Monday, November 13, 2017

Labels: adoption / adoption monthly summary

This post covers our 18th month in the adoption process (from September 30th through November 10th). You can read all of our adoption related posts here! Thanks again to Lemon Treehouse for our "in waiting" cards Things Learned and Accomplished This Month: It was a wild and crazy month but I'm so, so thankful for it. Timing couldn't have been better! After meeting Mama E we have a LULL period. Just waiting. And it's been a HUGE blessing for my anxiety and worries and help in speeding along the wait by having such a fun-filled month! We went to Disney for Britt's birthday... and turned around 4 days later and Zach and I flew to Hawaii! After meeting with Mama E we texted a bit but it was tricky because my "reason for texting" in the past had been to work out setting up when we'd meet and it was hard to come up with "reasons" to be communicating with her. I struggled with it because I wanted to reach out...

17 Months Waiting (AKA The Month We Met Mama E)

Monday, October 2, 2017

Labels: adoption / adoption monthly summary / ultrasound

This post covers August 30th through September 29th...our 17th month into this process and a very special month :) Please visit our Adoption Page to catch up on our journey! Thanks again to Lemon Treehouse for our "in waiting" cards Things Learned and Accomplished This Month: It was a very, very exciting month for our family! While it's easy to get caught up in the baby news, I had to also make sure to complete our home study stuff too so it could be renewed. I had several people say "Oh yay! You're matched so no home study right?" Nope. Home study has to be current and up to date at the time of placement. I'm not sure if it has to remain current for finalization or not? But either way we should be good with this being our last renewal of the home study! Yay! August was a month of major downs followed by MAJOR ups for us. After the first week in August when we had 3 "nos" in a row I was really, really down. And when I...

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