Treasures are being sorted and prepped

For the last week we have been sorting and sifting through yard sale donations. We are going to have an awesome yard sale! There is some really fun stuff coming to us and there will be some great finds for those searching. I love to yard sale and I would camp out at this one for awhile to see all the treasures. I just wanted to give all you bargain hunters a heads up.

So mark your calendars! Saturday September 26th at 7am.

Looking forward to seeing you here!

Yard Sale

We are preparing for a HUGE yard sale. All of the proceeds will go towards bringing home our little orphaned, 4-month old (and oh so tiny) Micah “Samuel” from Ethiopia.
To donate sellable items such as furniture, household items, clothes and miscellaneous goods, please contact me at monicacoombs@sbcglobal.net . We will arrange with you to collect the donations.

The big date:
The yard sale will be September 26, 2009, at 7:00am. The location is 4153 E. Buckingham Way, Fresno, CA 93726 (near the corner of Cedar and Ashlan)

Please email Monica if you have any questions. Also, if you would be interested in helping at the yardsale, volunteers are welcomed!

Please feel free to pass along this message to anyone who may be interested.

Thank you so much!
The Coombs Family

One Month Anniversary!

One month ago today we attended the informational meeting at Chrysalis House that began this amazing crazy journey. Wow! God is so good!

Home Study visits

This week we have been able to complete our home study visits. Thursday we had our long awaited "Home Visit" that we had been preparing for for the last month. Everything went really well. The girls did a good job talking to her and I was able to do my interview without much interruption from our oldest who stayed home sick. We were all very pleased with how it went. We want to thank everyone who was praying. Now we would like to ask everyone to pray for our social worker and her family. Please pray for good health, clarity of mind and God speed for the next few weeks as she is formulating and typing our report. Pray that she will have productive days everyday for the next few weeks. We greatly appreciate it!

A Happy Birthday gift!

Last week Randy had a birthday. For dinner we brought in Panda Express, a family favorite. After we had eaten and were transitioning to opening gifts Randy opened a fortune cookie and this is what it said:

"GOOD NEWS WILL COME TO YOU FROM FAR AWAY"

We thought this was very timely and made us smile.

Happy Birthday Honey!

Our first interview and DVD's

Yesterday we had our first interview with our social worker who is doing our home study. It went very well and we like her very much. We were also very excited to be able to schedule the rest of our interviews for next week! Yay! So we have 1 week to finish getting our house organized and ready. We would appreciate your prayers for this process to go smoothly. We will keep you updated.

Earlier this week we also received two DVD's from our agency with video clips of our little boy. He is so cute! It was very special to sit down with the girls and watch video of their little brother. They asked all kinds of questions and were happy to see him.

A cute conversation

Coming home from school earlier this week the girls and I had a conversation that went like this...

Our oldest: "Mommy, is Micah (Samuel) going to be like a Christmas present?"

Me: "We don't know but we will tell you as soon as we do."

Our youngest: In a very matter of fact way she said, "I don't think he will like being in a box. I think he's going to break out of it."

It was so funny!