Whirlwind Summer!!!

This summer has just flown by. So much has happened....so much to anticipate. In the middle of May, Ryan and I moved from Red Wing to Neillsville Wisconsin to live with his family for a while until our house sold. We had both gotten jobs in the Eau Claire area, but had not sold our house. So....bringing as little as possilbe with us, we made our way east. Neillsville is 1 hour from Eau Claire, so I was preparing myself for quite the commute every day. My new job is at Luther Hospital in Eau Claire. I am doing a lot of the same kind of work that I was doing in Red Wing, but on a much bigger and more complicated scale. The first few weeks were very tough ( on everyone I think) and it took some time to get into a routine.

Then....the word came that we had gotten our referral. We got the e-mail on June 11 ( a very nice anniversary gift) that we had been referred a very sweet and beautiful little girl named Delbo Abera. She was almost a year at referral, but very tiny. Most ethiopian children who come into the orphanage are malnourished, so we were expecting that. Our referral came a lot sooner than we had expected. We were told that it wasn't very likely that we would get a referral before August or September that year simply because the Ethiopian courts were closing and we were still a ways back on the list. We were absolutely shocked when the e-mail came, and felt very blessed and excited. However....now we were homeless. We were hoping to move to Eau Claire and get settled before the referral came, but of course God had other plans for our family.

The next few months, Ryan and I went into overdrive trying to get our house sold in Red Wing and start looking for a place in Eau Claire. Thankfully....we were able to buy a house in Eau Claire and sell our house in Red Wing within 48 hours of each other. It truly was a miracle. So....with August rolling in, we packed up our things and moved to our new place in Eau Claire, which we know will be a great house to raise our children in.

I have some other great news, but that is for the next post.....so read on.