Feeling Blessed

First, I just want to say THANK YOU so much to all of you who have placed an order or have said you will place an order for a cookbook!  We are so blessed to have so many people support us and pray with us through our adoption.  Feel free to share our blog with your friends and family so they have the opportunity to purchase a cookbook as well.  God has given us the greatest family and friends and we appreciate you all!

Second, our profile is finally online at www.bethany.org.  We are listed with the waiting families profiles.  We hope that having a national presence will help us to be found by our birth mother very soon.  I know that we will hear something very soon.  Feel free to share our profile with anyone and everyone.

Third, things are crazy here!  Trent turns 6 tomorrow!!  I can't believe my baby is going to be 6!  It seems like only yesterday that we brought him home to be our child forever.  He started Kindergarten last week and all ready kissed a girl the first day (He is a Todd!)  He came home yesterday to tell me that he found a new girl to marry, at least it was the same girl he kissed.  I don't know what I am going to do with him!

Thank you Courtney Jo Lemmons for the pictures!  

Finally, big changes are coming to the Todd household.  I can't tell you about it yet, but I will soon.  God is faithful and we are excited to share what He is doing.  Keep checking back and I promise we will tell you soon!

Let's Do This!

Over the last few months, I have had nothing to report.  I know it is just part of the process and though frustrating at times I know that God has His hand in this.  A few weeks ago we had problems with our insurance.  Apparently, we had a problem since February and didn't know it!  You see, if we had a baby placed with us during this time we would have had even more problems with the insurance.  Even though things are still working out, I do feel that God protected us from some major headaches.  Hopefully, everything will be taken care of soon and we will be back on track.

In the meantime, we need to raise $16,150 for our next payment!  Yes, that is A TON of money, but as I have said before, my Father owns the cattle on a thousand hills so $16,150 is pocket change to Him!  Last year we started working on a cookbook.  Many of you submitted recipes and after quite a long time of delays, travels and school we are ready!  It is now time to order your cookbook.  There are almost 200 recipes and I must admit I cannot wait to try all of them!  While I was proofreading, I kept thinking, "I need to try that and that one too!"  I was hungry all the time!!  So, if you would like to purchase a cookbook, click on the button at the side for Cookbook Fundraiser.  Each book is $10.  If you would like them shipped to you there is a choice for a cookbook + shipping.  If you would like to order more than 4 please let me know and I can email you an invoice.  I plan to order the cookbooks on September 7th so make sure you place your order so I get enough.