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.