Wondering about the adoption?? Yes, we are still doing it! Today we scheduled our homestudy appointments with our Social Worker-YES! We are in the process of paperchasing (i.e. gathering all of the documents) too, so we are checking items off the list. I think I will eventually post a timeline here on our blog. When you adopt internationally, you tend to celebrate each small completed task as a monumental step in bringing your child home-every tiny step brings you closer.......I have to keep reminding myself that we have only been "officially" working on this adoption for a little over a month (that includes all of the time we spent applying to our agencies).
I keep reminding myself that we are "seasoned" adoptive parents. For the most part, this process is out of the realm of our control. It will happen when it happens, period. End of story. And yes (I cannot believe I am actually saying this) you WILL eventually end up with the child that was meant to be yours. I swore I would puke (or spew obscenities) at the next person who told us this while we were waiting for our Alina Jayne to come home to us from China. But you know what? She is PERFECT for our family. She could not fit in better if she was born to us from our bodies! Somehow (although I do not claim to understand it), it all works out the way it is supposed to.
So we continue to plug away at the gathering of documents, interviews of the family, fingerprinting, physicals, and other intrusions into the most intimate parts of our lives...............until one day our child is FINALLY home from Ethiopia.
Check back soon!
