"Make it pink. Make it blue."

“Make it pink.  Make it blue.”

I’m sure many of you are familiar with Disney’s Sleeping Beauty.  There is a reoccurring scene in the cartoon where two fairies are fighting over what color Sleeping Beauty’s dress should be.  One would zap her with her wand yelling, “Make it pink!”  Then the other fairy zaps Sleeping Beauty with her wand and proclaims, “Make it blue!”  I have thought of those scenes repeatedly over the last few months as our possible matches have seemed to alternate girl, then boy, then girl and so on.  Being the visual person that I am it is almost as though there is a wallpaper sort of background in my mind whenever I think of each child, and so the wallpaper constantly changes from pink to blue and back again.  I am glad though, that it will not be fairies that determine which child, whether in pink or in blue, will be ours forever.  There is definitely comfort in knowing that God knows who, when, and from where he or she will come.  In the meanwhile, each possibility that comes along serves to reignite our hope that our child is coming to us very soon.

We appreciate how faithfully so many of you have prayed for God to lead us to our child and that He would provide the means by which to bring this child home.  We know absolutely that we serve a God who hears our prayers and who is intimately familiar with the desires of our hearts.  We deeply appreciate your intercession on our behalf.  We would also ask that you be praying for the birth parents of our child.  That this might be the circumstance that brings them close to God and that He will give them strength, and grace to make the hard but best and most selfless decision for their child.  Also please pray that He would comfort and heal them as they move forward from that decision.  It breaks my heart that the best day of my life will be the worst day in our child’s birth parents lives.  

We would also like to thank each of you who have made financial contributions to our journey.  We greatly appreciate your gracious and giving spirit.  As a side note, there seems to be some confusion surrounding our donation site.  Some of you have noticed that the account in to which donations are made is under the name Jeffery Sizemore.  This has left some of you thinking you made a wrong turn somewhere.  I assure you that you are in the right place.  Ron and I have applied for several adoption matching grants where a certain organization would match donations made on our behalf.  One stipulation most of these grants have is that none of the money being matched can come from recipients’ account.  In order to have the option of transferring  your donations to a matching account, should we be awarded one, my best friend Kimberly and her husband offered to accept your donations into their account.  Upon receiving a matching grant, Kimberly and her husband will write a check for the total amount of your donations to the organization offering the grant and they will double it.  In the event we are not awarded any matching grants they will write the check directly to our adoption agency.  Thank you all so much for your interest and participation in our adoption story.  We cannot wait to be able to introduce our new addition to each of you.