Aubrey + Dillon C.

Updates

• Update 7

  

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  November 17, 2024

  374 pieces of the puzzle. It is wild to us that the Lord is working so boldly in our community.

  We finished our home study education this week and got our home visit scheduled for the end of January.
  We are so grateful for our agency that is so informed and desires for us to be as prepared as possible.

  If you would be so kind as to share our facebook post or a link to this site and invite people to sponsor a $10 puzzle piece this holiday season to help us reach our goal, we would be forever grateful.

  Praying for you always,
  The Cooleys

• Update 6

  

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  November 2, 2024

  Happy Adoption Month!

  We are almost 1/3 of the way through what we're hoping to raise! Incredible.

  We have done 3 interviews in the last couple of weeks with only one more until we receive a visitor overseas for our home visit.
  Thank you for your prayers during this process. We are feeling encouraged and sustained by the Lord's goodness during this time.

  If you would please consider sharing this website with your church, co workers, or friends and family we would be so incredibly grateful and we know that only through community will this adoption happen and thrive.

  Oodles of love,
  The Cooleys

• Update 5

  

  Home (a long bit of rambling and a thank you)

  October 29, 2024

  "That house was a perfect house whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing or reading or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness." J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

  As we continue through the adoption process, we have many conversations and dreams and ideas about what our family will be like with kids. There are a great many things to be nervous about. We won't speak the same language, or even live in the country that primarily speaks that language. We won't know their educational history and how much help they will need. We won't understand all of the loss they experienced coming into our family and it will take time to learn how to support them best, and this is just to name a few quick things.

  But there are also a great many things to look upon with wonder and anticipation. What do we want our home to feel like? What makes a home feel like a safe place to a child? Of course our we desire for our house to be safe and comfortable and we'll try to be healthy physically and emotionally. Yes, our family will be there. They will have their own room. They will have their own things. But what about the little moments? The things that feel small, the everyday, the in between.
  There will always be food on the table, games in the cupboard, music playing from the speakers, or even better, lilting from guitar strings or piano keys. There will often be bread in the oven, cookies on the counter, and fresh fruit ready for the taking by grubby little fingers. Crafts will be bountiful and hung on the fridge, books all the more to be enjoyed time and time again, and the cat will hopefully welcome the additions and adopt them in her own way. Movie nights will have popcorn and people will be celebrated for anything and everything. We know there will be adjustments and tears and the hardest of moments but also, we just dream about someday when it's difficult to see what the house could have looked like before there were children in it.

  So, as we began praying and dreaming about all of these things, I also began learning to crochet. I had never made anything more than a wonky granny square or a scarf that ended about 2 rows in, but I became determined. As we have spent time dedicated to our future children, I decided to make them each a blanket. This blanket would be their welcome home gift, made by their mom, to keep forever and help this new house feel a little bit more cozy. I am weaving in the final ends to finish this first blanket and want to celebrate with this community that has helped us come this far and ultimately will help our family come together. Thank you for helping our house begin to feel like a home.

• Update 4

  

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  October 20, 2024

  Happy Sunday!
  We now have well over a quarter of the puzzle completed!
  We are so grateful for our community’s generosity in helping our family come to fruition.

  1. We have a big interview coming up this week if you would please be praying for that as we continue the home study process.

  2. If you would be willing to share this post to your social media and help us spread the word, we are praying to complete this puzzle by the end of the year. It’s a big goal but the Lord is faithful and his generosity abounds.

  We are praying for big things and hope you will join us. Have a wonderful day :)

• Update 3

  

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  October 6, 2024

  We are so incredibly blessed by our community’s generosity. God is so good and you are so kind. In just one short week, we are over 1/4 of the way to our goal.
  Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
  This week if you feel lead to share our story with those around you (work, Bible study, social media, etc.) we would be so grateful.
  We hope our story can inspire others to trust God and his big plans that are always so much greater than anything we can dream up.
  Have a wonderful week.

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