Home.

So, it's been a little over a week now that Shawn has been home.  Read that again....SHAWN IS HOME!!  He is home friends!  God is faithful and oh so good!  Emotional.  It has been an emotional time.  I haven't gotten to actually SEE him yet, because I live in MO and well....it's a little more difficult than it seems.  However, we are changing that in about 2 weeks.  I will tell you that day, the days leading up to his release, were taxing.  It didn't seem real.  Something we, I have been praying for, believing for was finally happening.  It was FINALLY happening.  God was answering.  

I won't ever forget the moment I got the phone call that he was with my parents.  I was at school (I'm a teacher).  I said, "hello?" and with tears streaming down his face, I heard that voice, "Andrea, I'm home."  I didn't think I would cry, but boy did I.  Right there, in my classroom, in front of all my kids, crying like a baby!  SO many emotions...He did it!  God brought him home! A 10 year prayer had been answered...my faith was so high in that moment!  If He could bring Shawn home, and answer that prayer, why wouldn't He answer my baby prayer?  Why won't He give me a baby?  He WILL!!  I know it with every fiber of my being...He will!  

Friends, don't give up!  Don't stop believing, don't stop praying, don't stop trusting in the One who has it all!  He is faithful!  We may not always understand what or why He is doing things the way He is, but we trust Him all the same!  If anything, I have learned that He writes our stories much better than we ever could!  It's much more beautiful if we just let Him do it!

Still Dreaming, 

Andrea

 I'm Back!!

Wow!  It's been a little over 3 years since I have posted a blog.  It's now 2022.  In the last 3 years, we had our third miscarriage and we moved from Texas to Missouri (I know, don't ask:)).  We have been in Missouri for almost 2 years--it will be 2 in July.  It's different here, but the same.  We have our moments, I have my moments.  I miss Texas.  I miss what Texas represents for me--friends, family, security, safety, home.  It's a little harder to be here now that we know WHEN my brother is coming home (see way earlier posts for those stories).  I want to be there, to spend time with him, catch up on the last 10 years, share everything that's happened---from wedding videos to movies, to music and  tv shows, to fashion, etc!  There has been so much he has 'missed' and I can't wait to share life with him again...so being here in MO and away from there right now is difficult.  I know that God has a plan, and I know that He knew when He moved us all the way up here when He did, He knew what He was doing.  He hasn't failed me yet, so why would I doubt him now?  I just can't beleive it?!  On August 3, 2011, I felt a punch in the stomach like never before.  I couldn't breath, I couldn't speak, utter shock.  We didn't know what God was doing, why He was doing it...Here we are DAYS from the end of this chapter, and HE has been SO faithful!  So faithful.  We have made it!  We are stronger, we are closer.  We view things/people differently now.  We don't take for granted the things we use to.  I can't wait to share the rest of this story with you some day!  

Still dreaming, 

Andrea