Christmas came and went in a hurry. I was blessed to have my sister and 2 of her friends with me for 5 days and we spent the holidays with parts of Scott's family outside of Albuquerque. We had a great time.
4 days ago I went out to bring in a couple of our horses and slipped and fell on the new snow we where getting. Kinda hurt a little right away but nothing bad. So I thought. The longer the day went the weirder my hand felt. Not as much power to grip and grab stuff so I was wondering what I was going to feel like the next morning. My suspicion was right. I woke up and the pain I felt when I tried to use my left arm was BAD:( Went to the doctor and once more in my life my left biceps tendon had gotten hurt. They told me to keep my arm in a sling for three days.
I was not excited! And on top of that our weather turned bad so my horses needed extra attention to stay warm but it had to be done by someone else. Hard for me to just accept and trust that they where in good hands.
3 days of being still and letting Scott take care of me has been very hard but good. ( He does a great job:) I talked to one of my dear friends the day before I got hurt that earlier this fall broke her foot. She is like me a person that always is on her way to the next thing. Also very self sufficient. And she told me about her experience of needing help. Not knowing I would be in a similar situation just 2 days later I was feeling for her. But today I really feel for her. I also do think it is good for us busy bodies to have to sit for a while and have time to reflect on life and accept help from others.
So as you probably understand a lot of my thoughts has gone to my kids. How are they doing? What do they look like? How much and how is our life going to change when they get here? How is the process going to be in Ukraine? One day I felt really sad for the biological parents of our babies. What has been going on in their lives that they had to give up the rights to their kids? What has our kids been through before they come to us?
Lost of speculation that has led to more prayer. Cause no matter how much I speculate I won't know till later but I can always pray. And I pray that God will send his angels around them, that they will know that HE is their father and that they will experience his love this very moment.
We don't have any news at this point. Pretty soon we will have to start gathering all the papers all over again. Just tedious work but nothing hard.
Tomorrow I'll be going back to work and please pray that I will have no lingering pain from this accident.
Stay warm out there!
Blessings D
2011-01-02
2010-11-20
Another step on our journey!
Wow, amazing, huge, emotional, scary, concerned, excited, priviliged, thankful, thoughtful and the list can go on when it comes to our adoption.
Today we spent the morning in class in Denver at the adoptionagency which we have done our homestudy through. It was about developmental issues. What happens to a kid that doesn't get fed enough at a young age? And then all of a sudden have access to all this food. How are they going to cope with the language switch?Will they be able to go from Ukrainian to English and Swedish? How do you help them to improve their motor skills. What does cognitive learning mean? And a whole bunch of other topics. Very interesting and it gave us many new things to discuss, which we also did during our 6 hour drive home.
This morning made us feel a little more prepared for what we are in for. It gave a whole bunch of new thoughts and questions. But most of all I think it made us more excited about the journey we are on. The thoughts became more real and guesses turned into facts.
A feeling that came over me very strongly and that has been growing in me lately is that I feel so blessed that we are able to go through this. Feels like a privilge! I can't wait to get to go and pick those kiddos up.
Wishing all you americans a Happy Thanksgiving and to all you swedes I wish you an amazing Advent.
D
Today we spent the morning in class in Denver at the adoptionagency which we have done our homestudy through. It was about developmental issues. What happens to a kid that doesn't get fed enough at a young age? And then all of a sudden have access to all this food. How are they going to cope with the language switch?Will they be able to go from Ukrainian to English and Swedish? How do you help them to improve their motor skills. What does cognitive learning mean? And a whole bunch of other topics. Very interesting and it gave us many new things to discuss, which we also did during our 6 hour drive home.
This morning made us feel a little more prepared for what we are in for. It gave a whole bunch of new thoughts and questions. But most of all I think it made us more excited about the journey we are on. The thoughts became more real and guesses turned into facts.
A feeling that came over me very strongly and that has been growing in me lately is that I feel so blessed that we are able to go through this. Feels like a privilge! I can't wait to get to go and pick those kiddos up.
Wishing all you americans a Happy Thanksgiving and to all you swedes I wish you an amazing Advent.
D
2010-09-22
Home again!
Sitting by my kitchen counter enjoying a good cup of tea. My big dog Svea wants to go out and get muddy, my cat finally laid down after a good wrestle with Svea, and I'm just enjoying being home in my house again after 10 days gone. Lots of things has happened. The trip was good but it didn't turn out as I expected. God has once more showed me his way in life.
I went to California with my bosses and a co rider to show 4 of our horses in the American Nationals for Welsh Cobs. It started out with lots of laughter and fun. Showing horses went well and everyone was happy. Unfortunately it all changed when I won Ridden Welsh Classic which is THE class and my co rider took second. My co rider got angry and stopped talking to me. After a couple of days of really weird situations he finally lashed out at me and told me all kinds of lies.
