Well, we had our home study interviews this week...and our home study visit will be in two weeks! Yay! I do have a lot of cleaning to do, even though everyone keeps telling me that I don't need to. LOL I just want to make sure that there isn't anything for them to see as unacceptable (you know, like dirty baseboards and dusty ceiling fan blades!! haha).
So anyways, we are going to try and finish painting the downstairs and also get a few of the cleaning supplies in a safer place (this was the suggestion from our case worker, I guess they don't like seeing cleaning supplies in low cabinets unless they have the child locks on them).
Oh! And we have also cleaned out the baby's room too. Its all ready to go...now we just need a baby! I can't help but look at the baby stuff every time I'm at the store, but I haven't been able to bring myself to buy anything yet. Maybe soon.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
{Different Trips to the Same Place}
Deciding to have a baby is like planning a trip to Australia; You've heard it's a wonderful place, you've read many guidebooks and feel certain you're ready to go. Everyone you know has traveled there by plane. They say it can be a turbulent flight with occasional rough landings, but you can look forward to being pampered on the trip.
So you go to the airport and ask the ticket agent for a ticket to Australia. All around you excited people are boarding planes for Australia. It seems there is no seat for you; you'll have to wait for the next flight.
Impatient, but anticipating a wonderful trip, you wait and wait and wait.
Flights to Australia continue to come and go. People say silly things like, "Relax. You'll get on a flight soon." Other people actually get on a plane and then cancel their trip, to which you cry, "It's not fair!"
After a long time the ticket agent tells you, "I'm sorry, we're not going to be able to get you on a plane to Australia. Perhaps you should think about going by boat."
"By BOAT!" you say, "Going by boat will take a very long time and it costs a great deal of money. I really had my heart set on going by plane."
So you go home and think about not going to Australia at all. You wonder if Australia will be as beautiful if you approach it by sea rather than air. Finally you decide to travel by boat.
It's a long trip, many months over many rough seas. No one pampers you. You wonder if you will ever see Australia. Meanwhile, your friends have flown back and forth to Australia two or three more times, marveling about each trip.
Then one glorious day, the boat docks in Australia. It is more exquisite than you ever imagined, and the beauty is magnified by your long days at sea. You have made many wonderful friends during your voyage, and you find yourself comparing stories with others who also traveled by sea rather than air.
People will continue to fly to Australia as often as they life, but you are about to travel only once, perhaps twice. Some say things like, "Oh, be glad you didn't fly. My flight was horrible; traveling by sea is so easy." But you will always wonder what it would have been like to fly to Australia.
Still, you know God blessed you with a special appreciation of Australia, and the beauty of Australia is not in the way you get there, but in the place itself.
--Printed in "Dear Abby" in 1995--
So you go to the airport and ask the ticket agent for a ticket to Australia. All around you excited people are boarding planes for Australia. It seems there is no seat for you; you'll have to wait for the next flight.
Impatient, but anticipating a wonderful trip, you wait and wait and wait.
Flights to Australia continue to come and go. People say silly things like, "Relax. You'll get on a flight soon." Other people actually get on a plane and then cancel their trip, to which you cry, "It's not fair!"
After a long time the ticket agent tells you, "I'm sorry, we're not going to be able to get you on a plane to Australia. Perhaps you should think about going by boat."
"By BOAT!" you say, "Going by boat will take a very long time and it costs a great deal of money. I really had my heart set on going by plane."
So you go home and think about not going to Australia at all. You wonder if Australia will be as beautiful if you approach it by sea rather than air. Finally you decide to travel by boat.
It's a long trip, many months over many rough seas. No one pampers you. You wonder if you will ever see Australia. Meanwhile, your friends have flown back and forth to Australia two or three more times, marveling about each trip.
Then one glorious day, the boat docks in Australia. It is more exquisite than you ever imagined, and the beauty is magnified by your long days at sea. You have made many wonderful friends during your voyage, and you find yourself comparing stories with others who also traveled by sea rather than air.
People will continue to fly to Australia as often as they life, but you are about to travel only once, perhaps twice. Some say things like, "Oh, be glad you didn't fly. My flight was horrible; traveling by sea is so easy." But you will always wonder what it would have been like to fly to Australia.
