Our Adoption Journey: May 2011

Our Adoption Journey

Hello friends and family! Thank you so much for visiting our blog. Doug and I thought this would be a great way for loved ones to keep up with where we are in the domestic adoption process and follow us along on our incredible journey. This will be a great way for us to keep everyone up to speed so to speak and also express feelings, thoughts, concerns, etc. (Those of you who know me personally know that I'm not always the best at following through on stuff like this :) but I'm going to try REALLY hard to update things regularly!) We also want everyone to feel free to post comments on here. We are hoping that someday we can turn this blog into a "Life Book" for our child so that they may read and know the story that brought them to us.

We are so excited to see what God has in store for us on this journey. We cannot wait for the day that he blesses us with a child we can love, treasure, and raise up to be a child of God and spread his good news. We also can't wait for our child to meet each and every one of you and be a blessing in his or her life the way you've been in ours. Like I said, please feel free to post comments or ask questions. As most of you know, Doug and I are both open books :) We are more than happy to share anything with you if you have questions.

Adoption is such a wonderful thing and if it weren't for our "trials" we would not be able to enjoy this beautiful blessing that God is giving us. We have no doubt that God has a plan for us and that he has a child for us to love. (Psalm 139:13-16) Please continue to pray for us as we prepare ourselves to be parents. Please pray that we can continue to grow in our relationship with the Lord and in our relationship with each other. We love each and every one of you and look forward to sharing this blog with you. With Love,

Doug and Andrea

Sunday, May 22, 2011

2nd Meeting

We had our second meeting with the adoption counselor on Friday. It went well. We had to meet individually for about an hour a piece and talk about our childhood and our families. It's weird because I am an extremely open person but it was kind of difficult to tell your life story to a somewhat stranger. And it's hard to sum up your life in about 20 min. But, we made it through, and I think both of us did fine. We will meet again on June 1st at our home. This will most likely be our final visit of the home study process unless there are some things he feels he needs to follow up on.

Doug is currently reading "Dear Birthmother" and I am reading "Twenty Things Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew". I can't speak for Doug, but I love the book I'm reading. I hope it continues to give me insight into what our child may be feeling at some time or other. I never really realized that not only are Doug and I going through a "loss" with infertility, but our child will also experience a loss through the loss of his/her birthparents. I hope that I can try to understand this pain and loss that my child will experience but also show them that they will always be my child and that not only will we always love him/her, but that they have a heavenly Father that will never leave their side and will always treasure them.

I know many of you have been praying for us and we can't thank you enough. But we need your prayers so please continue to pray for us and pray for our child.

Monday, May 16, 2011

Successful First Home Visit!

We had our first home visit on Friday (May 13th) and everything went well! Our social worker just sat down with us and asked a few questions (mostly ones we had already answered) and then did a quick tour of the house. The only thing we lacked was a first aid kit which we got the next day! It really wasn't bad at all and Brinkley did behave himself :) We will meet with him again this Friday and then in two weeks after that. So we will be all done in June!! I have to admit that the time has gone by fast (I know to some of you, it may seem like it's taking forever) but I am grateful that Bethany has such a detailed process to select families for babies. It's evident that they really do care about children and want to make sure that adoptive families are prepared for a child.

God continues to bless our lives and continues to carry us through this journey to becoming parents. I don't praise him enough for all the great things he has done for us and continues to do. He is preparing our hearts for a beautiful child...his child, and I only hope that we can show our child God's amazing love.

Have a wonderful week! Hopefully it will be warming up again!

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