Pregnancy gives you nine months to prepare. Adoption gives you paperwork. :) I attended adoption orientation last night and wow, talk about a lot to take in. Three and a half hours of information and forms. 44 at my best count. This weekend at the womens conference I went to, the speaker talked about thanking God for the gifts He gives us. (Much more on this later!) So as overwhelming as the paperwork seems, it is our chance to sit down and prepare to be parents in a way. Some of the forms are just facts and figures and others are questions about the size of our windows, our emergency plans, and number and dates of our smoke detectors. The biggest component of the paperwork is an autobiography for both Jeremy and me. It has some tough questions about how we'd handle specific situations when it comes to our child. Basically it's the questions that every parents probably wishes someone had asked them to think through.... we get the chance to sit down and discuss and pray over those decisions now. That's gracious of Him to give us this opportunity. For our good. For our child's good. So let's do this.
From this point, I probably will not be blogging as much about the actual process. Paper work isn't exactly blog worthy. Our next steps will be two days worth of training and paperwork in the next few weeks. The goal would be to have paperwork and training all completed sometime in April- Lord willing and the creeks don't rise. :) From there it's up to DSS to schedule our home study if all paperwork looks good. I'll still be blogging about what I'm reading and other lessons I'm sure we'll learn along the way.
Love y'all!
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