One Month Down...

Well we've been waiting for a little over a month now. In a way it's gone pretty fast, but yet in another way it's gone slow. The WAITING part is the hardest part of all. We basically have no idea when we will get picked. It could be 2 months from now, it could be 2 years from now. So in a nutshell I don't have much to report. I did receive an email from the Bethany Social worker who informed us that our profile has been looked at already, but unfortunately no takers.

We're starting to buy baby things here and there. Next weekend we're going to stop at Babies R Us and see if we can find a crib. We would like to get the Nursery set up in case we would be matched soon and wouldn't have time to complete it. I've also started registering online at Walmart. I decided not to post the link to our baby registry as it gives out identifying information, but for those of you who want to take a look, just search for our last name. I think I put in a fake due date of 1/3/08. Apparently websites that offer baby registries don't take into consideration that adoptive parents need registries too so therefore I ALWAYS have to put in a due date.

Well that's our update for now. Please continue to keep us in your prayers.

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.