As we have moved into this new year I've found my heart doing a little pitter patter of anticipation...could this be our year of an actual referral? This journey has been so long, trying to save and raise some funds just to get to the start of the paperwork trail which finally begun in August of 2014. Then completion of our home study in 2015 and actually being registered in the country of Bulgaria, logged in to the official wait time for a referral in October of 2015. Then hitting our first big milestone of being registered in country for ONE YEAR last October 2016. With that came more paperwork of getting out home study updated. And now here we are officially in 2017!
Ahhhhh, I can hardly stand the thought of it....might there be coming a phone call from our agency that they're holding an actual referral of a little girl who has been pulled as a possible match for our family! This realization literally has me in tears as I sit down to try and put into words all of the emotions flooding through my entire being right now. It's simply surreal in some ways, when we begun eons ago, it was always, "Oh we're not even close to a referral, so for now we just sit in the waiting phase." Yet now there is this drastic turn of, "Wow, could 2017 be THE year? This could be our year!!!" The anticipation of it truly is one of the most exciting times for us, yet also scary with all the unknowns still before us. We are excited for this year though, and will not let the fears associated with this journey hold us back from pursuing this crazy adventure called adoption, we will stay steadfast and faithful as it continues to unfold before us.
Will you continue to join us in prayer as we go into this new year? As we pray this could be our year we also need to move forward with several substantial fundraisers so that we are prepared and equipped to move forward once that call does indeed come! We are prayerfully moving forward with a few ideas and more details will come in the coming months, for now please join us in praying for clarity of this and for the right connections to fall into place. Thank you so much for continuing to pray for us! Our passion to defend the fatherless continues and we're so grateful for the encouragement and support we've felt from so many of you!
All our love, The Stimpsons
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