Our Adoption Journey...Getting closer to a finished NURSERY!!!

 Soooo.....I picked out colors that I think are gender neutral and that I love.  I'm pretty sure that if I knew  that the baby God had for us was a girl, I would have chosen something feminine, but what if the baby He has for us is a BOY?  Adoption keeps you on your toes and we ARE in the preliminary stages with a birth mom choosing us for her baby boy...but nothing's ever final until it's done.  So gender neutral it is!

I know I could wait.  Babies don't care if the room they will have is completely finished or not!  Ha!  But I tend to be a planner.  I tend to want to have things done.  And besides, Chuck and I have had so much fun planning this room out, that I can't imagine us NOT having this to keep us occupied in the waiting!  Love that I have a husband who will listen and help me choose all this stuff...and paint and rearrange and order and pick up, etc...

My little half bath was actually my inspiration.  I had recently decorated it in blue and orange and loved it so much that I decided those colors would be perfect...GIRL OR BOY!

So blue and orange it would be!  I bought a sewing pattern that I love after talking to my mother in law who is going to sew it for us!  She's actually going to bring one of her sewing machines to our house and "set up shop" and teach me how to sew(if that's possible!) throughout the process of making this set!  How fun(I think?!)!  She looked the pattern over after I decided which pieces I wanted for the room and told me how much fabric I would need.  I ordered fabric from this online discount fabric store: https://www.buyfabrics.com/ and had a great experience! 

As soon as it was delivered, because I was SO excited to get my letters project done, I took a swatch of the blue and orange fabric to Home Depot to have them color matched in the $2.48 paint size.  I also bought spray primer, and spray paint in the white and off white that I wanted for the letters that have been sitting necked(yes, I say necked, NOT naked...haha!) for far too long...

And WAHLAAA! Just gotta get them on the wall now!  And then, in a few weeks, we'll start tackling the nursery set.... 

While I think that there will always be pain/hurt/sorrow that I feel associated with God not allowing us to have a baby the "natural way"....the way that I feel "everyone" else gets to, all the while knowing that NOT everyone else gets to and knowing that there are others struggling thru this very same thing right now...

I'm finding definite JOY in our Adoption Journey knowing that God is in control and knows WAY more than my mind can possibly conceive about all that He's allowed thus far and what He has in store.

Praying that you can know JOY in the hard circumstances in your life as well.  I know it's not always easy.

Hang in there.