some miracle....we did a lot of nesting this weekend. We put the boys' room together, we bought a Christmas tree, spent a couple of days figuring out how the tree lights were going to work, put up outside lights, decorated the tree, and the inside of the house, rearranged our garage, packed up about 10 more boxes of stuff for storage and whew! we were done. This is more than we can normally do with 5 kids! So, it was a productive weekend!

It was especially fun for me getting to decorate a boy's room, since I have had the bedding packaged up for 4 years now, knowing that one day we would have a boy that would use it!!!

We'll try to post more this week.....

Jenny

PS I added these ads onto the page to get a little more cash....we'll see what it actually brings in. Please let me know if you see something that shouldn't belong! Thanks!

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