Adoption Update

I sent our homestudy to a couple of county agencies that have children avaliable for adoption. We received one of our homestudies back the county rejected it. They didn't say why. I guess because our information didn't match with who they were looking for in a parent. I am getting use to being rejected. It still hurts each time they turn us down, but its getting easier each time. I am still struggling with the waiting process. I know God has the right baby for us, but it's really hard to wait.

Agency

Well we finally heard from our agency. They currently have no birthmom's they are working with that are ready to give up their baby for adoption. They have only placed 6 babies since November of '07. From what of the head of the agency said, they just started this program and have not had too many birthmom's to work with yet. Most of who they work with already have a family. So we dont know exactly how things will turn out. I am trying to be faithful and trust in God for the whole process, but it has been really hard.

I am starting to wonder if we chose the right agency. I don't want to wait forever, but I really want the personal attention that we get from this agency.

Waiting.......

Ok so we are now just waiting.. waiting for it to cool down a little more, waiting for OSU to do well in their next game, waiting for the phone to ring so I can make some extra money by substituting somewhere in the county, and yes of course waiting for that special child God is going to give us.

As my last post stated we sent in our books, never got a call that the agency received them..so about a week later I called them & they said they had received them. In the mail that day we received the invoice for the money sent with the books. Now, I am getting a little irritated because no one from the agency has contacted us at all. I don't know if they are even paying attention to our stuff. I want to call and make sure we have sent everything. I sent them their money, so they better do their part. (I am a little frustrated with this if you can't tell) ;)

Anyway, I am going to call sometime this week, but waiting a couple days because we had such a bad windstorm on Sunday and a lot of people in our area & throughout the state are without power. I just want to know if there is anything else I can do other than just be patient. Being patient is not my thing. I am learning it more everyday because of all that we have gone though. I am trying to just trust God & let him show me what he wants me to do while I wait.

I need to work on my scrapbook stuff, which would help the day pass quicker, but I am procrastinating a little, ok a lot. haha ;)

thats my venting for now.. for those of you that know us and want to enjoy something fun of Justin I have added a GREAT video for you to check out. This video is from our youth group's fall kickoff night. All the male youth workers decided to try their hand at a game the kids played... it was a popsicle eating contest.

Enjoy

Profile Books

I sent our profile books to the agency today. God blessed us with the finances we needed to finish the books, get them copied, and sent to the agency. I am so glad that there is something else we are doing now. Now we wait until the agency finds a baby. We are also willing to adopt if someone we know has a baby, but with the agency we feel something else can be done. I was feeling as if there was nothing else to do and I was tired of waiting on all the friends who said they know someone who wants to give up their baby. It became a depressing & stressful time. Who knows now that we have the stuff at the agency, we may getting calls from birthparents soon. I will keep you updated.