We received an exciting email yesterday from our adoption agency that we are 2-3 months away from going active. This means that hopefully in May we will be fully active with our agency – meaning that our profile book can start being shared with birth moms.
While this is an exciting update, we definitely thought we had a few more months and wouldn’t be active until June/July. Thankfully we’ve already gotten our home study application and are working on that, and we have a meeting set up with the company who will be creating our profile book.
The next thing that gets tricky is deciding how we want to furnish a nursery. I’ve talked about this with the few friends and family who know we are adopting – We want pictures of our nursery in our profile book, which means we need to paint the room, purchase furniture, and begin setting up that space! I love interior design, so this is going to be a ton of fun. Hopefully everything gets in by the time we need it to!
Our next step is sharing more broadly with our support systems about our adoption process. We’ve told most of our family and some of our friends, but we haven’t openly shared out with friends and the world that we are adopting. Most of the folks we’ve talked to in our adoption community have shared broadly with their communities that they are adopting – either because they are fundraising or they just want the support of family and friends. While we won’t be fundraising, it would be nice to have that support as we move through the next year!
More to come in March 1st when we get our next update. Until next time!
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