Application Accepted!

We received an email today formally accepting us into the adoption process with Hope's Promise!  I had hopes what we would have our initial interview with them the first week of September, and in order for that to happen we need to have $2000 as this meeting will also start our home study process!  We are about halfway there and praying to begin this process as soon as possible!  We are continually reminded that God knows who our Birth Mom is, when she will conceive and when she will be looking at adoptive parent profiles!  He holds the timeline in His hands and we are SO thankful to have such loving, wise and strong hands to rest in. 

We continue to be amazed and incredibly grateful for those who have already partnered with us in this process!  Both financially and otherwise!  We feel so blessed and so thankful for each of your support.  We pray that God would bless you for your great kindness. 

One step closer to bringing our baby home forever!

Woo Hoo!

After spending a little extra time praying about this decision and talking it through with some deeply trusted friends, we have sent in the non-refundable deposit and first chunk of paperwork :)  Our next step will be to have an appointment to meet our social worker and receive our next big chunk of paperwork.   AND today we reached 50 puzzle pieces sponsored!  

WE ARE SO EXCITED!!!!!

A Few Tiny Steps :)

A couple of pretty exciting (to us) things happened today!

~Our Puzzle Arrived!!!  We ordered it just over 10 days ago and were so excited to be putting it together and sharing the progress in slideshow form here on our blog. Slowly but surely we are going to get there.  We are assured with peace that the Lord will provide the money just as we need it.  He is putting these pieces together :)

~We set up our account!!  We wanted to have a checking account used only for our adoption and we were both beaming with excitement!  With huge grins on both of our faces we spoke to our familiar banker lady and shared our happy news as she helped us open the account.  SO much fun :)

~Permission to Dream!  Along this infertility path we have held ourselves back from dreaming.  Except for those brief weeks of pregnancy, we haven't put voice to our hopes and questions.  The past couple of days we have enjoyed moments of dreaming.  Will our baby be a boy or a girl?  What will they look like?  Will he or she be here one year from now?  By Thanksgiving?  Christmas?  Permission to dream has been HUGE!

The Relief of Letting Go

It's been a little over one week since we made the adoption decision.  There has been a bit of grief but for the most part there has been a great sense of relief.  A burden being lifted.  I'm so thankful for the blessing of letting go.

No More:

• frequent doctors appointments
• oral medications 
• hormonal side effects
• shots
• temperature charts
• hormone patches
• ovulation tests
• 2 week waits
• timed intercourse
• cold doctors office bathroom floors (yeah...don't ask)
• ultrasounds
• negative pregnancy tests
• and so much more!

Embracing this new dream has been amazing!  Challenging for sure.  But I am so excited.  Adoption carries with it a brand new set of things to look forward to and issues to process.  Its exciting to look into the future and finally be confident that we will be parents someday!  To talk about it and plan for it as if we are just at the beginning of a long and open ended pregnancy. 

What a relief!  :)

"Hope deferred makes the heart sick, 

but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life."  

Proverbs 13:12