Sunday, January 27, 2013
Just keep blogging, just keep blogging!
I really am trying to get the hang of this blogging thing. In general, I am pretty tech savvy, but I seem to be blog illiterate, which is frustrating (read: anyone who knows what they are doing can feel free to help me!). Anyhow, I did manage to create 3 new fundraising pages - it seems like that's all we are doing right now, focusing on how to raise $$$. So, you will notice 3 new pages on top - Jewelry, Sushi and Art. Also, for those of you who are so inclined, you can also give a tax-deductible donation to us by giving directly to Ethiopia Hope and tagging us (Alan & Chairsty Stewart) in the memo.
Friday, January 18, 2013
The Waiting Game
Classes started on Wednesday and so inevitably, I'm helping students with logins, passwords and course registrations. This morning I had to contact a vendor (via chat) to help one of my students get logged into her course. Ugh...chatting...and waiting...
So, I head to the wonderful internet and put in all my info and start waiting in the queue - you know, the virtual waiting line. It says that I am number 3 in the queue and that the average wait is 8:22 - not great, but not bad for this time of year. So I wait, and wait, and wait...I have waiting much more than the anticipated 8:22, but somehow the average wait time has gone DOWN to 7:02. I don't know how this happens when I have been waiting, and waiting, and waiting. FINALLY, I get to chat with John and tell him all of my troubles...about 9 minutes into our chat we are spontaneously disconnected and I am re-queued!! Now, instead of actually chatting, I am FIFTH in line...fifth? I've been waiting here for a while again, my average wait time is 14:52, but of course I have waited longer. I am now third in line and I "should be connected to an agent in about 33 seconds." Hmmmm...
It makes me wonder - are there a couple kids who are waiting? A couple of boys who felt like they were in the queue...some boys who thought that their average wait time has passed? My waiting is so very inconsequential compared to our future children. I wish I could speed up the process, but I do not know how to do that.
People have been asking where we are in our process and all I can say is that we are fundraising. I feel like I should have a better answer, but at this point, that's what we do, wait and raise money. I pray for God's timing in this whole process, I pray that our children do not feel like they have been re-queued.
BTW - I have been waiting in my queue as I type this...my average wait is now 10:58. :)
So, I head to the wonderful internet and put in all my info and start waiting in the queue - you know, the virtual waiting line. It says that I am number 3 in the queue and that the average wait is 8:22 - not great, but not bad for this time of year. So I wait, and wait, and wait...I have waiting much more than the anticipated 8:22, but somehow the average wait time has gone DOWN to 7:02. I don't know how this happens when I have been waiting, and waiting, and waiting. FINALLY, I get to chat with John and tell him all of my troubles...about 9 minutes into our chat we are spontaneously disconnected and I am re-queued!! Now, instead of actually chatting, I am FIFTH in line...fifth? I've been waiting here for a while again, my average wait time is 14:52, but of course I have waited longer. I am now third in line and I "should be connected to an agent in about 33 seconds." Hmmmm...
It makes me wonder - are there a couple kids who are waiting? A couple of boys who felt like they were in the queue...some boys who thought that their average wait time has passed? My waiting is so very inconsequential compared to our future children. I wish I could speed up the process, but I do not know how to do that.
People have been asking where we are in our process and all I can say is that we are fundraising. I feel like I should have a better answer, but at this point, that's what we do, wait and raise money. I pray for God's timing in this whole process, I pray that our children do not feel like they have been re-queued.
BTW - I have been waiting in my queue as I type this...my average wait is now 10:58. :)
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Pure religion...
"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." James 1:27
This is just one verse that compels us to adopt. Adoption is obviously not for everyone, but it's for us...on Christmas I was wondering if it would be our last Christmas as just a couple; wondering if in 2013 we'd have a couple little ones to buy gifts for and bless. The truth is, our kids are already out there, alive...waiting for us to adopt them. I pray that God helps us through this journey - from paperwork and fundraising to choosing and praying for a couple boys we don't even know yet.
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