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As I go about my day today, I can’t help but think what this next year, 2005, is going to bless Steve and I with. I am so excited to see what God has in store for us. There are so many possibilities that will become our realties. Gainful employment, peace of mind, newborn baby, new chosen spiritual paths, and all of our family and friends blessings that will also occur this year.

Today is a day of total and absolute reflection. Reflection on the path that brought us this far, and the continued hope that God’s will continue to be our own true will for ourselves.

Love to all!

All of the books I am reading state that preparing for the baby by creating a nursery is a great thing to do while in the “waiting” period. Steve and I begin our homestudy on January 20, 2005. The process will take about two months. After the two months we start waiting for our child which can take anywhere from 1 week to 9 months.

I looked at Steve tonight on the couch and said, “Oh my god, I am going to be a mother, and you are going to be a father!” I have these moments every now and then that are so exciting I can hardly contain myself. I am excited all day long and most of the time can not stop smiling. So in preparing to be a mother, I wanted to share this statement from another book I am reading, “Raising Adopted Children,” which says:

The physical presence of the crib allowed me to believe that it would be occupied one day and started me on the psychological process of becoming a mother.

I am so excited. Did I mention that?

Needless to say, I have been doing a lot of reading to prepare Steve and I for this journey. I read and report to Steve I found a beautiful adoption prayer in a book I am reading, “The New Jewish Baby Book - A Guide for Today’s Families.” It is as follows:

Adoption…..

We did not plant you, true
But when the season is done,
When the alternate prayers
For sun and for rain are counted,
When the pain of weeding
And the pride of watching are through,
I will hold you high,
A shining sheaf
Above the thousand seeds grown wild.
Not by our planting,
But by heaven,
Our harvest.
Our own child.

Jess and I have begun the process to adopt a baby. We are eager to have a child and feel that this is the next best way to do it. We are both healthy and the doctors say that there is nothing wrong with us, however for some unknown reason we’ve not been successful in getting pregnant. We are excited about adopting and have chosen to work with Adoptions from the Heart (AFTH) to find a birth mother. We submitted our application a few weeks ago and had our first meeting with the social worker at AFTH today. The meeting was good, it gave us a deeper understanding into te process we are about to undergo, the things we will have to do, and what the agency ewill be doing for us.
We will be using thegubermans.com to document the process for us as well as for others. Please check back from time to time to monitor our process. It should be pretty exciting.