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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

Home study is a term we have learned since being apart of the adoption world.  We applied to have ours on Monday and they called back yesterday and we set it up for next week.  We know it's a lot of paper work and that we will have to do finger prints, and background checks, but that is all we know for now. We are looking into some fundraisers as well.  I will keep you posted about those as soon as we decide.

We have been in the adoption process for several months now, but as I was sending out our flyers to all of our close friends and family, I decided it was a good time to make it 'Facebook Official'.  We were very specific about telling our closest friends and family in person and then from there slowly spreading our news.  Yesterday I sat down and addressed 50+ envelopes with our flyers.  (Mom helped a little last week while we were at their house.) That made this whole process a little bit more realistic.  Today I am going to call and inquire about what we need to do to start our home study!  I would tell you what that means, but I don't really know yet.  I know it's something we have to do and that's about all I know for certain. I wanted to thank all of our friends and family that have taken time to encourage us through this process.  We know this is going to be a long hard process, so we are going to need all the love, support and encouragement that we can get!

Today we got our 'official' file number from our attorney!!  Now that means we are taking our flyers to be printed!  I will be mailing them next week!  I have a full list of people that will get getting our flyer!  Since we are counting on you to help us find our birth mom you need to have a flyer or two so you can pass on our information!  We can not thank you enough for your help!!  Keep your eyes out for this in your mailbox very soon!!