Our Child

With anxious hearts and open arms, we sought you everywhere. You, dear child, are a gift from God. The answer to our prayers. No matter whether birth or choice, a home is blessed from above. When caring parents claim their child, A family is formed by love.

Yesterday after Thanksgiving lunch, we all moved to the porch to watch the kids play and enjoy the sunshine. Dean came out and sat in front of me. After a few minutes passed I looked at him and there it was. A ladybug was crawling across his shirt. It was a beautiful site and reminder of our journey ahead. I wanted to get the camera and take a picture but didn't want to clue anyone off. He picked the ladybug up and let her crawl around on his finger for a few minutes. We are so thankful to be able to adopt and it was just a reminder of how blessed we really are to be adopting.

1st Homestudy visit done

We have completed our first homestudy visit. Our social worker is very nice and has 3 children, 2 have been adopted internationally. This first meeting was just a get to know you kinda meeting. We talked for about an hour and then she did the quick tour of the home. Every room was clean except what will be the nursery. It is rather a mess right now. I have got to get working on sorting all my clothes in there and have a yard sell. Things are moving along and our next visit will be on Dec 4th. We will do our individual private visits with her at this meeting. We have been talking about names and playing with some for a day or two. Dean is pretty much set on Emily and I like it but think it is too premature to decide now. So for now we will just continue to dream about our future daughter and imagine what her name will be, what her laugh will sound like and the feel of her hugs.

Fingerprints done!!!!!!

One more step completed!!! We got our fingerprints done today. I kept giving D instructions on what I have heard from my internet friends as to proper fingerprint technique. He was well informed. I was called first to get my fingerprints. I got to the area and turned to see D surrounded by 3 INS workers. My only thoughts were "Oh, Sh*t, what has he done, something is wrong." Meanwhile this poor woman is trying to take my fingerprints. Slowly D starts to walk over to get his fingerprints taken and is about 5 feet away from me, but I couldn't find my voice. I just could not even remember to ask him what had happened. I was just so happy to see him getting his fingerprints taken. Meanwhile, my fingerprinter starts telling me to stop pressing down. I didn't feel like I was pressing down, I was. It was pretty funny, she was telling me to "Look at your husband, look at your husband." The more that I looked at him the worse my prints were turning out. I finally had to just look at the wall and not focus on anything to get my prints to work. She was the fastest fingerprinter that we had been watching but she made sure to tell me that, "I was making her work!" We finally both got our fingerprints completed and it was 10 minutes down the road before I even remembered to ask him what all the fuss was about. It ended up to not even be about him and they were checking out someone else's paperwork. I got all worked up about NOTHING! Can you imagine how I will be when we are about to get our daughter? I already know, I will be CRAZY!!!!

I forgot to mention... Today is our 4th Wedding Anniversary!!! I love you!

Fingerprint Me Please!

We go tomorrow for our fingerprint appts. Time to get this ball rolling. It is so easy and yet so hard to imagine our little girl. We have dreamed of becoming parents for 2 years and our dream still seems so very far away. D talked with the social worker the other night and we have our first visit on Monday. She did tell him of about 6 other couples from our area that are adopting. I wish that we could all somehow get together. Maybe she will have more info on Monday. Next step is the physicals and getting our employment records notarized. Surely we will have the dossier completed before April, then all we will have to wait for is my 30th birthday!

Passports!!!

So happy we got our Passports today!!!!!!!!!!! I have been checking the mail for them daily!!! We also got our fingerprint appts and it is scheduled for our anniversary!!!! I am still working on the paper work for the home study agency. I am hoping to finish it tonight and mail it tomorrow. Trying to work, fill out paperwork and finish my real estate course on time has been challenging. We are so excited about adopting and having a little girl to share our lives with and to love. We throw names out there sometimes and will call her that for a day or two to see if we like it. It is fun to daydream! We love you even though you are probably not born yet!