I first of all was in shock over his accusations since I hadn't done anything wrong and then I got both mad and sad. After sharing what happened to the love of my life and greatest supporter we decided to pray about it all. And God showed me over and over about forgiving our enemies. I was reading a book on our 2 day long trip home which I can highly recommend called" An echo in the darkness" by Francine Rivers. The book spoke to my heart since it is about a girl that gets sent to the lions, survives and then return to serve and love the woman who sent her there in the first place. God is in control and his will is for us to love not condemn.
It is not easy and I'm not there yet but I know my desire is to serve my Lord and Savior and sometimes he makes us walk an extra mile. What that is is still to be reveled to me.
Other than that God has shown us in many ways in the last couple of months that he is in control and that he will make it possible for us to bring our kiddos home. Our homestudy is in Ukranie:) We found a renter for our trailer. And God blessed our concert amazingly. Our big prayer request now is for Scotts bike to be sold.
In two weeks I will go on another trip. THis time I'm heading home:) My little little sis is getting married. She found her prince and now they are starting the journey of their lives. I am super excited for them and to get to see lots of good friends and spend some quality time face to face with mi familia. Can't wait!
Hope that life is treating you well out there!
Lots of love,
D
2010-06-22
Apologize!
I am so sorry it has taken this long before I posted another update. Lots of reasons of course and mostly because life has been really busy. I do have news about the adoption and one big one is that we now have done 4 out of 5 interviews for our homestudy. It was not as bad as we had anticipated. Since we are pretty used to being transparent it wasn't to big of a deal. Lots of questions and some of them hard to answer and some of them required to dig up some old long lost memories but all in all not bad. The social workers comment was that we where a pretty normal couple, which we took as a good thing.
The other news about the adoption is that we now are working with a facilitator in Ukraine and his helper in Texas. They will guide us through this process and take care of us when we are there. We believe we have a better idea of how this will all work but I bet we will learn more as we go. One thing we do know is that we won't go to Ukraine until spring since we have to be on a waiting list for 6 months after all our papers are done here in the states and sent over. This is because we want kids less than 6 years old. We are ok with that since that will give us more time to raise the money we need to bring with us.
we are going to do a couple of different fundraisers this summer. One worship concert in the park here in Durango with our worshipteam from church, a garage sale, a bakesale and maybe a chocolatesale. So please help us pray that they will all work out.
God has also been very good and given me more work. He is over and over showing us that he will provide for us.
Other than the adoption life is full of work and fun stuff. Scott is right now doing his annual training with the Navy in Texas. He got to work on an aircraft today so he was happy when I talked to him earlier. ( A lot of times they don't have to much to do)
My horses are doing fine. The one I have been leasing for the last 6 months is going back to her owner later this week due to hoof problems. Not fun but at least I didn't have to put her down.
It is late and I have to sleep so I promise I will update again soon!
Be blessed my friend!
Daniela
The other news about the adoption is that we now are working with a facilitator in Ukraine and his helper in Texas. They will guide us through this process and take care of us when we are there. We believe we have a better idea of how this will all work but I bet we will learn more as we go. One thing we do know is that we won't go to Ukraine until spring since we have to be on a waiting list for 6 months after all our papers are done here in the states and sent over. This is because we want kids less than 6 years old. We are ok with that since that will give us more time to raise the money we need to bring with us.
we are going to do a couple of different fundraisers this summer. One worship concert in the park here in Durango with our worshipteam from church, a garage sale, a bakesale and maybe a chocolatesale. So please help us pray that they will all work out.
God has also been very good and given me more work. He is over and over showing us that he will provide for us.
Other than the adoption life is full of work and fun stuff. Scott is right now doing his annual training with the Navy in Texas. He got to work on an aircraft today so he was happy when I talked to him earlier. ( A lot of times they don't have to much to do)
My horses are doing fine. The one I have been leasing for the last 6 months is going back to her owner later this week due to hoof problems. Not fun but at least I didn't have to put her down.
It is late and I have to sleep so I promise I will update again soon!
Be blessed my friend!
Daniela
2010-05-09
A new life in our barn!
I thought that since I don't have anything to update you guys on about the adoption I will instead give you a glimpse of my daily life.
I work for a couple that owns and breeds a kind of horse called welsh cob. The welsh cob is a pony breed from Wales:) As you can see in my picture they are pretty stout litte ones.
This guy is Starbucks and he is my primary showhorse. A fun ride:)My owners have 17 horses at the moment for me to work with and train. Alot YES but oh so much fun. There are 6 riding horses, 3 three year olds that I'm breaking to ride, 2 two year olds, 2 yearlings, 3 broodmares and one baby. The baby you see below was born less than a week ago and his name is MHS Durango Express. We'll probably call him Dex. We are also waiting for this years second foal to see the world. Maybe it will be there when I get there in the morning.
