"Our Child"

Our Child

I haven't met you yet or seen your face,
but in my heart you hold a place.
My hopes grow with each passing day,
even though you're miles away.
I know you're there waiting for me,
as I am here waiting to see,
the child God has sent from above,
to make me your Mom and share all my love.
-unknown

The kids

I finally figured it out!

After many unsuccessful attempts I found the program on my new laptop to make my pictures smaller so they could be viewed on this blog and email. It was so frustrating to have things changed on me. Might seem so simple to all you computer geeks, but it was opening my pictures in a completely different program and we could not figure out how to make the pixels smaller so we could put them on here. So this was a late night but oh am I happy now. Thanks to our wonderful photographer Jill we have new family photos (I hate to admit this!) and haven't had any since little girl was less than 1-yrs old! You'd never believe I was in the photography business for 6 + years! I guess I'm always the one taken the pictures and it was so much easier having her do it. Just think next year we'll have to have new ones taken for our family of 5!!! Yea!!

Come on September referrals!! (It's not us yet) But we all pray those that are ahead of us waiting in their final stages will hear news soon. I can't imagine the heart-ache of waiting and waiting. Then there's those that have their referral and are waiting for TA -travel announcement news! They know who their little ones are, have their pictures and updates and are waiting to go get them. Let's pray for them as well. May their babies be well taken care of and healthy. For those of you that have given birth and know all the pregnancy symptoms....the same thing happens when you're adopting. Some call it "paper pregnant". You're irritable, anxious, emotional, afraid of the unknown, nervous about the baby/child, tired, tired of waiting, stressed over little news you read about on the internet! I feel for those that are closer in the stages then we are. As someone on another blog stated, you hurry, hurry, hurry to get your paperwork done, then you wait, wait, wait, and wait some more. But I believe that the baby that is meant to be ours will be ours when she is suppose to! Great things come to those that wait. We had to be patient with our 1st two, now patient with our 3rd.

Fun Baby shopping

I love looking at baby things online. The only thing I've bought so far are some books. Since we requested an infant 0-12 mos. we don't have any idea how old she will be. So I can't buy anything yet! She could be 4-months she could be around a year. I guess it's a good thing I can't shop yet! You can sure find some great things online!!

Our agency is expecting a couple referrals anyday! We're all hoping it will happen this week!
Very exciting! Another group is leaving very soon to travel. Pray for everyones safe travel and speedy referrals.

Do we take our Son?

Sorry I haven't written much lately. My Mom has been in and out of the hospital twice this summer. She is home and feeling better now. Plus we are short staffed at our store since all the college kids went back to school. This always happens this time of year.

I wasn't thinking about taking our Son before because I thought our little 4-yr old would be real lonely without all 3-of us. But when I talked to her about it she actually sounded happy to have her Aunt and Grandma all to herself. Although she doesn't have a concept on how long we will be gone. Our Son will be almost 10 so it would be a great age. He was worried about the long flight but said it would probably be ok if he had a Nintendo DS! Right! He knows how to work us! I think it would be a great life experience for him to go. But I so worry about our little girl missing us all that I think he'll probably stay with her. I wish we didn't have to stay so long. Right now families have been averaging 18-days. That's a long time! Our 4-yr old is NOT a good traveler or I might consider taking her. But then we would also have to take someone else to help with the kids and another hotel room! That would be a huge extra chunk of $$$$. I think they would stress me out. It might be enough if the baby is sick or has attachment issues.

Our agency may have a few referrals to announce very soon! We all hope so! I think we're number 9 because someone had to stop their adoption process. Right now we're thinking our referral may come in January. Then travel is approximately 3-months later. Let's all pray for LOTS of referrals this month!!!!!!!!!!!!!