PTL (Praise The Lord) !!!!!

PTL and the Gift of Adoption Fund! We've been awarded our first grant to help complete our adoption. This grant should cover the majority of the last bit we needed to save and have enough cushion should costs go up, such as traveling expenses.

We're very excited and can't wait for our trip(s) to Poland!

Patience is a Virtue

Patience is a virtue, or so I'm told. We've been told for about 3 weeks now that our travel dates are coming. I told my friend Izabela how they've been telling we'll have dates by the end of the week and then the week comes and goes, and she said that "that is so Poland". So I'm not blaming, I'm just an anxious mama-to-be who wants her children home. Who knows, maybe by the end of all this I will have the virtue of patience :)

Blessings to all who read our blog.

There back.....!

As I mentioned, our miracle kids are back in our lives again and we're just waiting for information on travel dates.


Our son's name will be Bartek Martin....





and our daughter Katarzyna (Kasia) Grace.




We can't wait for you all to meet them.

Jeff & Debbie

Miracles Do Happen!

I couldn't believe it. We got a call from our adoption placement agent, Mimi, saying the children we had lost to their aunt are available to us again if we're interested. If we're interested?!?! Are you kidding, OH YES, we're interested!!!! So once the attorney returns from Gdansk next week, we'll get more information.

Praise God and the miracles He's doing in our lives.

Polish 101

For my non-Polish speaking friends and relatives, here is a crash course on some basic Polish phrases:

English - (Polish) - Phonetically sounds like

Good Morning/hello/good afternoon (Dzien Dobry) Jane Do-bray
Thank you (Dzienkuje) Jane koo-yow
Good Night (Dobranoc) Doe-bra-notes
Good Bye (Dowidzenia) Doe-vid-zen-yah
I'm sorry or excuse me (Przepraszam) Shep-pre-sham
I don't understand (Nie rozumiem) Nyeh roe-zoom-yee-em
Please (Prosze) Pro-sha
Yes (Tak) Tock
No (Nie) Nyeh
I love you (Ja Kocham) Ya Ko-hum
Mom (Mama) Ma ma
Dad (Tata) Ta ta
Rzentkowski (Rzentkowski) Jent-kuv-ski

Have fun with these! Maybe I'll add more later.

~ Debbie

Accepted Referral! - Update/heartbreak

We received some terrible news today. The son & daughter we thought we'd be having have been taken away. An aunt of theirs has come forward and wants to adopt them. Even though the children have been in an orphanage for 2-2 1/2 years and the parental rights were terminated, she gets first rights.

We pray a new door will open to us soon.

8/11/2008

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By the Grace of God, it has happened,Jeff & I are going to be parents!

We officially accepted a referal of a brother and sister to adopt. I'm not listing names yet because we may change them. However, our son-to-be is 10 (as of 6/29) and our daughter-to-be will be 5 on September 14.

The joy we are feeling is beyond words. I guess the excitement is really about to begin!

Please visit often, as we learn more about our traveling itinerary we'll update the site and when we're there we'll add pictures.

2nd Fundraising Attempt

I'm very excited about our next fundraiser! I think it will do well for us. We are running a recycling of cell phones campaign. If we can collect enough cell phones from friends, neighbors and good samaritans and we could raise enough money to complete our adoption. For each cell phone we could earn from .25 to $300, depending on year/make/model.

I'm hoping that people who hear about the campaign will share it with their friends, family and co-workers and create a viral campaign to get the cell phones to us.

We can be contacted at debrez64@msn.com to make shipping arrangements.

So if you're reading this, please pass it on!

Thank you.
Jeff & Debbie