Passed with flying colors...YAHOO

As some of you might have heard, today we finally had our inspection that has been talked about for a long time but finally came to be today. So we headed to town bright and early this morning to go pick this gentleman up at the INFA(sort of like children services) building to come out for the inspection. Once arriving here at Casa he proceeded with his inspection.......checking in the toliets, in the trashcans, in the refridge, and under the rugs and the such for cleaniness. After checking all of those things he said all was wonderful but he made a few suggestions for changes to improve the facility. So really that is all that was required of him but then he proceeded to sit down with us and talk step by step the process of everything in getting kiddos and running a childrens home. He was a HUGE help! He has worked here with INFA for 15 plus years so he had lots of experience and lots of advice to offer. We were more than apprecative for the extra like 4 hours he took to talk to us and explain the ins and outs of a childrens home. He says now that he has done his inspection that there are still a few more things with papers that need to be finished. So we will continue to wait. I was thinking I am going to know what it is like for the waiting process of having a child, it will soon be 9 months that we have been here. We have already waited 7 months and before this is all said and done it might be 9 months. But Gods timing is always perfect! I must keep reminding myself of this.
But anyways thank you all for your continually prayers and the prayers offered for this inspection. It is such a relief to know we passed with flyin colors and are another step closer to providing a home for some kiddo sleeping on the street tonight or maybe some kiddo who has been without food for days. I thank you Lord once again for this privilage.....may you continue to use me to and for your glory!!! May I be your dau. who brings a smile to your heart.

How will you choose to respond.....

"You can't always choose what happens to you, but you can choose how you respond to it."

My prayer is that I am daily choosing HIM in the midist of whatever may be going on. Whether joys, heartaches or whatever may come my way. And that I may always choose LOVE, despite the circumstances around me!!

Romans 8:28 - That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.

My momma

What a blessing that we got to spend Mothers Day with our mommas! God that was a good one when you made mommas.....
After a day out with the boys....
House Building.....working on putting in the floor
The "Poop Mud Adventure" Oh how she loves the children.......
My Momma and Raquel.....she is the one the pulled my moms heart strings
Oh what a blessing the past week and half has been. My mom along with Jen's mom, and a friend got to spend some time with us. And oh what a privilage and a blessing it was to have them hear with us. There is nothing like your momma. Your momma always has the right touch, words, and embrace. When God created our mommas it was a thank you Lord moment. I am a lot of who I am today b/c of my mom and her loving me, mentoring, and encouraging me along the way. It was neat for her to be here and get to experience Honduras and see what I fell in love with. I don't know if she would admit it or not but I am sure of it that her heart strings got pulled by some kiddos. One in particular, Raquel. This sweet girl came to love on my momma and my momma loved her back not knowing it was going to hurt and pull her heart so much. She has no mom or dad and lives with her aunt along with six others, her cousins. She is so concerned about the poverty her aunt lives in, and she has stressed to us how important it is to her that she goes to school and trys to get a good education. She doesn't want herself to live the life that her aunt is . Which is wonderful that her eyes are open and she wants to get out of the poverty and she is trying to do something about it. Never once did Raquel ask for anything, even though she has little to nothing, she just wants someone to love her. One night my mom lay awake for awhile here in my bedroom and every few seconds she would ask well how will Racquel turn out? How will she get a job, and so on. She had grabbed a hold of my mommas heart and she couldn't get her off of her mind.
While my mom was here she also got to experience all of Honduras from the crazy driving to the wonderful food even down to the last day when we had to work our way around the strike going on to get the airport. Now that was a crazy moment. At that moment in time I think my mom was wishing I would go back with her where she knows I am safe with her, but thank you Lord that she is understanding and supportive and knows that this is Gods plan for me at this time in my life.
We are also experiencing problems with the rain while my mom was here she got to "play" in the poop mud with Jen, Mike, and Pablo. And we can not forget the killer beattles, and by the way tonight we saw our first rino beattle, thought that you would like to know that Naomi. Oh the memories she has made that she will get to tuck away! She told me she could easily live here for 6 to 8wks, so you know me I am already waiting on her to come again.
After spending time with the mommas if just makes me wonder what kind of momma I will be. I am just praying that God makes me the momma that I need to be. I know that is what He has me here for right now to be a momma to those who have no momma. So my prayer is that He continues to regin down His wisdom so that I may raise these children up in Him. I thank you Lord for my momma and all of the mommas out there, I pray that you make me daily into the momma that you want me to be. A momma sold out for you!!!