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It's been a minute. Actually it's been five years.  I'll just say life got crazy busy adding our girl.  So let's start with today. Today I am sitting and thinking about everything. Life. We are currently living in an apartment in Macon. A loft apartment, meaning it's real expensive. Not much more about it is fancy. We do have an elevator but that's about it. We are in the meh, middle stages of building our house. June 2018, we bought 21.55 acres in a spot in the road called Forsyth. It's just outside of McDonough (where we grew up) and Macon. We looked in lots of places, tired to decide where we wanted to raise our kids. We wanted excellent schools and wanted to in a good church. June 2019, we sold our house on April Drive in Conyers and moved to The Lofts at Bass while we built our home. We wanted to go ahead and get the big kids in school where they would be once the house was complete. They are there!  We are hoping to be in it by Halloween. Our bu

2013 I don't even remember where I left off.  August I started back to work.  I am working at the school where the kids go.  I feel like I blinked and three months went by.  Adding another one to our everyday - makes us feel so much busier.  So with that being said that is why, again, I am behind on our updates! 10/26 I met with our caseworker this week, finally. Saturday she came to our house to do our final step of our Home Study.  She just had to legally say our home was safe for us to adopt.   This week our attorney should be getting the parental surrender of rights from her mom.  That will give us the go ahead on getting everything legal so we can be her legal parents.  Halloween and Caden's birthday are both coming up so we are gearing up for both of those.  I made the kids costumes this year.  They are going to be Peter Pan and Tinkerbell.  They are going to be so adorable!  Caden wants so bad to have a 'camo' birthday party, so we are just goin

Written 2013. I found this in my 'drafts'.  This might be a long one.  Try to follow me. I have a lot to say and a lot on my mind and I hope to communicate it so it makes sense. I was a stay-at-home Mom from the time my son was born. I begged and pleated with my husband. It was very important to me. I wanted to raise our son. I didn't want someone else to, I didn't want to pay someone else to. God entrusted him to me and I am going to do everything in my power to raise him the best way I know how. This may sound crazy to some but that's my honest thought. I know it's not for everyone to stay home. Whether it be finances or desire.  I know this is not a one size fits all.  I have thought about this a lot through the years. I remember washing and folding my son's boxers for the first time. I thought to myself, I am raising a man. I am raising a Dad. I am raising a husband. I pray daily that he will be the best of all of these. I do not take raising him

It has been awhile since I blogged. I have had so much to tell everyone but didn't want to put anything in jeopardy. Just airing on the safe side. Soo...We were contacted in June 10th by a friend of mine.  She was one of my Thirty-One hostess and we were friends on FB, so she knew we were looking to adopt. She asked if we would be interested in a older child instead of a newborn like we had been pursuing.  All along, we had told each other that if God placed a child in our path, we'd pray and consider them, just as long as they were younger than Caden.  We have heard and I have read that it can be hard on your biological children.  We didn't want to cause any problems that way.  I told her that and she said she knew of someone that had a 4 year old. I was super anxious to find out allll the details.  I called Michael and told him.  We waited about 5 days, then we were put in contact with her caregiver.  That next Thursday we went to the little girls house to meet her. Bec

We had our first step of our home study at the end of May.  Home study, like I have said before is 'home study' is an adoption term. I am learning them as I go. Some I still don't get. Home study, I only know step 1. I will learn as we go. Part 2 is our individual meeting.  We went and met with our, I guess she's called a case worker, on Thursday afternoon before we headed to the beach for Memorial Day weekend.  We met at a local restaurant, on the patio. It was so relaxed. I was a little nervous. Telling someone you had never met your dreams and about your 'history'. She stated that by the end she will know way more about us than we want her to know. We just talked a little bit about what we had in mind, and she went through a page and a half of 'to-do's'.  We have to get lots of documents, certificates, questionnaires, letters, physicals, fingerprints, verification's, photos of us and our home, etc.  We have no deadlines so that makes things

Some of you may know, but I have not shared with everyone yet, just because it's a lot to process and I needed some time to take it all in. Last week we made our adoption announcement super public.  We are 'FB official'.  We also mailed out almost 100 of our adoption flyers.  I was amazed and humbled by the responses we got from our friends and family!  I had several people come up to me at church and ask if they could pass on our flyer to someone they knew, or someone that worked where they could share our story. Overwhelmed. That next week, I got two phone calls from two friends or friends of friends.  Make sense?  That's how this whole process is going to work.  So now we have been told about six.  Yes 6 possible birth mom's that are looking to give their baby's up for adoption.  Not all of those were in one week, but three were.  So when I say it was a lot to process, I mean it was hard.  Excited!?  Scared.  Tears. Worried.  Nausea.  Thankful!  Ready to ge