Walk with us as we take our 4th adoption journey. Each one has been different, many times an emotional roller coaster but we have been SO blessed to have been entrusted with these beautiful children by their birth mothers. A huge THANK YOU to each birth parent who chose to give life to their baby & then made the incredibly hard decision to give that baby to someone else to raise for a variety of reasons.
Once in a while we get the question asked of us about how we are coping during this long adoption wait. We don’t talk about it much here on the blog simply because we know it can get a little monotonous when someone goes on and on about something. With […]
Don’t panic! We are not in trouble! I know the words “social worker” don’t always conjure up a very pleasant thought for some folks. For us, today was the home visit for our homestudy update, needed in order to continue with the adoption process. It was a very pleasant afternoon […]
Along with signing up with Lifetime for our next adoption there are several things that we have to do for them, one of which is creating a Profile i.e Photo Album which includes a letter to a Birthmom telling her more about ourselves. Lifetime really likes their adoptive parents to […]
Many of you know that we have been waiting to do another adoption, actually #4 for us. We had our homestudy completed in March 2012. At that time we did not have the finances to go through an agency etc & had hoped that we would find a baby privately. […]
Our social worker & her husband came out on Sunday & handed us our completed Home Study! Whoo Hoo! For those of you not familiar with adoption laws etc no one can adopt without a completed Home Study. In that Home Study are details of each member of the family, […]
This is a day of good news for y’all! Today we started the home-study process for Adoption #4. Very exciting! We had wanted to do this adoption last year (2011) & had actually sent off our application to an agency. Believe it or not, they cashed our check but we […]