He loves even the stubborn soul

So I am a stubborn soul.  Have been since the day I was born, just ask my mom.  J  I was what I call a “why child” (still am but not as much hee hee) or a “how child.”  When asked to do something I would ask why or how and the answer needed to make sense to me or I didn’t see the point in doing it.  As you can imagine this was very frustrating trying to convince a small child why she needed to do something.  Most times my mom said she would go with “I’m your mother and I said so,” I couldn’t argue that she was my mother and she did say so. 

What does this have to do with anything you are probably thinking.  Well even being a stubborn soul my Heavenly Father still loves and blesses me.  I have seen that love and received those blessing along this bumpy road of adoption.  There have been many times that I thought “Why is this so expensive?”  “How am I going to raise this much money,” or “How am I going to get that much money by that date?”  You know what happened every time….Heavenly Father provided.  He knows my heart and the love that I have for that precious little girl sitting in an orphanage so far away, waiting for a family.  He knows Sophia’s heart and wanting to be loved and hugged.  He is providing for us both. 

He has touched and guided many of your hearts and you have heeded that guidance and donated.  I am so appreciative of you.  I know some off you haven’t been able to donate do to your finances but then you prayed, and left a little love in the comments telling me of your support of my journey and your love of Sophia.  You also spread the word and shared my blog or Facebook page.  Because of that two matching grants were donated to my journey.  Jennifer and Joel Webb, Roofity and their Business partner Seth donated $3,000 to be matched.  Eric and Lisa Pegler set up a $500 matching grant in memory of their special son who was called home to his Heavenly Father at the tender age of 3.  I will be honest, I wanted to raise the $3,500 so I could take full advantage of the matching grants, however I thought I don’t know that is a lot to raise in one month.  I think it was January 10^th I posted on face book that over $600 had been raised towards those grants.  I was excited but thought I still have over $2,800 to raise.  Guess what…two days later my grant jumped over $2,700!!  Yep approximately $100 shy of the $2,800 I needed to get the full matching grant. 

God always amazes me and I know I shouldn’t be amazed in that He has shown me time and time again over the last year the He has this adoption and everything I need to complete it.  I just need to keep on trucking so to speak.  Doing all I can to raise the money and complete the paperwork and He will provide. 

The $ money for the dossier has been raised now on the next step the trips and all that go along with it.  I hope you will journey on with me. 

I have two fundraisers going on right now:

Quilt of Love ($15 a leaf embroidered with your name or $25 for a block you can design or we can do for you) sponsored by Shauna Garcia.

And

This one is for my sports fans! Super bowl square fundraiser pool.  Squares will be generated randomly by a program you can pick your squares.  You make the donation, via the chip in please note your donation is for the POOL because it is a fundraiser squares are $15.   www.footballsquaresonline.com/game/16706   Password: 5853 There will be $500 in prizes

(1^st Qtr = $100 2^nd Qtr = $100 3^rd Qtr = $100 Final Score = $200) all squares must be sold in order for the pool to be valid. 

Feel free to invite your friends!