"Unofficially Approved"

What a busy weekend. Not quite as busy as the garage sale but it was full of tasks around the house. We both took Monday off from work so that we could be home for the Health/Environmental Evaluation and Home Study. It went very well and the puppies behaved themselves beautifully, as I expected.

The health inspection was simple and easy. There were really no concerns at all. The funniest part though was our lame excuse at marking the glass door at a child's height. It is required so that the kids do not run through the glass (like I did in college so I'm all for it). Although I don't know how often we will be worried about that with an infant. Anyway, we could not find peel and stick decals anywhere so we decided to stencil with glass paint. Totally a waste of money on the stencils, they didn't work at all so we just spray painted 2 lines about 2 inches thick straight across the doors. It gets the job done, you definitely notice the doors and probably would stop to laugh at them instead of running through it.

On to the home study. It was very smooth and not stressful at all. Our social worker had put together most of the information she needed from our application and autobiographies, so there were very few questions to answer. We answered a few together and then she "interviewed" each of us individually. We toured the house, went over a few specifics about what we are open to with the adoption and discussed the next steps. Which basically are waiting to hear that we are "Officially Approved", which should happen later this week, and then just waiting to find out when a birthmother picks us. We should be listed on the Generations Adoptions website under the approved families section by next week.

So the "wait" part of the "hurry up and wait" situation is upon us now. Please pray that we can keep our emotions in check. We know that God has a baby already picked for us and we have to remember to let him bring us together under his timetable and not ours.

What are we going to do now you ask? Jenny is already talking about registering for the upcoming baby showers that people have planned for us. My focus is back to our debt. I figure we should be able to complete our adoption fund and be out of debt by mid-August. How our lives are going to change over the next few months in so many ways.

For those of you still waiting for information about how the 8 hour training class went, Jenny will be posting about that soon. She'll probably also tell you a little about our decision to move towards an open adoption and what that means. So stay tuned.

In Christ,
Jerry

And remember..."If you're not first you're last!" from the great Ricky Bobby (yes he has two first names).