Life has certainly not slowed down for us. We are filling out our home study packets and have signed a contract & paid for the company who will be making our profile book. We also ordered all of the furniture for the room that will be the nursery so that it can be photographed in our profile book.
This month we saw some movement – we moved from number 26 to number 24 on the wait list. This may not seem like a lot, but any movement is still movement. It’s exciting to see that number become lower as we move closer to being an active family.
I had lunch with a friend today; I shared our adoption journey so far with her. She had so many questions and we had a great chat. It made me realize that folks don’t know a lot about adoption – I’m not sure why adoption isn’t talked about. It’s not as though adoption is rare – 1 in every 25 families with children have an adopted child.
I find that sharing information about adoption is really powerful. Especially because, as I’ve talked about in the past, there is a fair amount of issue out there with unethical adoption/processes. This is why we did so much research when we chose an adoption agency. I hope that us sharing our story with adoption and being very open will help provide information to any of our friends considering adopting!
There isn’t too much to update in at this time. As I wrote at the beginning of this post, we bought furniture and are waiting for it to come in. We both hope that that room will become a really peaceful space for us as we go through the next year or so.
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