Final Stages of Adoption

We finally have a date for our first interview with a Certified Investigator with DSS for completing our adoption home study. On Monday at 9am, we'll have our first interview. During this meeting only Jorge and I will meet with her. Later they will want to do a second interview and include the kids. We're so excited to be completing this final phase of approval. They can ask us anything and we're ready. It amazes me to think we may have a baby very soon. At the same time, we could be waiting for a while. I'm sure the hardest part will be the wait.

This week there was a story in the local news about a 17 year old girl and her 21 year old boyfriend who left their third child, yes 3rd child, in a diaper box after giving birth just 6 hours earlier at a fire station. They hoped someone would find it. A mother and daughter passing by saw the box and just then a firefighter came out for a smoke break and found the baby. Unbelievalbe! The teen mother was 14 when she had her first child. They said they just couldn't handle having another baby! I swear it broke my heart! I wanted to call DSS and say..."We'll take him! We'll take this innocent baby boy who deserves a home with people who will love him." It doesn't work that way.

Now today there has been the remains of a small child found not too far from the home of Casey Anthony in Florida. Could this be Caylee? If she has gone home to our Heavenly Father, I hope this is her and at least part of the mystery of what happened to her will be solved. I'm not concerened about who did it other than wanting justice for this beautiful little girl with the big bright eyes. I pray for her.

I've just never understood how someone who could hurt a child like this. Tonight I watched a little boy have a melt down at Jack in the Box. Apparantly he did not want his hamburger and wanted everyone else to eat at another table. His mother kept her cool and tried to calm him. When she couldn't she quickly wisked him outside trying to calm him sparing the rest of us from his cries. I felt sorry for her and hoped I would be as calm of a mother as my child will inevitably have the same sort of "melt down" at some point. Of course I could never do anything so crazy and hurt a child...but I struggle with how anyone else could. It boggles the mind.

I know God has the perfect child waiting for us. He will choose which child will be ours. I have FAITH! Keep us in your prayers that our interviews will go well and we will finally be officially waiting for our long awaited child.

Christmas Song Spin

Okay....y'all know how much I love music and singing. Well I found this on the web the other day and if you haven't seen it you'll enjoy watching. A great new spin on the holiday music that can drive us crazy once we have heard it a million times! The acapella group is called, Straight No Chaser. Very cool!

Here is a link for my new favorite Christmas song. It is titled, A Baby Changes Everything, from Faith Hill's new and first Christmas album. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2o1uxzI-hA

Once I heard this song it started to make me think how much our lives will change when we are finally blessed with a baby! I'm so excited I can't stand it!

Merry Christmas!

Adoption Update

Well...we have a fire marshall inspection on Monday. It should take all of 10 minutes for this one! Then we will wait for the Certified Investigator to complete the Home Study. It is all a waiting game at this point! Lots and lots of waiting! We are just living as normal, axiously waiting for a call that they have a baby for us. We will have to complete the home study first, but because we are willing to foster/adopt, we shouldn't have to wait too long. At least with the holidays on us, we will keep very busy during our wait. I've thought of volunteering at church for the nursery. It might curb my appetite for a baby, or backfire and make me even more anxious. I'm praying about it asking God for guidance.
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Today is Sunday and Jorge is out mowing the grass, fixing my flat tire and helping around the house. He's so great about doing these types of things. I'm cleaning the bath and the rest of the house. Pretty boring Sunday! I LOVE IT! I know once we adopt we will not be bored any longer! We always find something to do now. Seems like we are always running here and there. Jorge and I promised each other we would make Sunday our day of rest. Not much resting going on here! Jose is at work and Chris is at a friends house.

Jose is working lots of holiday hours! Can you beleive Christmas is just around the corner? Chris alreay has his Christmas gift. He wanted a new cell phone. A $330 cell phone! How many 15 year olds do you know that need a $330 cell phone? Not our idea! We chipped in a little money for it, but that's it! CRAZY!! Jose hasn't asked for much. He's always a little harder to buy for. We're excited about spending Christmas in our new home. Jorge and I both have off the whole week of Christmas and we're looking forward to it. We hope to go cut down a tree right after Thanksgiving.

That's all for now!