Life, Family, Everything..
I ordered another book, one recommended my our adoption agency. It’s Toddler Adoption: The Weaver’s Craft by Mary Hopkins-Best. This one is a little more up-beat and half as thick as the first one. So I’m sure I’ll get through it faster. So far it’s very good, like the other. It has the same theme of how important it is to establish a connection...
I really do read books often. Daily. Just because they’re 10 pages long and 5 of those are pictures, doesn’t mean it’s not a book 😉 But since there’s not much more we can do for the adoption right now, I decided to get a book with actual pages/chapters in it to read. It’s called Parenting the Internationally Adopted Child. This book discusses the...
So for awhile now we’ve been waiting on our home study to be complete. Yesterday, we got the completed report back and we passed 🙂 Yay!! So we mailed off our I-600a, which is a petition to adopt an orphan. That goes to USCIS and takes from 5 weeks-3 months to be approved. We also mailed our dossier to our adoption agency, where it...
Sunday was the last of our home study visits. Now we just wait for the report papers so we can send them off to where they need to go. The other thing was the yard sale…we got rained out the first weekend, but now I’m glad we did. We ended up with a couple friends (they get together every year and have a big...
For those that don’t know, Paul works around explosives. Not hands on; he’s IT. He takes care of computers in explosive buildings at times. I don’t often think it’s dangerous since most of the time he’s “on the hill” and away from the “plant buildings.” ATK puts together rocket fuel and various ammunition (if I remember it right). Yesterday I was getting dinner ready...
Take a couple minutes to watch Nielson‘s story…she puts life into perspective.
We’re at a lull in the adoption process for the moment. We’re waiting on our 2nd (and final) home study visit which will be in a couple weeks. But life still goes on! My husband’s grandma died last week, so he’s going to Wisconsin for the funeral this week. Next week Gab heads out to Utah for her cousin’s wedding. And amidst those things,...
Just a quick “thank you” for all the support we’ve been getting from friends & family, online & in person. Paul and I feel very blessed that so many of you are willing to help with the yard sale, donating stuff, and words of encouragement!! This is a very exciting, yet stressful, process and knowing we have so many people behind us makes this...
Paul and I went to our home study office today and met with the social worker. He’s been in adoptions for 23 years (phD in social work I think it was) doing interviews, counseling, and placements. And he also has 2 adopted sons! He said his job today was to “scare you so you run out the door.” He wanted to make sure we’re...
So as time goes by and the adoption progresses, I’ve been getting more and more excited. It feels like a pregnancy, minus the physical uncomforts (yay!!). And since we’re going to try and get a girl, my mind turns pink…pink ruffles, dresses, shoes, dolls, books….etc. Oh, dolls….*sigh* I decided to get this girl a doll. A little black dolly she can carry around and...