Patience

If you want to test your patience....adopt! Seriously, I don't think my patience has been tested like this before! We still haven't heard anything from the BM that is looking for health insurance options which is pretty frustrating to say the least. With her due in 8 weeks, I would think they would need to get her moving on the profile books.

On a side note, we just booked a family vacation to California for April. It's definitely something to get our mind off the waiting game! Kids are excited!!

Other than that...just wanted to update with no news basically! Like I have said before, it's just not our time .... and we have to be o.k. with that.

Profile Showing on hold....

Well we got a call today saying the profile book showing that was scheduled for Monday is on hold. :( BM (Birth Mom) lives with her mom and is on her insurance. Her insurance does not cover prenatal. They looked into getting BM on state insurance but because she lives with her mom, she does not qualify so the agency is looking at some other options. If she can't find any other options, most likely most, if not all, of the prenatal costs will be passed along to the adoption family. Now, I'm not a medical insurance biller or anything but I'm assuming these costs could be over $15,000, which would then force us to withdraw our profile book from being shown. Once they figure out more, she will be able to view profiles.

As someone who said they are not trying to get too excited about this showing, I have to say this phone call kind of let me down! Was just super excited that our profile was FINALLY being shown for the first time! Oh well..hopefully they will figure out the insurance part of things and get BM back to looking at profiles. After all..she is due in approx 9weeks!

Profile showing!!!

On Monday ( jan 23rd) we will have our first profile book showing! So excited but also super nervous. The birth parents have requested they would prefer choosing a family without kids and one with a stay at home mom. Clearly we don't fit the qualifications, however they still show families who don't meet those qualifications because lots of the times they pick a family who originally didn't meet their qualifications! So even though it seems the odds are against us, we are praying for the birth parents to be at peace with their decision and If we are the family to chose than this is what God has planned for us!

The creepy thing is just last night I had a dream our social worker called and said "you've been chosen!" so when my phone rang with b's name on the caller ID I had to stop and take a few big breaths! B hasn't called since the whole premie baby option which was a few months ago. So even though she wasn't calling to tell us we've been chosen, having her call was still super weird!

Hope to give an update next week with whatever the decision is. Please keep our family,the birth parents, and the other families having their profiles shown in your prayers. No matter what decision they make, it will be the right one!

Adoption Tax Credit

As a family who is pursuing adoption, we know the financial burden adoption brings. The adoption tax credit was suppose to end this year and there is a petition started to have it go until 2013. Please sign and pass along to anyone you may know! Thank you!


http://www.change.org/petitions/make-adoption-costs-fully-refundable-in-the-2012-2013-tax-years

Tagxedo

Tagexedo created this using words from my blog and this is how it turned out. Pretty cool! I love how adoption, family, and pray are in bigger letters. Especially since that is the whole focus of this blog! And as you can see, the words are shaped in a baby's footprint:)

A year ago today!

A year ago today this picture was taken! We had just arrived in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico on 1/1/11! What a wonderful way to celebrate a new year! This trip has so much meaning to me because it was truly here where we finalized our decision to adopt. We had been thinking of it for awhile but while on this trip without any other disruptions, we had a lot of reflecting, praying, and just time together to figure out what we wanted as a family. I remember getting home from this trip and starting the paperwork the next day:) Hard to believe it's been a whole YEAR since we have started the process! Praying that we can end 2012 with an adoption this year! :)