Yeah!!

We were so excited to receive our first cash donation toward our adoption expenses this week. This one small step seems like it has brought us much closer to our goal! We appreciate those of you who have donated cash or items for our garage sale. You are truly a blessing to our family as well as to "the least of these". THANK YOU SO MUCH!

147 Million Orphans Gear Sale!!

We are selling shirts and necklaces from 147 Million Orphans as part of our fundraising for our adoption from Bulgaria.

We have the following items available:
Youth Long Sleeve Tee - Blue ($17)
Youth Long Sleeve Tee - Pink ($17)
Toddler Short Sleeve Tee - Mint ($15)
Toddler Short Sleeve Tee - Pink ($15)
Men's Brown Tee - ($20 - available only through adopting families!)
Women's White Tee - ($20 - available only through adopting families!)
Long Sleeve Vintage Rugged Grey Tee - ($25)
Fancy Baseball Tee with Cream body and Black Sleeves ($40)
Handmade Ugandan Magazine Beads - ($20)

You can view pictured of the items at the 147 Million Orphans webpage, however if you want to order an item please e-mail me (kjakubauskas@austin.rr.com) so that we will get the fundraising credit! If you order directly from the website we will not recive any fundraising $. Thanks!!

Mazes and Connect the Dots

Parts of your adoption journey have felt like we were real life players in children’s pencil and paper games. In the beginning, it often seemed like we were in the middle of a maze. We would go down one path (often running in our excitement) only to discover that that path ended in a dead end. Then we would turn back, find the main route again and continue along until the path again ended and we had to reroute yet again. We had dead ends that said “Haiti”, “Foster to Adopt”, “Russia” and others.

Needless to say, this was a frustrating experience as we were going through it. But in retrospect we can clearly see that all of those twists and turns in the maze were in God’s plan. We had to work our way through the maze to begin to clearly see exactly where God was leading us.

Once we were firmly on the path that God had chosen, He began to give us a series of events that made one of our dear friends say “He’s just connecting the dots for you!” Now it seems as if we’ve completed the maze and are starting a “connect the dots” that will create a picture of our future child!