Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Autos, Parenting, Style

If only it were that flashy! Right now, we're wishing we had new cars, were actually parenting mister Miles, and rockin' a sweet style to get us through summer.

Buuuuuuuuuuuut, nope. We are up to our ears in paperwork. Honestly, since we are now working on our dossier, which is the six month paper chase process, we feel suddenly overwhelmed with all the notary needs, signatures, essays, readings, home studies, documentations, and whatnot.

Yet we figure, what's the best way to eat an elephant? one bite at a time...right? Or something like that. So, we're starting small, and setting little milestones for ourselves, and taking peace in this process, knowing that each day is a day closer to our little man's arrival. Our first bite of this elephant? Our autobiographies.

We have been tasked to write autobiographies on ourselves individually (total of two essays). Now, the hardest part is we (non-parents) have to provide an outline of our parenting style. We're excited to dive into our family philosophies, discipline styles, and mission statement! But, I did find these parenting comics absolutely hilarious while researching...

 
And a great reminder... although, I really don't know how to use the word 'zany' in a sentence...

We'll keep you posted on the trends and parenting styles we're forecasting for our future!

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Long Process Remedies

Drew and I talk about Miles daily...we wonder if he's born yet, if he's not, what his mom and dad are doing and going through, we wonder what he'll look like...and we wish, SO BADLY he was in our home already! In prepping for a very long journey (like, 2 years)...we try to remain focused in a few ways.

1. Prayer :) We pray for our little guy daily, million times a day-kinda-daily. Before we go to bed, before we eat, when we're driving, when we're thinking, etc. And, in turn, we've found it to be such a blessing to us to be praying for other adoptive families going on this journey with us, before us, and after us.

2. Reading! Reading books, blogs, magazines, articles, research etc. I'll have to post my favorite books and blogs so far {obviously pre-bringing Miles home, Lord knows I haven't put much to test so far}

3. Enjoy more date nights! We're trying to live up our current state of kidless-ness (totally not a word, but hey! you're picking up what we're putting down right?)

4. We look for inspirational stories, and videos!

Here's the backstory on our favorite family video!

Believe it or not, but these two kids (Hannah and Joseph) were incarcerated in Uganda for street begging, after being abandoned by their parents. They're home now :) And their mom says, "Hannah & Joseph have blessed our family IMMENSLEY and they’ve rescued us way more than we could have ever rescued them."
(Film by Michael Lines ; Photography by Griffin Gibson ; Music: All Things New by BrettYounker.com)



Right? Instant remedy, and tears...every.single.time.

Monday, May 21, 2012

Humbled.

We are so amazingly humbled. Since posting our blog link via Facebook just 12 hours ago, our sweet little blog has seen 1,100 computers. Thank you. Thank you for loving us enough to check out our blog, for your gifts [alreadyyyy], and for your encouragement. Seriously? God has blessed us with such a caring group of friends and family; and we couldn't be more honored.

Love you all, so much.

Keep praying!

Drew + Teagan

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Hello! Or should I say, Selam!

Thank you SO much for stopping by! This is the blog that I'll be using to document our journey to bring our son home from Ethiopia. I'll be posting random things about the process, and how Drew and I are preparing as well as updating things on our Timeline & Puzzle Sponsor page! I hope you enjoy, and choose to stop by regularly :)
Happy day to y'all!