Our yard sale was a success, with everyone's contributions and the kids' lemonade stand we made $481!!! And it was a lot of fun. We have established I would definitely prefer to give things away than make a sale, as Michael happily sent me away to take Allie to her last soccor game for the season. And I was really trying to be good, knowing what we are doing here! We had some things left. So now we will send things over to a friend that is doing a yard sale fundraiser next weekend to help get her son home that is also waiting for her in China! So exciting! Our home study is officially done and approved. Michael picked it up Friday on his way home from work! We have an awesome social worker! So our paper chase schedule for the week includes: completing and sending off our paperwork for CIS with the $890. that we now have! Getting our last item we need from the police station to complete our dossier! (also very exciting), getting everything notarized and certified through the county, and hopefully we will also send everything to the state for the same. We are also to the point that we can now apply for grants, which I will  be doing this week to make the end of June deadlines! Yeah!  Please pray for us for the grant process. We have donated in the past to some of these agencies and I am hoping and praying so much that they will help us a little. Then we will have a better understanding of the amount we will need for a loan. It is so awesome that we have not had to stop for a moment due to lack of funds. When the next payment has been due we have had it. Sometimes with in days, but we've had it.  I realize we are just beginning, but it's been a miracle the way everything has been going. God is definitely leading the destiny of our little guy. Thank you so much to everyone for all your help and support.