If you are just joining us, please read A Sister's Love Part 1 . This is part two as written by our oldest daughter Rebecca.
~Jaysean~
Almost automatically the penny pinching and saving started. We cut back on extra trips, extra spending, and just about everything else! The coupons and store ads came out each week, so did the cookbooks. Even though we already made many things from scratch, we baked and cooked more than usual. Our house constantly smelled like bread, not that anyone was complaining. ;)
And as the saving started, so did the "sibling search" as us girls called it. Multiple times a day, Momma would sit down with the computer and go through the different databases and the Reeces Rainbow site. Looking at the different regions.She would look at it with us too. We would look at each child instantly falling in love. Along with looking at it with us, she would with Daddy, as well as alone.
One day, Momma and Daddy found a little boy in Latin America named Jaysean (pronounced "Jayson"). He had the cutest smile and the chubbiest cheeks I had ever seen. After we all agreed we fell in love with him. The praying and fundraising started. We were all praying that if it was Gods will for us to adopt Jaysean he would open the doors and bring the money needed in quickly.
But even through all of the praying and fundraising, something was holding Momma and Daddy back from puttig a commitment on Jaysean. After looking into the requirements for Jayseans region in Latin America, it turned out that we couldn't meet all of them. Taking this as Gods way of telling us we weren't meant to be Jaysean's forever family, we prayed that God would bring his family to him soon.
So, as the praying continued and fundraising was put on hold, the "sibling search" started once again. We all waited anxiously for the day when Momma and Daddy would tell us that they found the one we were adopting.
*More to come*
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