We are Pre-Approved!

Yah! Our Pre-Approval letter finally came! We received the packet of papers on 1/26 and immediately started processing them. Statements of Faith, financials, taxes, backround information, etc. I emailed the whole packet complete back today! We should hopefully find out soon if we can move on to the next level which is the formal application. Also, this Thursday we attend the mandatory adoption meeting. Excited to check things off the list and get closer to bringing home our baby!

I'm Waiting on you Lord....

I have a feeling this song will be our theme song throughout this adoption.

Waiting can be so hard but we will be Faithful to the Lord and Worship Him while we wait to bring home our baby.

While I'm waiting....

Step 1:Complete

The first step of the adoption process is complete! Even though this is a very small step in the skeme of things, it's still just as important! We completed our preliminary application and submitted it. This application is pretty basic and it's basically just making sure you live in the area of the agency and have jobs, etc. We should find out soon if we have "passed" and made it to the next level.

We will also be attending a mandatory adoptiong meeting the first week in February. Every couple that chooses to adopt from this agency must complete this meeting.

The agency we ended up choosing is Bethany Christian Services. We researched a few of the agencies and after having some people refer us to them and talking with the coordinator we feel this is the best fit for us. (www.bethany.org)

What brought us here...

After Nolan was born, because of my hard pregnancy and having a lupus flare up after delivering, we decided that we were not going to have anymore. The risks were high and the outcome not promising. We felt that it was meant to be that we would just have Nolan. (& Of course Ian). We accepted it but never fully and almost a year ago adoption seemed to lay really heavy in my heart. I read books, blogs, and websites. The more I read the more I realized that it is a possibility for our family. I started to talk to Ross about it and at first he was not very open to it. I think the cost, paperwork, and stress were too much for him to consider it. After all, we were already going through some other things in our life that were pretty stressful and busy.

After many hours of praying, researching, crying, and talking we have decided to pursue an adoption as a way to expand our family. We will be pursuing the infant domestic adoption program and already cannot wait to bring home our little bundle of joy!!!

As you follow our blog, please remember to not only keep our family in your prayers but to keep the Mothers that are out there making that selfless decision to give their baby up for adoption also in your prayers. They are all making the hardest decision of their lives and because of it are fulfilling many wishes for people like us who cannot expand their family biologically. We are ready to take a huge leap of Faith!!!