APPROVED

We are officially approved to Adopt! I went to the agency and picked up the paperwork and we are on the list. Now we wait for a birth mother to pick us. Ofcourse we are very excited but to be honest we are also a little bit nervous. We could get a call at any time that we have been chosen. We wait and hope that someone looks at our portfolio and reads our letter and decides that we are the parents they have been looking for.

Thank you to everyone for your support and requests for bottles, we appreciate it so much. We are heading to Maine next week to see family and I will post when we get back. Please keep thinking positive thoughts, every ounce of positive energy we can get is appreciated.

Frustrated

So......the week has come and gone and no approval. I emailed our social worker on Thursday morning to see how everything was going and I haven't heard back from her yet. We are not officially on the list until we are approved. We are paying her a lot of money and she has our entire future in her hands you would think that she would email me back. An adoption book that we read said to be open with your social worker about what we need from her. We were at the very beginning, I told her I am a bit of a control freak and wanted to be kept in the loop. I understand she has other cases so if for some reason she didn't get the paper work complete this week that is okay, I just want an email back so I know what is going on. This entire process is very difficult. We are getting ready to celebrate our two year anniversary on Tuesday and I never really thought this is what we would be dealing with on that day. The excitement is there but I am a little uneasy right now. We are feeling more stress at this point then excitement, it really is a rollercoaster.

A lot of people have requested baby bottles be sent to them. We greatly appreciate this support. It helps with one part of the stress. I will keep you posted about when we are approved. Hopefully we hear something soon. Thank you again for the support and reading about our journey.

Yesterday

Yesterday I went and saw our social worker and handed in our portfolio and birth mother letter. She said that the paperwork for the home study should be complete next week and then we will be approved and on the list. We are really excited and to be honest a little nervous. We still have a lot of stuff we have to get in order before we get the call that we are matched. Once the call comes we could have as many as four months to prepare and as little as a week or less really. Crazy to think about that but very exciting. We are kicking off a fundraiser, "The Baby Bottle Fundraiser". This is an opportunity for people who want to help out in an easy way. We are going to send baby bottles to people that we know and they will save their change in it. When the bottle is filled they can return it to us and it will go towards the adoption. Each person that returns a bottle will have a page in a book that we will make so the baby always knows how many people contributed to bringing them home. If you would like to contribute and have a bottle sent to you please email me or send me a facebook message. We appreciate any support that we can get, a little bit of change from you can go a long way for us and our future family.

Hopefully next week I will be posting that we are approved. I can't wait for that day, we will truly be one step closer. Thank you again for all the positive thoughts and prayers.

Almost to the waiting part

We are now just waiting for the home study to be approved. I am starting to get excited and a little nervous. I lay in bed at night wondering about what the phone call is going to be like when our social worker calls to tell us that a birthmother has chosen us. What is that birthmother going to be like, what will our first meeting be like. There so many exciting and nerve racking things that are coming in our near future.

In a couple of weeks we are going up north to see family and friends. I am ready for a little time away from here to enjoy time with everyone. This will be a great opportunity for us to all be together and discuss the adoption and any questions that people might have. Questions are normal and understandable, neither of our families have ever gone through this before. Jeremy and I are very open about the prcoess and hope that through our experience we can help more people understand what it is like in our society when you want a child so bad and can't have one the old fashion way. The support of everyone following the blog and sending warm thoughts and prayers our way is priceless. Thank you and please keep reading for more updates. Soon the updates will be less and it will probably transition into how we are feeling during the wait and our preparation for the baby.