Where we are in the journey...

You may be curious...where are we in our journey of bringing our child home? We have completed all of our meetings for the home study, turned in a bunch of paperwork, and now we are "waiting to wait". By that, I mean, we are waiting on our home study to be written and approved by our social worker. If approved, she then will send our home study to Bethany Christian Services in Mississippi, which is the office that we are going through to adopt.

Bethany will make sure that we have met all their requirements to be one of their families, and then we will officially be a "waiting family". As a waiting family, you are simply waiting for an expectant mother to choose you to parent her child, or for the agency to call and say they have a child whose mother did not want to choose the family, but she does still want to make an adoption plan. In some cases, the child can already be born when a family receives “the call”. With those options (after becoming a waiting family), it could be a few days before we are placed with a child, or it could be months. We truly will not know until we get that call.

Adoption is a journey....for all involved. By no means do I claim to know everything about adoption, yet I have learned a lot in my role as a counselor the past four years. Throughout this blog, I will shed some light on different aspects of adoption from my perspective and experience thus far. I hope you find this a helpful place to learn and to cultivate a heart for adoption.