Approved and Waiting

Well it's now official. As of January 3, 2007, Ross and I are officially waiting to adopt. We now wait for a birth mother to select us to adopt her baby. It could go fast and it could take a while. After speaking with our social worker, it is amazing how each birthmom has different likes and dislikes. Our social worker said a birthmom could like us because we share the same interest in a sport, because we have a dog, because we both work, because we live on a farm, because we're Baptist, the list could go on and on. I just hope and pray God leads our birthmom to us soon!! The homestudy process wasn't as hard as we anticipated. In fact it only took about 6 weeks to complete. There was a lot of paperwork to fill out but I am so happy that we don't have to redo that again. If we do have to renew our homestudy there are only a couple documents that have to be updated thankfully. We pray we don't have to update the homestudy though. It's all in God's hands now. Thanks for continuing to support us.

New Year!

Well here we are in 2007. Boy did the holidays seem to go by so fast. All is well here. We are oficially done with our Adoption homestudy and are on the Bethany Website for waiting families. We're hoping to bring a miracle home this year!!! I've joined a couple online adoption boards so I am really hoping that will help with the wait. It's amazing how fast some placements go while others take a while. It all depends on the birthparent(s) likes and dislikes. We originally thought about going with International adoption but with that, there are a lot of hoops to jump through when dealing with other countries. Plus the travel time and not knowing if we can be away from the farm for an extended period of time. So we believe domestic (US) is the way to go. Thanks for everybody's support .