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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 g...

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. W...

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 th...

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!!

It's just that. We knew getting into this it would have ups and downs. Lots of waiting, and wondering. I was talking to a friend of ours that is adopting as well, and she said, 'Welcome to the roller coaster that is adoption'. She's right. I thought about a song I knew from when I was younger. (I still have the cassette...) It's called Roller Coaster Ride, but 4HIM. Life is a roller coaster. Music speaks so much to me!! As you go through highs and lows And all that's in between The Lord alone is in control Of this big scream machine We told our closest family and friends early on.  We wanted prayers, and support!  We got that right away from everyone!  My sister's, friend's Mom (complicated, I know.) knew of a baby that was born and the mother had already lots her birth rights. We thought we had a lead. A potential baby could be ours.   Yes, one week after we had made our first official step towards adoption.  I pretty much checked my phone...