Praying in 2010!

So, the new year has started and it's officially 2010.   It's crazy to think that yet another year has come and gone.

I spent my New Year's night alone, well, without another human.  Roscoe and Annabelle were here to keep me company.  I was supposed to go to a lock in, but things didn't work out, mainly due to not feeling well.  I ended up coming home, resting for a bit, and then I did what everyone does when they are home alone on New Years....I rearranged our living room furniture.  :)  I just needed a change and it's something I had been thinking about.  Not sure if I like it yet, but we'll see.

Dave called this morning to let me know that I needed to come pick him up and to let me know that our car had been broken into.  A little over a week ago, our car broke down in the church parking lot.  We tried jumping it and it made it to the entrance for the parking lot, but didn't get any farther.  Because it was right before we left for Virginia, we just left it there.  Well, I guess someone finally decided that they needed to see what was inside and busted out the driver side window, the exact same window that was busted out about 2 years ago one day while I was at school.  The funny thing is that there was nothing of value in the car.  They didn't take anything, not even the few CDs that were in the car!!!!  We filed a police report and thankfully, because we saved the receipt, the part that we need to make the car work is covered by a warranty.  :)  Hopefully, insurance will be able to help us replace the window.

On the adoption front, we're working on finding ways to raise money.

I looked into the tax-deductible option, but it appears that in order for this to work, you must be involved with an agency that accepts this or open a bank account with an adoption loan company and go through them.  I'm going to continue to look, but it seems that is not an option for us.

We are thinking about designing a t-shirt and maybe some bracelets.  I thought of putting something like "Praying for Dave and Jen in 2010!" on the bracelets.  I'm sure Dave will come up with some cool design for the t-shirt.  Our problem is that we wouldn't want to order too many and not make a profit, so we're looking for companies and products we can order in lower numbers.  We'll see how it goes.

We are selling DVDs right now.  I also plan on selling my film camera and a few other things.

We haven't heard anything from anybody in the last few days about possible adoption situations.  After hearing about so many, it is somewhat depressing not hearing anything, but I do know that many of them were not in the office this week due to the holidays, so I just have to trust that God is in control.

I just keep praying that this year will be our year, the year when we become a family of 3!

Well, I need to get moving and try to get some things accomplished.  I've got school work to do and while I do love my job, it's sad to think that my break is coming to an end so quickly.