Tornado Warning

Well, I lived through my first tornado warning. I know this really doesn't have anything to do with adoption, but I figured I could post about it anyway. Since we have lived here there have been many tornado watches and a few tornado warnings in other counties close to us, but I cannot recall ever having a tornado warning in our county. Well, yesterday we did and it was one after the other. The sirens went off about 5 times from the time we got home from church through the evening. The storm was from hurricane Rita. It made me nervous at first, I really don't like the sound of the siren. We were fine, and no tornadoes hit down by us, but there was a tornado that hit MS State campus. We are actually on the other side of town from the campus (the city is small, so that really isn't that far still, but not real close either). They cancelled morning classes today so they could clean up. There were some residence halls that were hit and there was a mobile home park that was hit off campus. There was no deaths, thank goodness, but there were some people hurt from the mobile home park, and of course some of the mobile homes were destroyed. So that was my first experience through a tornado warning, and I am sure it won't be my last.

Now to focus more on our adoption journey. The other day Mike and I were talking about baby stuff. We were in the car driving home for lunch and I think we were discussing buying a crib. So we started talking about how everything could happen so quickly and how we probably should start buying some things to have on hand, in case we don't have a lot of time to when we find out we have been matched. As we are talking about this, Mike says to me, "you know, it could happen today, when we get home there might be a message on our answering machine from Brother Watson" (our social worker). I just kind of laughed at him at agreed that yes that was a possibility. We arrived home and Mike notices there is a message on the answering machine and he looks at me and says, "see that's Brother Watson". So I press play and who do you think it is, Brother Watson. Of course my heart jumped in my throat, but I knew there really could be a million other reasons why he was calling. But I still couldn't wait to find out, so I called him right back. Unfortunately he wasn't calling us to tell us we were matched or even that we were being considered. He found a mistake on our profile that we needed to fix and that was all. Now we have that fixed, so hopefully the next time he calls, it will be to give us happy news.

Online profile up

We just got the email that said they have published are online profile with LDS Family Services. It is nice to know that people can find us on the web. Who knows what may come from that.

Life has been extremely busy right now. It seems that everything that needs to get done always falls on the same week. I survived my first Enrichment night and although I was extremely stressed about it, it did go well.

I wish there was more I could do towards finding our baby. Hopefully I will think of some ideas that will not take a lot of time, as my time seems short these days. Mike decided he couldn't take me stressing out so much so he showed me how to schedule out my time better. It is sweet of him and I will start to do it, but I cannot guarantee that I still won't stress.

I find myself thinking about adoption all the time. I seem to notice pregnant women everywhere, and I always have such an excitement when I see them. I really don't know why, but it is completely different than when I was going through infertility because I would see a pregnant women and feel sad. Now, its almost as if I am not infertile anymore. It doesn't really make sense, but I am happy that I do not feel the same sadness as before.

Approved!!!!

We got the call and we have been approved. It is so nice to hear that. What's even more exciting is that our profile is being shown to a potential birthmother today. I know that the we could still be a long way to having our baby, but it is just so exciting to me to be approved. Of course there is still tons of things that we could be doing to "find" our baby, so we need to start working on those. One of them is getting our online profile finished with LDS FS, that is the first thing on my list to do. I have received a new calling at church as 2nd counselor in the RS presidency, so that will make my life even more busy. But I am not concerned with that at this time. I am just so excited to be approved. Yah!!!