Great Interview

Well we meet our adoption coordinator today and she was so fun! I felt like I have know her for a long time! I am sure Ty and I were a lot to take in, but hopefully she liked us. We kept joking and saying "scratch that from the record" after we would say something funny/inapproriate:). Tyler told me I was little too excited and he is not sure who was sitting at the table with him, but if Jessica could show up next time that would be great. I am just really excited to be in this process that I could not stop talking, which for those of you who know me, does that really surprise anyone?

Things went really well, the only part that was a little discouraging was how it is taking to get background checks done in Springfield. She said right now it is taking about 90 day which is up from 2-4 weeks that is used to take. So if everything goes well we are looking at the very earliest of May with having our homestudy done.

Even though it was not as soon as I wanted I know God has our timeline. Actually just last night in our Adopted Baby prayer journal I prayed that I would follow God's timing and not try to run ahead of him. I have been trying to get everything done so fast and in my timing and today God slowed me down! And according to my husband I needed to slow down...I think I embarrased him!

On a random side note, we added two new couples to our small group tonight and it went really well. I am excited to see what God is going to with us!

Tomorrow's our first interview

Well, tomorrow we officially meet with the Baby Fold for our first interview. I am not sure what we are doing or how many visits we will have so I will have to wait and see! I think I have all of our paperwork done for our Homestudy, now hopefully we pass our background checks:).

A little obsessive...

I am loving blogging so much, I could spend all day adding things, changing things, and looking at other people's blogs!

Today Griffin asked me what color our new baby was going to be, so I showed him some pictures; I didn't know what he was going to say, but he said nothing. I love the fact that getting a brown baby does not even phase him. All he wants to know is when our little boy from "opiapia" is coming home.

I hope everyone has a Happy New Year!

First piece mailed!!!

I am so excited to have the first little portion of our Dossier paperwork mailed today! When we received all of your paperwork it was VERY overwhelming, but thanks to advice from Shelley it does not seem so bad anymore. We almost have all of our homestudy paperwork completed and have our first interview next week. We are heading to Peoria on Thursday to get fingerprinted and that is last piece of our portion of the homestudy.

Everyday I thank the Lord for this journey we are starting. I was praying for our little boy and figured out he is probably in someone's tummy in Ethiopia, so I am expecting, but I am not going to swell!! ( we all remember what I look like pregnant:). As I thought about that I started wondering what the mother was like, is she scared, does she have more kids, is she taking care of my baby, and what will lead her to the orphanage. Tears come to my eyes as I remember I have no control over anything she does while she is carrying our little boy. But, what I do know is God knows and He already has plans for our little boy, plans beyond what we can conceive. And I will keep remembering that until we bring him home!

I am so excited about this and I cannot wait to see what God is going to teach us through this whole process.

New Blog

Everyone keeps telling me "You should get a blog for your adoption", so I guess I am going to give it try!