So it begins!

Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You're off to Great Places!
You're off and away!!
Day 1 of our adventure!

our bags are packed and we fly out at 3:30pm....send prayers our way!

If you wouldnt say it about a boob job...

http://vimeo.com/92651492
This video made me laugh.  Soo true!

Losing my mind!

Last week I lost my health care card.  I hunted high and low for it.  I applied for a new one.  The new one is in the mail but yesterday I found my old one!  So I got all my papers ready to get them certified to be true so we can mail them in.  BUT.  I lost my birth certificate!!  I JUST had it last week, it hasn't left my house.  I've torn my house apart looking for it.  I've even looked in the garbage.  I've looked in between every piece of paper it may have gotten stuck between.  I can not find it.  It is so frustrating to be so close to completing the next step only to have lost yet another thing I need!

Chain Reaction

My dream for our adoption is that it triggers a chain reaction for people to adopt, especially in our home town and church.  There is such a need, both locally and internationally.  I hope to lay out our steps in simple format for anyone to follow for international adoption as we go.  By the end I hope to make a clear laid out list of steps to take, if our research and our journey could benefit someone else on their journey it would be well worth the time and effort and research I've been contributing to it.
Step 1: Apply to the Alberta government, mail in application form ADOP2777 (probably can be found on the government of Alberta website.)
Step 2: After confirmation to proceed begin Part 1 of citizenship requirement (if you go the citizenship route as opposed to permanent resident route) Read everything and do everything exactly as it should be.
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/guides/CIT0009ETOC.asp#certified

We are only on step 2 right now.  Waiting for official confirmation from step 1, then we will contact our agency (Christian Adoption Services) and begin another homestudy.
I hope we are going through this process in order to help others.  Please if you stumble upon this page randomly (especially once our adoption is complete) and need assistance or advice for your own adoption, contact me and I will try to help as much as I can.
Check out the facebook page for Falcos, great things are happening there!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Teaching-the-Children-in-Tanzania-today-for-Tomorrow/470749313042039

Lanky, Curly and Babe in the Impossible Journey

^ that is the title to my childrens story about our lives. 

Sometimes the IMPOSSIBILITY of what we are doing really hits me.  We are embarking on an impossible journey, against all odds.  We are trendsetting, pathfinding, clearing the way.  What we are doing has never (to my knowledge) been done before.  There has NEVER been a Tanzanian adopted to Canada where the adopted parents were not Tanzanian or had not lived in Tanzania for the required 3 year period. How then are we doing this you ask.. well we are putting a lot of faith in a little man who is helping us along the way, a big man watching over us, and some fine print at the bottom of the law which states "unless it is to the benefit of the child."  That little piece of fine print is what will hopefully allow us to bypass the system.  Hopefully.


Lets see what the Bible has to say about Impossible things:

 Luke 1:34-38
34 Mary asked the angel, “But how can this happen? I am a virgin.”
35 The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the baby to be born will be holy, and he will be called the Son of God. 36 What’s more, your relative Elizabeth has become pregnant in her old age! People used to say she was barren, but she has conceived a son and is now in her sixth month. 37 For nothing is impossible with God.”
38 Mary responded, “I am the Lord’s servant. May everything you have said about me come true.” And then the angel left her.

Matthew 17:20
“You don’t have enough faith,” Jesus told them. “I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible.”

Mark 10:27

Jesus looked at them intently and said, “Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But not with God. Everything is possible with God.”

 

Heavy sigh of relief that we believe in the God of the Impossible!

 

 

 

http://claimthevictory.org/blog/2011/03/let%E2%80%99s-move-some-mountains/

http://www.tgm.org/CommandMtnsToMove.html

 

God please grow my FAITH in you!  I`m not always there, I`m not there yet, but help me get there!

You are the God of the impossible and we lift our impossible dream into your hands.
Thank you that you know where this journey will take us and help us to be in tune with your will and your Holy Spirit as he speaks to us!

Amen.

IMMUNIZATIONS!

I hate immunizations, I'm not an anti-vac person.  I don't advocate that you should or should not vaccinate your child and I get annoyed with people who do.  But I still think vaccinations are scary, painful and I just don't like them.  At 10 months I still hadn't immunized Kailum from anything, I intended to start his immunizations after a year and do so on a delayed basis.  But with travel in mind I took him in to get his routine immunizations and MMR as a precaution.  I was thoroughly impressed with the lady at the clinic who spent probably an hour walking me through everything and answering questions.  Kailum got a high fever from the MMR vaccinations and became a cuddly little boy (a very odd thing!) and spent a whole day looking like this:

 

It was a very sad day for him and me, I don't like seeing him so not himself.  So next step is for me and Landon to get our travel vaccinations, including Yellow Fever which I am not excited to get! hopefully I don't look as sad after mine!

The Begining.

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (Matthew 6: 33 & 34)

We are going to Tanzania.  Recently I have had problems pronouncing that word because I was joking with Landon and called it tan-zane-y-a because I think its a little zaney (possibly insane-y) what we are doing.
Phase 1:
Date of departure: May 8.  Date of return: May 25.

Phase 2:
Date of departure: unknown. Length of stay: 6months - 1 year(ish)
For those who may be interested in where we are going here is the website for Falcos Childrens Home: http://www.his-healing-hands-africa.us/

Our plan is to pack up our then to be 11 month old, fly over 18 hours in the air with 1 lay over, try to adjust as quickly as possible to the time zone so that we can serve, observe, enjoy and learn in Tanzania Africa.  We will be joining Jerry and Tammy Backus in their orphanage and help them build a childrens villiage in Arusha.  The goal of that Childrens Village is to be a fully self sustaining 'village' that would house 250 orphans.  We are going to check out everything with the intention of going back and serving for a longer time as we work through the process to adopt a baby and bring him or her home with us.
I have moments of extreme excitement and of extreme fear.  We are stepping out in faith that God will work everything out according to his great plans and purpose.  Good thing we have a good God whom we can trust fully with our lives, dreams and plans...

www.tanzaniayachts.com (photo credit)

 

So there is our plan in a nut shell.  Stay tuned as the adventure continues.