October Update

     Now that we’re knee-deep in the unbearable waiting that our adoption journey has become, we find ourselves doing strange things. Things that we couldn’t imagine ourselves doing just a few weeks ago seem to make sense now. For example, we shopped for baby beds this weekend. Of course, we haven’t been matched with a birth mother yet and, even when we do, we’ll have a few months to get everything ready for our child. But still, for some reason, it makes sense for us to go shopping for baby beds. I’d like to say that’s the only thing we’ve purchased, but I’m not that great of a liar.

     The other unusual (for us) thing that we did this month was walk in our adoption agency’s annual 5k fundraiser. We’ve never been in a 5k before, so we weren’t really sure what to expect, but we ended up having a great day. We were fortunate enough to have beautiful weather and that, combined with getting to walk in a great park and with the wonderful people from the Miriam Project, allowed us to really enjoy our day. Even though it meant waking up at 4am on a Saturday and driving over 2 hours each way, we were very happy that we went. And we’re hoping to take a bigger group with us next year, so start getting in shape. You have a little less than 50 weeks of training time left.

     In the meantime we’re planning our next fundraiser. We’re still working out some of the details, but we’ll be having another dinner on April 12. We’re hoping to also have a silent auction, so if anyone has items they would like to donate or would like to help in any way, please let us know.

    Between planning for a fundraiser, thinking about becoming 5k runners, and purchasing items that we aren’t possibly going to use anytime soon; we’re staying pretty busy. Is it a bunch of stuff that we’ve thrown together just to keep busy and make the waiting more bearable? Yeah, probably. But in all the stuff we’ve been doing, we’re still having a lot of fun with the process. Don’t get me wrong, the waiting sometimes makes me want to pull my hair out, but we know that in the end it’s all going to be worth it. God has our child already picked out for us and His timing (even though sometimes we get frustrated with it) is perfect. Then again, if He wants to move things along a little quicker, you won’t hear us complain.

No August Happenings

We’ve been away from this blog for about a month now, so I’m sure you’re ready to hear about all the progress we’ve made since early August. Are you ready to hear about all you’ve missed? Well here it is….not much.  Like we’ve been for a few months now, we’re still dealing with the waiting. While we wait though, we’re consistently trying to find ways to educate and prepare us for the rest of our adoption process.

     Like we’ve done since we started considering adoption, we’re still reading every kind of adoption material we can get our hands on, listening to adoption podcasts, and watching things on TV about adoption. Recently though, we heard about a national adoption conference that will be in Louisville this year, which is great for us.  We’re looking forward to spending the weekend at this event in October, so hopefully we’ll be able to share a lot of the material from that weekend with you when we do our next blog update.

     As we told you about in our last entry, we’re also preparing for our adoption agency’s annual 5k fundraiser. At the time of our last blog entry this seemed so far off, but now that we’re a week and a half away, I’m starting to get a little concerned. I mean, surely I’ll make it, right? I’ve seen people in worse shape than me who say they’ve been to a 5k, so I like my chances. Plus it’s walking and I could probably walk all day, I suppose. It did help though when Ashley explained to me that “5k” didn’t mean 5,000 miles.

    As far as our actual adoption goes though, we’re still stuck in what seems like an endless amount of waiting. Granted, it’s only been a few months since we’ve finished our home study, and we’re aware that sometimes people have to wait much longer, but the waiting hasn’t gotten any easier. Of course, we hope that by the time we update this blog next month, we’re full of information about all the progress we’ve made to get closer to our child. However, until then, we continue to appreciate all of the support and prayers that you’ve given us. Thanks again.