a girl and her pups and a possibility!

Well a lot has happened since my last post.  I have a friend, who has really become my adoption mentor.  She guides me, talks me down, and gives the best advice.  She has advocated for me before when I had a past issue.  Well she struck again!!!!  Long story, and knowing her, she did it for the greater good so I will not go into details.  I am now able to accept tax deductible donations from Lifesong.  This organization has been gracious enough to collect donations and allow my friends and family to donate money toward my Annie Margaret fund.  I would set up pay pal, but Lifesong states that paypal charges up to 3% to use their services.  I have decided to use good old snail mail.  If you are interested in sending a donation, message me and I will give you the details.  I had to write a letter to my friends and families asking for prayers first and foremost and also for financial support. This was SSOO awkward.  I am a teacher,...

Ok looking back at my last post, I am a little embarassed.  Could I have gotten any more negative?  Here is the reality, the process is long and hard.  I will be faced with many hardships but in the end I will have a child to hold and love and teach abll about Christ.  As I was sitting in church tonight, and my priest was taking about how we are all adopted from God, I realized that I am blessed, truly blessed.  I have a small village of people who are standing beside me during this process.  I will NOT give up.  That rotten devil and pull me down all he wants but I will not allow him to take away my faith.  I am praying to Him to continue with me along this journey and lead me to Annie Margaret.  Blessed be the Name of the Lord!!!!  Here are two reasons to get up every morning!!!

Well yesterday could have been called Colleen and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.  Ok so I stole that from a childrens book but seriously, yesterday.....sucked.  Not the best word in the English dictionary but appropriate for how I felt.  It started at school, with a class that would not stop talking, a class that was so needy at lunch I had all of about 10 minutes to finish my disgusting low fat soup.  After school we had our first staff meeting so my day was extra long.  Well we were surprised with gourmet ice cream, red velvet to be exact.  Oh yea, thanks, sincerely Ms. weight watcher!  It continued with my commute home and getting stuck behind someone who decided they couldn't make a right hand turn in bumper to bumper traffic.  Up until this point, my day could have been tolerable, but then I checked my mail.  I finally heard something about one of my grants.  The one that took me fovever to fill out, the one that mad...

Well there is absolutely nothing new to report on the adoption report.  But that should not be surprising because I still do not have the money to submit my dossier.  The weird thing is that the last couple of days, I have this strange feeling that something big is going to happen.  I cannot explain it but I have this suspicion that my adoption will be moving soon, one way or another.  I seem to be more emotional about my adoption too.  I feel like a whole is in my heart.  I dream about traveling to India and sadly my dreams are not good.  One dream had me forgetting to pack and another had me in India without a child to take home.  I was looking on a website for a big adoption agency to see the waiting children in India and I noticed that they now say India requires two trips.  Can anyone expand on this?  One of the reasons I first looked at India was the one trip deal.  Today is Labor Day.  This is largely seen as the las...