A New Season

Well, the Cottongim house is all a buzz. The kids have started back to school and loving it! Mommy and Nathan are having a little bit of a hard time getting readjusted. He has been grouchy...I think he misses his brother and sister. He has been getting up earlier too. Noah loves kindergarten and Andrea thinks 2nd grade is fun. She says it is going to be hard this year. They will do great. Noah is worried that he won't make any friends, but I know the Lord will bring the right kids in his path for him to befriend. Andrea doesn't know very many kids in her class, but one of her close girlfriends from last year sits right next to her! Tomorrow I have my teachers meeting for preschool. We don't start for another month and it is only 2 mornings a week. Nathan says he is NOT going to preschool. We will see about that!

We got our amended home study at the beginning of the week. Everything is fixed and it looks great. I sent it off to the secretary of state and to USCIS. As soon as that returns our dossier will be ready to submit. All we will need then is $3000 to go with it. We are praying it arrives. God is requiring my faith to rise up. I saw a teaching the other day on Christian TV about faith and hope. Hope is believing something may come to pass. Faith is believing it already has, you are just waiting for the fruit! I believe God has it for us, we are just waiting for the fruit!

On a fun note, we just got a baby kitty on Friday. It is an early birthday present for Noah. Her name is Roxy Rose. Noah just loves her to pieces. She is not to sure about him, but he doesn't give up on her. She will adjust. Well...signing off for now.