Sometimes, God whispers. Then there are times that God takes a mallet (or Bible Study Book) and straight up knocks you in the head. It was at Tuesday morning Bible Study that God poured lighter fluid on a tiny flame that was burning in my heart to adopt.
Shortly after Bible Study was over, I called Cody and told him the fire was back. God was telling me that our next baby should be adopted. In a way that only Cody can answer when I come up with an out of this world idea (typically these are just pets or paint colors) he told me to start looking again. Twenty Minutes. That's how long it took for me to fall in love with Collins. I am sure Cody did not expect his phone to begin blowing up with pictures of a little boy that was half a world away and suffered from Hydrocephalus. Rightfully so, Cody was a little nervous. How are we going to care for a little boy that needs brain surgery?!?!
My response was "It's not going to be easy, but we have the most amazing friends and family any two people could ask for, so we can do it."
Then, Cody told me I could call. Our Home Study is done, we have our biometrics appointment set up, and now we are waiting for the call to tell us we can meet our boy!!!
On top of adoption fees, we will have to travel to Ghana twice. Once to meet our boy, and then again after all of the court hearings are over and he is ours!!! As soon as we get home we will have an appointment with a neurologist to address his Hydrocephalus.

If you can help fund our adoption we will forever be grateful! But if you can't we will also forever be grateful for your prayers!! WE love you all!

Several months ago, my husband and I decided to look into adopting a child internationally. The very first place I called to even begin the search shot me down and broke my heart, right out of the gate I wanted to quit.

A couple of months passed, I was sitting in Bible Study with a group of young moms, and one of the questions was "Have you ever felt like you were called by God to do something and one person told you "no" so you gave up completely?" Uh oh! God was talking, and it was LOUD and CLEAR. I knew at that moment He wasn't done with the small flame he had put in my heart, because that question alone turned it into a full blown, five-alarm, bon fire in my heart. I called Cody immediately after Bible Study, and told him we couldn't be done, that we had to try just one more time. His heart was still hurt from the first "no" and he was pretty hesitant. But since he typically just rolls with the punches of my over-the-top ideas he said "sure honey, look into it, and we will talk more." The fire kept burning in my chest. I was a momma on a mission!!

That very day, I sat down at the computer, I began searching Christian Adoption Agencies and came to Night Light. They seemed to be pretty on track with where we wanted to go. Then it happened. I found the "Waiting Children" section, and my goodness, it was all downhill from there! I came across a picture of Collins, his little Bio said that he suffered from Hydrocephalus. That burn in my heart that I talked about earlier, yeah you guessed it OUT OF CONTROL! Call in aerial support because this flame was getting bigger and bigger and there was only one way to put it out!

I immediately, called Cody (he was still a little worried, but he knew it was best just to humor me). I told him about Collins, and that I had known kids with Hydrocephalus, and that IF he would have been born here in the United States he would have already had shunt placed, and would be living like a normal little boy. Again, he said "see what we can do."

So I messaged Carrie with Night Light, and from there folks, the ball started rolling, we were accepted into the Ghana program, we are just waiting on the finishing touches of our home study, and then well of course, there is that whole coming up with money thing! If you feel you can donate to help us save this boy we would forever be grateful! Thank you for taking the time to read about us! If you can, share it, but most of all please, please pray that everything works out so that we are able to get this sweet baby boy some help!