Still, you know God blessed you with a special appreciation of Australia, and the beauty of Australia is not in the way you get there, but in the place itself.
--Printed in "Dear Abby" in 1995--
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Success! Kinda....LOL
WOW! Can I just say how amazed I am at all of the people who have been in contact with me this week through Facebook and our blog! I sent out three emails on Sunday night, and I have people contacting me like "Hey a friend of a friend showed me your blog!" giving us suggestions on networking and generally just giving us support as a lot of them are adopting too!
However, we are VERY excited about something that came up on Tuesday. Through our emails, we were contact by an acquaintance who knows someone considering adoption. We have not spoken with her, but we hope to. The only information/interaction has been through the acquaintance acting as the middle man. We are excited about the opportunity in front of us, and we feel very good about the birth mother so far. We can only hope that she is feeling the same way. There are no real details at the moment, but we will be sure to continue updating our blog.
After finding this out yesterday I was very anxious, I'm lucky I got any sleep! All day I had baby on the brains, just as bad as when we were trying to get pregnant! Who knew it would feel like this?! The most difficult part so far? Knowing that we are at the complete mercy of someone else's choice. We count our blessings everyday, and we are so lucky to even be able to adopt....but....we can't help but think about how most "normal" people take their pregnancy for granted. Those people are so lucky to be able to have children...there is no way for them to comprehend how it feels to have to prove yourself worthy to be able to have children. The past two years have been so emotionally draining, wanting nothing more than to be blessed with a child. We can only hope that we don't encounter more heartbreak now (although we knowingly accept that risk, as adoption is far from being a "for sure" path).
We are keeping this very special birth mother in our prayers morning, noon, and night--praying that Heavenly Father will bless her with discernment to be able to make this life changing decision. Keep us in your prayers too, you know we need it!
However, we are VERY excited about something that came up on Tuesday. Through our emails, we were contact by an acquaintance who knows someone considering adoption. We have not spoken with her, but we hope to. The only information/interaction has been through the acquaintance acting as the middle man. We are excited about the opportunity in front of us, and we feel very good about the birth mother so far. We can only hope that she is feeling the same way. There are no real details at the moment, but we will be sure to continue updating our blog.
After finding this out yesterday I was very anxious, I'm lucky I got any sleep! All day I had baby on the brains, just as bad as when we were trying to get pregnant! Who knew it would feel like this?! The most difficult part so far? Knowing that we are at the complete mercy of someone else's choice. We count our blessings everyday, and we are so lucky to even be able to adopt....but....we can't help but think about how most "normal" people take their pregnancy for granted. Those people are so lucky to be able to have children...there is no way for them to comprehend how it feels to have to prove yourself worthy to be able to have children. The past two years have been so emotionally draining, wanting nothing more than to be blessed with a child. We can only hope that we don't encounter more heartbreak now (although we knowingly accept that risk, as adoption is far from being a "for sure" path).
We are keeping this very special birth mother in our prayers morning, noon, and night--praying that Heavenly Father will bless her with discernment to be able to make this life changing decision. Keep us in your prayers too, you know we need it!
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Getting Excited!
Hellooo!! People have been asking for an update on the adoption process...tomorrow we are going to LDS Family Services to turn in copies of our FBI fingerprints, our marriage license, our sealing certificate, and our home study template. We have spent the past two or three weeks typing up our answers to literally hundreds of questions that are required for the home study, and we are SO happy to have them all done!! Now we will have our home study done, which will involve a home visit and three interviews- one as a couple and each as an individual. They are required to have the home study complete by October, so it should all happen pretty quick! We will keep you updated!
Oh, also...we are starting to get some emails distributed out to family, friends, and coworkers to help us network and get the word out there. Let me know if you want me to send an email to you, if you are willing to forward it onto your family, friends, wards, etc.
Oh, also...we are starting to get some emails distributed out to family, friends, and coworkers to help us network and get the word out there. Let me know if you want me to send an email to you, if you are willing to forward it onto your family, friends, wards, etc.
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