Quick Update

Ok party peoples, here's the current low down on our adoption progress. As of now all we are waiting on is a media specialist at the adoption agency to finish putting together our family profile. That's it.  Our home study is complete and has been reviewed by the agency.  The video profile has been done and turned in to be created.  All of the paperwork, questionnaire's and mindless other annoying but necessary tasks have been completed.  Within the next few weeks we should be Active with our agency!

I've had a lot of questions about this, mostly from people I work with, but I'll explain the whole process of being active here so that people get an idea of what we're talking about.  When we signed on with our agency we had to fill out a questionnaire about our basic family life (religion, school background, jobs, etc) along with answering questions about what type of race we are willing to adopt, substance use by the mother and her medical history.  Now, when a woman is considering adoption and she makes an adoption plan with our agency she fills out a similar questionnaire.  She'll select things like, "Wants a Christian family" or she only wants to be shown families who currently don't have children or things of that nature. Basically, we both put down what we're looking for and based on our answers, if they are compatible, the adoption agency will show our profile to the perspective birth mother.  If she likes us, we'll schedule a meeting.  Or if she flat out chooses us, then we'll get notified by the agency and will be given all of the pertinent info and are asked if we accept.  It's very much like a match making service bringing two people together.  I think it's a very wonderful way of ensuring both sides are happy with the decision and it gives us both a chance to hopefully be as informed about each other as possible.

With all that being said, we are only weeks away from our profile being shown to perspective parents.  We could be getting a phone call soon after we are active, or it may come several months down the line.  But the point is that we are infinitely more closer to achieving our  goal of becoming parents.  I have started to make a list of what I want to have ready to go when we do get the call. I want to have a bag all packed for the baby that includes at least clothes that have been washed, diapers wipes and bottles.  This weekend I want to go look at baby furniture to get that all set and ready to go.

Other than that, we're just trucking along.  I'll post again when we're active and with any other updates. :)

Love,
Sammee

Family Profile

So as a quick update we are very close to getting our family profile completed.  All we have to do is the video profile portion this week before we send back the video camera and then as long as the media specialists don't need anything else, we're done submitting stuff.  Once the profile is put together and approved by us then we'll be able to active our profile and we'll be shown to potential birth families. I can't believe it's finally coming together.  It seems so surreal that I'm actual close to acheiving my goal.  When I was visiting my in-laws this weekend we went to the Cracker Barrel for breakfast and I found a little boys sock monkey outfit that was so adorable I just had to buy it.  The cool thing is that it can be used for either boy or girl so it will work no matter what we get :). My mother-in-law said she can't wait to have a grand baby to spoil so I'm glad we're finally able to tell, it won't be much longer until we're just waiting on a phone call.  My best friend thinks we'll be matched by Christmas but that's too ambitious for me to hope that it will work out that way. 

Other than that, there's no other major news to report. We're visiting my family this month so I'll be using this time to soak in the time with my nephew and my mom and dad and enjoy filming all the glorious stuff that I miss so much.