Looking Forward

Happy New Year!  As always, I hope next year brings forth many blessings to you all!

I have been starting to feel God's graces in this whole adoption process.  Yesterday, we met with our social worker.  She's okay but initially she wasn't too friendly on my "friendly meter".  She seemed tired and when I asked questions about their own fees...she told me to read the information they had given to me. Really?  She softened up some when she heard our story.  Some good news...since we already went through this adoption process before...some of that information MAY be able to transfer over.  Unfortunately, I had thrown away our license (didn't think we really needed it) and the paperwork.  Thankfully, I threw it in our "to be shredded box" and my dh had not taken it the shredders yet...so we were able to find our old license and paperwork.  We had renewed that license two years ago!  Our new social worker is going to use that old number to see if we have to do fingerprinting again.  We are going to contact that other agency to see if they will send a copy of our home study to this new agency.  I couldn't believe I was able to find that old paperwork!  Lord willing, some of this will all work out and we won't have to go through some of the processes again.

The second thing...is that we finally finished all of the profile and saved it on a cd to send to the agency.  We needed a padded envelope.  We couldn't find one and were thinking we'll have to go to the store to buy it...just one more thing.  I was digging in the closet in my office (which by the way needs a good sorting out and is full of stuff) and between two binders I pull out an unused padded envelope. Really?  It was if God was helping us out.  I laughed.  I know it's a small thing but we know God works in small ways. 

While my dh was taking our profile to the post office...I noticed that we were missing some verbiage...I called him quickly, he came back, we added it to the cd and he is now on the way to the post office again to mail it.  Whew.  Now our profile will soon be in the hands of the agency and in the Lord's hands to connect us with a birth moth.er.

We still have tons to do but we are moving forward.  It's this movement that makes me a little excited.  We cleaned out our extra bedroom...I still have stuff in that closet that needs to come out.  We haven't bought anything yet.  I was looking at Tar.get yesterday...just looking.  I wanted to buy a onesie on clearance but I resisted.  We are making a list of stuff we'll need initially...and the agency even gave us some suggestions on what we'll need when we go to get our forever baby.  We set a budget and figure once we have the baby we can tell our parents and our families...they can get those little extra things.  My dh doesn't think clothes is a good gift...really?  I told him...ummm...babies grow and are in constant need of clothes.  I think my man is going to be in for quite the learning experience.  Yes, he will change diapers...even those "blow out" kind. He's actually changed adults with disabilities diapers...so our baby's should be a piece of cake.

For the New Year...I am going to start working on getting in better shape..with a little one possibly joining our family...I do need to eat healthier (told my dh he's going to have to eat his veggies) and I'm going to work on watching less tv.  I've become quite the couch potato.  Not good.  I need more prayer and since reading and yoga are relaxing for me...more of that.  I've taken to be a reali.ty show junkie.  Hahaha...I guess I enjoy other people's drama.

God Bless you all.

St Anne, St. Colette and St. Catherine of Sweden...pray for us!