The Journey
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Two years since it all began
We haven’t posted an update in a while, but we are excited to share some news this summer. Since March, we have completed our home study update and are good to go for another year. We have checked in with our agency again this month and heard that they are working with 12 families (people…
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Waiting is not easy…
Here we are just a few months later to provide an update to our adoption process. We reached out to our agency at the beginning of February and have been having some trouble with consistent communication with them. The same update as it has been the last few times: your book is being shown, all…
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Trusting God’s Timing
Here we are 3 months later. We reached out to our agency and to no surprise here is what they said. 1. Your book looks great. No suggestions. 2. Here is paperwork to complete for your home study renewal (This happens annually until we adopt.) Nothing else. No additional information, or hope. I think this may…
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A Year Since Our Journey Began
Hello all! Thank you for all your prayers, support and love as we continue in this journey. It has officially been a year since we began our journey towards adopting a child. We continue to hope, pray and wish for a child to enter into our lives. A birth family is out there. We know…
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It’s the end of May!
We have had a busy couple of months the last few months as we continue our wait with hoping to match with a family one day. We have been keeping ourselves busy with family, friends, challenges, joys, graduations, preparations for future baby, and so much more. We were finally able to check in with our…
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Last update for a bit
These past two weeks we have spent time washing bedding, clothing, and dishes. We have put together things for our future baby, and have moved things around to make room for all of our child’s items. Tonight we finished organizing books and diapers to be put away. Our book library brings us so much joy…
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Baby shower and excitement
This past month of waiting has been filled with so much joy! We have spent the last month/month and a half planning with family and friends to celebrate our adoption journey and next steps in our adoption. We planned and had our baby shower and it was so helpful to us and to our families…
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Exciting waiting
We had our second home study visit today and when our social worker left, we felt so much relief and excitement! We have not yet been officially approved for our home study, but she indicated that it was just a matter of waiting on any last paperwork to be shared with her on the agency…
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Next Home Study Visit & Baby Shower
We have been pretty busy recently with getting our home ready for our first home visit and just day to day life events. Our first home visit went really well and we are in the middle of trying to finalize any paperwork that was missing. Our references has been an issue as the agency has…
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First Home Study Visit
We finally heard back from our adoption agency and the social worker who will be visiting our house on scheduling a date for them to come visit- January 23rd. As has been true for all of this process, what the next step looks like is different than what we had been told at the beginning…
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