Our Family Blog

We received mail from the adoption agency today that we are scheduled for our profile meeting on April 14th and our Video Session on April 23rd. I treasure every piece of mail that comes from the adoption agency. It also always seems to come when I feel like we have not heard from them in awhile. Even if its only been like two weeks! As fast as the days are going, in my adoption heart, time is dragging along. I sit in the nursery every night and pray for patience and hope that wherever my baby is at this time they are safe and well cared for.

Our video session is an 8 minute clip of Steve and I talking about who we are, why we are adopting, and what we can basically bring to the table and how we are able to care for a child. I am a little nervous about it but 8 minutes is nothing, and with Steve, it will be a lot of fun. We will be going in the profile books on April 23rd as we will have all of our profile’s together by that time.

Just keeping you all posted, please continue to pray for us and Baby X. Love to all.

Ok, so I’ll be the first to admit it when I go overboard, as I might have done slightly this past weekend. I admit that I freaked out a little too much. Caused a bit of a chain reaction within the family, and as a result feel so blessed and so supported and so loved. What started with a panic of the possibility of a baby coming into our lives with us being completely unprepared, has ended up with us feeling much more comfortable. We were blessed with a few gifts this weekend, a new crib and a new stroller/baby seat. We also treated the nursery to a new closet organizer and bought baby fluffy (as Pops somehow named him/her) some new clothes. Also my sister was kind enough to loan us some of the baby essentials she used for Maddie. Sunday Maddie and her daddy Bob came to deliver the gift of the crib.
Today at 10:00 am Lauren from AFTH came for our home study visit. All done! She didn’t find any dead bodies and felt that our home is pretty safe to raise a baby in. She also didn’t get shot at on the way in, so that’s a bonus. She also set my nerves at ease and let me and Jess know that while yes, it is possible to get a call prior to us doing our profiles, it isn’t all that common. Our profile meeting is on April 14th and our video session is on April 23rd. Plenty of time to relax. So we are all done with our home study.

Here are the updates to the nursery:

Some of our blessings have come in the way of a crib and a stroller

Baby Fluffy gets a closet organizer and some baby gear.

Lil’ Maddie gives her approval on the baby gear

Then Maddie takes a stroll down memory lane of “when I was a yittle baby”

I’ve been freaking out a little bit the later part of this week. We have our home study visit this coming Tuesday, but that’s not what’s freaking me out. Jess spoke to Lauren, our social worker at AFTH and they were discussing our profile key. The profile key is the next step for us and it is where we tell the agency the specifics of what sor tof child we are looking to adopt. The key covers everything from ethnicity, mixes of ethnic background, parents mental history, methods of conception (rape, incest, etc.) and levels of drugs used during the various 3 trimesters. We are pretty sure we know how we will officially fill out the key but are doing more research to be sure. I guess Lauren asked Jess if we were open to adopting a baby of mixed race and Jess said yes, because we are. Lauren said that after Tuesday we could get a call at any time. Did you hear me? Any time! The more open adoptive families are to a wider selection on hte adoption key, the more babies are available. We don’t want to compromise what we feel in our hearts as far as the health and background of our baby, but wow, this could really happen soon.
So, needless to say, I am freaking out a little bit. Our Nursery is painted, and that’s it. It’s completely empty and we hadn’t planned on furnishing it for a little while yet.

The front of the house, so much sunlight in the morning.

See, even the closet is pretty empty, except 39 infant diapers. (Jess put one on the Teddy Bear)

Baby’s excape route.

That’s the corner where I’ll be building a window seat/toy chest and we’ll be painting a mural on the wall.

So, that’ll all be taken care of and I’m not going to make myself crazy. I’m also a little freaked out at just how quickly and smoothly this entire process has been. Oh yea, and at the fact that one of my biggest dreams ever is about to come true. And the fact that I have no clue how much this will truely affect my life (in an absolutely amazing way).
This weekend will probably be spent doing the little fix-r-up things around the house that I’ve been putting off since we moved in as well as putting more shelves in the baby’s closet. I’m sure Jess will talk me into going shopping for baby stuff. Those pictures above won’t stay naked for long.
I’m not really freaking out, I’m just amazingly excited at the possibility of having a baby so damn soon. I can’t wait for Jess and I to be parents. It’ll be great.