Finally

Well it has been quite a while since I have blogged about the adoption but I just wanted to update everyone on the status. Well, we finally completed our adoption classes......YAY!! We have finally recieved certificates of completion for the adoption 101 class. We have learned a lot through the classes and feel that we are educated on adoption and on how to raise kids who are adopted. I feel like the information that we learned has helped us better understand children and why they behave the way that they do and even adults for that matter.

Now comes the hard part.... the waiting. I recieved an email today from the adoption specialist and our file in ready to be submitted for our home study pending one more document. Let me just say that I have never had to fill out so much paper work and turn in so many documents for anything than I have for this. It was way more than I had to fill out when I purchased my home and purchased my first car. We somehow managed to get it all done though.

Now is when the process gets slow. After our file is submitted for our home study we will wait to recieve a phone call from the agency that handles the home study. We will then make an appointment to have our home study done and wait until this is done. This takes a week or so once the file is submitted to the agency. Then we wait for approval of the home study. Once we have an approved home study we can submit our home study to any agencies that we are interested in and then we wait. I have heard from many that this is the hardest part of adoption, but Eddie and I are confident in God's timing. He knows what child we are going to adopt and when we are going to be able to adopt the child. It could be a month from now or a year from now. All we have to do is wait for the call.....How exciting!!! We can not wait for that day:)

For now, we are focuing on our relationship with Jesus. We are going through a study at church titled Not A Fan and it is really challenging us to take our relationship with Jesus to the next level. We are very excited about this. We are ready to do that as a couple to prepare the way for the child that God is going to bless us with. We are focusing on that right now and praying for the little one that Jesus has for us. We pray for our baby daily. We pray that God be with he or she and their family and that he prepare us for his or her arrival. God is doing some amazing things in us right now. We are growing spritually and are so excited to see the changes that God is making in our lives. However in some instances this had been difficult. We have learned through the Not A Fan Series that there comes a time when you have to put your foot down and stand up for what you believe it. We are doing this but it isn't easy. But Jesus never said it would be easy to be a follower. He said that we must take up our cross daily to follow him. This means following him with all that we have but We want to be sure that when the day comes when Jesus comes back that we are with the followers and not the fans and we want to be sure that we raise our child up as a follower of Jesus and not just a fan.