Lots of updates!!

The last few months were a little crazy for the Giugliano household.  August-December is football and golf season! But we survived! Praise the Lord and we all had such fun! I did learn a few things that hopefully will make it run a little smoother next season!

So lets go back...Way back...to August 26, 2016! Today was such a gift from the Lord because we were given the opportunity by hisradio to thank Steven Curtis Chapman for blessing us with a Show Hope grant that will forever change our family! ❤️Only wish we could have thanked Mary Beth in person too! We want to encourage all families who feel the calling to adopt don't let finances be the no. Trust God, He will provide through organizations like Show Hope. #found #adoptionrocks

Then let's bounce to September 20th, 2016! We received notice we were awarded the Gift of Adoption Grant!!!! We are fully funded!! We are so grateful to God! When we started the adoption process we knew we didn't have the funds but God provided as we worked our hardest and prayed even harder!

We continued to prepare our son's room as we waited for our court date! It is pretty much complete just need to secure the bookshelves! Love this piece that our friend Ashley Boot gave to us! Can't wait to have our son home in our arms! Thanks to his wonderful daddy for hanging it up. And the gorgeous quilt was made by my mother in law! ❤️This room is filled with love and prayers! Check out the song that this quote came from https://youtu.be/9W4StV5CCHA 

On November 15, 2016, World Adoption Day, we found out our court date was set for November 25, 2016!!! It was approved and then we waited till December 30th for a judge to sign our paperwork and that day started our 60 day wait period! We are on day 51 and counting down the days! It is looking like we might be traveling mid March! It feels like a dream to be this close to finally becoming a forever family!  We have prepared and prepared, prayed and prayed more, read books on adoption, watched educational videos about attachment....and yet I still pray the Lord uses every last day, hour, minute and second and each day that follows him being home to mold us into the parents He wants us to be to help our son grow into the man He has called him to be.  

Thank you for all that have helped us along this journey!  God has blessed us immeasurably more through each of you!