Trying Simple Life in Taiwan

well, it's thursday here,a holiday. Our fosterdaughter is home for the day, but going home for a weekend visit. The agency says that since she will be done with foster care June 30th, they will now be having her go home once a month, readjusting........crazy in my book, but hey, what do fosterparents know right? Funny thing, she may stay on her own AFTER foster care as their are no highschools in the village. She is graduating from Jr. High this June. So, anyway, my boys still have to do school today.

God is really doing somethings. Tomorrow, Friday, I have a meeting with the head of Garden of Hope here in Taitung. I am meeting with the unwed mother's dept. head about adoptions. I am so excited about all this. This is such an opportunity for our ministry. God placed adoption stuff in our laps a little over a year ago I guess and wow, things have just taken off. We have had the privildege of placing 6 children in Chrisitan homes, two of those we made contacts via the internet!!

Saturday, I go via 2.5hour train (ugggghhh! my train leaves at 7am as there are only two trains going down south that day) to a city down south of us. There is a new home for unwed mothers opening up. The 1st is the open house and then they are ready for people to come. It is being run by a few missionary woman and national helpers. They want to work with us for adoption.

See how God is working? Luke, my beloved dh is working hard on the paper work to get us officially registered with the gov't so there are no problems at all. Not that there would be as most of the adoptions done here in Taiwan are done privately. So, now you know why that little box for chip in's is at the top of our blog. We are praying to get money raised for a building so we can take more kids in, not just for adoptions but for other kids in need of a home. So, please do pass that or our ministry site.... www.mlchome.org  around, even if people just put $1 in that is $1more than we would have before (yes, i am the optimist!!)

So, in addition to all that, I have failed the past few days for breakfast, cooking it that is. We have eaten at home for lunch and dinner, even though my oven is now broken......it won't heat up which I found out while trying to cook a casserole..............anyway, we are taking this little by little.

Oh, dh is going to get me a sewing machine for my B-DAY  now, can I get infant/kids or even adults patterns via the internet? I could probably ask my mom but they are like.............sick and my dad is to have knee replacement surgery blah blah...........well.........you get it.

anyway, that is it on us..............