The past six days have been a roller coaster of emotions for me. On Friday, I received an email from our adoption consultant. In the email she stated that she knew it was probably a long shot, but that there was an expectant mom carrying a baby boy due on July 6th that was not yet matched. Yes, due July 6th, as in 9 days from the moment I read that email. She asked if we would be interested in presenting our family profile and told me to call her if we wanted to move forward.
To say that my heart skipped a beat would be an understatement. My heart started racing. Oh my goodness, a baby that needs a home and a mama and a daddy. We have a home! We could be that mama and daddy! I immediately forwarded the email to Travis {who was already at work} and sent him a text message telling him to check his email as soon as he had a minute. All the while my heart and mind continued to race. Could this be it? Could this be our baby? Is it really time?
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Travis and I began the journey of adoption a long time ago. God made it very clear to us very early on in our lives that we were called to adoption. If you want to know more about why we feel we are called to this journey, you can do so here. Since we’ve known for a long time this is something we would pursue, our question had always been “when?” You can read about how the Lord revealed to us the time is now here. The next question was “what type of adoption?” Read about our journey to domestic here.
After all of that journey, processing and decision-making, we still arrived at another big question, “how do we do this?” I will say this a million times, the adoption process is OVERWHELMING! There are a million different avenues and routes you can take. How do we know which one is the best? How do we know which agency is the most moral and ethical? How can we complete this process without it taking three years? And on and on.
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This week we completed another huge step in our adoption process! We had our second and final home visit with our social worker for our home study. This means we are {pretty much} home study approved! I say pretty much because our social worker still has to finish writing our report, and then she has to pass it along to her supervisor. However, we have done everything we need to do, and she told us at the end of our visit Saturday that we are approved! The rest is just crossing the t’s and dotting the few remaining i’s.
I can’t begin to tell you what a relief it was when our social worker spoke those three words to us, “you are approved.” I think I must’ve been feeling more stress about it than I thought because it felt like this HUGE weight had been lifted off of me. It feels so good.
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