Maybe you have notised that there are a lot of stars in their names that is because they are almost all sons and daughters to our stallion Megastar
At last but not least is a picture of the horse I leese. She is also a welsh cob and her name is Atlanta.
This is a little glimps of my life another time I'll show you some more:)
2010-05-03
A prayer request!
Hi everyone!
It is pretty late for an old woman like me so this won't be a long post. But I wanted to fill you in on what is happening and ask for some help.
We are now in regular contact with the orphanage in Ukraine. They are looking for possible kids for us. Today we were told that it is hard to find young healty kids for international adoption. (We have asked for up till 4 years old) They asked if we would move our age limit a little. I don't really know what that means at this point but we felt that we need to pray. God knows about our wishes and he loves to see to the details of our wishes and eventhough age might not seem like as detail, it really is. We also felt that if it is our hearts that need to change to be open to older kids God has to help us in that. And we believe he can if that is his will.
Making more phonecalls about the homestudy tomorrow morning and hopefully we can send in the application at the end of this week.
An answer to prayer has been that I now have a few more hours of work over the summer. But I still need some more to help pay for all of this.
So please help us pray that they will find us young healthy kids or that God will change our hearts. And for more jobopportunities and finances.
Thank you all for standing by us on our journey of faith!
Daniela
It is pretty late for an old woman like me so this won't be a long post. But I wanted to fill you in on what is happening and ask for some help.
We are now in regular contact with the orphanage in Ukraine. They are looking for possible kids for us. Today we were told that it is hard to find young healty kids for international adoption. (We have asked for up till 4 years old) They asked if we would move our age limit a little. I don't really know what that means at this point but we felt that we need to pray. God knows about our wishes and he loves to see to the details of our wishes and eventhough age might not seem like as detail, it really is. We also felt that if it is our hearts that need to change to be open to older kids God has to help us in that. And we believe he can if that is his will.
Making more phonecalls about the homestudy tomorrow morning and hopefully we can send in the application at the end of this week.
An answer to prayer has been that I now have a few more hours of work over the summer. But I still need some more to help pay for all of this.
So please help us pray that they will find us young healthy kids or that God will change our hearts. And for more jobopportunities and finances.
Thank you all for standing by us on our journey of faith!
Daniela
2010-04-19
The door is slowly opening!
Hi everyone!
I know it has been a little while since I shared with you last of what is going on. Not much has happened until this last week. We have just been waiting which seems to be the biggest part of an adoption process. But we stay pretty busy in the meanwhile which is good.
But now to what is happening. I don't know how many of you have heard about the american mom that had adopted a kid from Russia. She thought the kid was a threath to her family so she put him (a 7 year old kid) on a plane with a note in his pocket that he was to return to Russia. Totally crazy in my opinion! This made Russia stop all adoptions to the US until the US agrees to new restrictions. This affected Ukraine too. So last week I got a message saying that the orphanage wants to help us but the door was closed for now....
We didn't know what to think. Was this another door that God was closing on us or just more time of waiting? We shared the situation with our smallgroup and we prayed about it.
Three days later I get another message saying that the person that runs the orphanage wants to give it a try already. The door that we thought was shut is now open and we will walk through it! Thank you LORD!
Now that we know what country for sure that we are working with we will do our homestudy.
It's amazing to be a Gods child and walk in his footsteps. You never know where you will end up and how your life is going to turn out. But one thing is for sure and that is that it is an adventure:-)
Be encouraged my friend and stay close to the source of peace that goes beyond all our understandings, our Heavenly Father!
D
I know it has been a little while since I shared with you last of what is going on. Not much has happened until this last week. We have just been waiting which seems to be the biggest part of an adoption process. But we stay pretty busy in the meanwhile which is good.
But now to what is happening. I don't know how many of you have heard about the american mom that had adopted a kid from Russia. She thought the kid was a threath to her family so she put him (a 7 year old kid) on a plane with a note in his pocket that he was to return to Russia. Totally crazy in my opinion! This made Russia stop all adoptions to the US until the US agrees to new restrictions. This affected Ukraine too. So last week I got a message saying that the orphanage wants to help us but the door was closed for now....
We didn't know what to think. Was this another door that God was closing on us or just more time of waiting? We shared the situation with our smallgroup and we prayed about it.
Three days later I get another message saying that the person that runs the orphanage wants to give it a try already. The door that we thought was shut is now open and we will walk through it! Thank you LORD!
Now that we know what country for sure that we are working with we will do our homestudy.
It's amazing to be a Gods child and walk in his footsteps. You never know where you will end up and how your life is going to turn out. But one thing is for sure and that is that it is an adventure:-)
Be encouraged my friend and stay close to the source of peace that goes beyond all our understandings, our Heavenly Father!
D
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