Everything sent today

We are sending off the rest of our stuff today. Birthparent letter and collage (we had to send out about 20 copies). Hopefully some time in the next week or two we will find out if we are approved. I can't believe how quickly this all went. School started this week for Mike and I, and I am afraid that we are not going to have enough time to do the "finding" that we want to because of our schedules. But it will be nice to be approved, and I can be more patient when I am busy, so maybe it is a good thing that I will have so much to do. I had a dream last night that I met a potential birthmom and that she was due in Oct. In my dream I just met her, but I felt like she was going to pick us. I can't imagine having a baby that quickly, I know it was just a dream, but it still kind of freaked me out when I woke up. Although in my dream I just felt excited.

Photo collage complete (I hope)

Well, I just got the photo collage sent off to Brother Watson. I discovered that Mike and I had a completely different view on how it should be done, but I think we finally worked it out and have a pretty good collage. We will wait to see if Brother Watson has any suggestions to make it better, but if he likes it, than we should be finished with everything. Oh, we still have to make a few minor changes to our birthparent letter but that should not take long. We are waiting on some feedback from the staff at the Georgia Agency before we make the changes. Everything is so close to being finished, it's all so exciting. Once we are approved we can actively start "finding". I am afraid with school starting that neither of us will have a lot of time to do that, but I am sure we will make time whenever we can, because it is so important to us to start this family. That is all for now.

The beginning of our adoption journey

We are trying to grow our family through adoption. I decided to start this journal so that I can keep track of all that is happening as we go through the adoption process and also so that I can easily share it with others. I think it will mostly be me posting here, but hopefully Mike will have some time to post his thoughts and such once in a while. I truly feel that our journey has just began. We made the decision to adopt about 3 months ago, but now we are really close to being approved and I feel that when we are approved the real journey will begin. Mike and I are so very excited to adopt. We know that it is right for our family. I will try to keep this updated with all that happens throughout our adoption process. We have all our interviews finished and the paperwork done. We just need to finish our photo collage and then should be approved shortly after.