*I apologize for my lack of posting lately. As you all know, this is an incredibly busy time of year. I promise I will try to do better.*
"When do you expect to be matched?" "When should your fingerprints come back?" "When should you travel to pick up the baby?" I have become accustomed to hearing the barrage of questions that come as soon as we tell someone we are adopting, because these are normal. These are things friends and family are curious about. Unfortunately, these are things that I don't know the answers to.
Adoption comes with a great deal of unpredictability and waiting. It forces you to be flexible and patient in the face of a great deal of stress and busyness. There are countless questionnaires to be filled out, official documents to gather, fingerprints to be done and sent, and references to contact. There are meetings to attend, required readings to complete, and home safety recommendations (that aren't recommendations). Prospective adoptive parents must go through this marathon of sorts just to wait and see if you will even be approved by your agency.
Why do we do this? Why do we endure? We stand strong because there is a child out there God has selected for us. There is a child out there waiting for us. We will do what needs to be done to make sure we get that child. We will wait as long as it takes to find that child.
So... for now, we have completed our first homestudy meeting (of 3), turned in all of our documents/paperwork, and sent off our fingerprints. For now... we wait.
