The Date Is Set

The date is set! Our final interviews and home inspection will be done on Monday, and we will be done with this phase of the process! The next step is to make a profile book which they will give out to the birthmothers that are making adoption plans. The birthmother looks through several and picks a family for her unborn child from those. Since I heard about this at our initial meeting I have been dreaming of the day when we would get to this point! But now I am pretty nervous. I was so excited to be able to make a scrapbook about us, but I'm thinking what if they don't like us after they read it? We're not extravagant people, just normal (or at least I like to think we are). What if we forget some major thing that the birthmother thinks is the deciding factor? From the beginning we felt this was God's will for our lives, so I am resigned to the fact that He will see it through, but I just can't shake these doubts. Will we ever get picked?

In the meantime, I have been cleaning up a storm, and, thankfully, I have finished the painting in our future Baby's Room. We don't have furniture for it really yet, but I did set up what we do have to make a makeshift nursery. Now all we need is the main ingredient!

During all of this commotion, my friend Nancee had her first baby. Welcome BIG baby Brayden! 10 lbs 5 oz!

Ideas Needed

Ok, so I'm looking for fundraising ideas, so help me out. I wanna make something and sell it. I thought about making soaps and putting a label on it about our adoption, but I just don't know how well that would go over. Anyone got any good ideas?

Interview #1 done!

So today was our first interview. It was pretty intense at times. Well, for me anyways, but Sarah the social worker was very nice. It helps using a Christian agency that has the same values that we have. She talked about having an open adoption and how the birthparents feel making an adoption plan and following through with it. She asked lots of questions about adopting about what our dream adoption would be like and what kind of child we are looking for. We, of course, told her that whatever God sends us we will love. Within the next couple weeks she will be coming to our house to finish up our individual interviews and inspect our home. Once that is done we move on to the next phase, which is making our profiles. This part of the adoption will require an additional $3,000 which we don't currently have so please keep us in your prayers as we try to raise the needed funds for this phase.