Paperwork!

So, when we started this adoption process, I really never thought today would come.  But here we are doing paperwork again.  Today I visited our local Fed Ex office and sent off the first of many documents. YEAH!  Trust me, I am completely fine with the paperwork. 

1 - It gives me something to do...being proactive, that is!

2 - I get to make friends with a new Fed Ex guy (he wasn't there 1 1/2 years ago)!!!

3 - I am optimistic that this will be the final time I must assemble and submit all the paperwork!

4 - It means that we are that much closer to our referral!

On another note of firsts, I have read many blogs where the adoptive parents were in "the window" of getting their referral and they write about being anxious every time the phone rang.  I have never experienced that...until TODAY!  We are still about a month away from the average wait time for a referral, but wouldn't you know that everytime the phone rang today, I got butterflies.  So, if this referral doesn't come soon, I am afraid that I will have all kinds of stomach ailments and the such!  Oy, I am ready to see that kiddos face!!!

Here We Go Again!

So, this is my second attempt at starting a blog to chronicle this whole adoption process.  Why the second attempt you ask.  Let me tell ya...I have lost my password to the first, can't recover due to cookies and my email (can you tell I am a little computer "unsavvy?"), and truth be told, I really didn't like the look of the first one.  So, I decided to design a new blog and start fresh.  To be honest, I hate writing.  But, for my sweet children, I am attempting this thing again, determined more than ever that I am going to succeed and be diligent in keeping up with the "goings on" around here. 

As of today, we have been on the adoption waitlist for 14 1/2 months.  To say we are getting antsy is a complete understatement.  We seemed to stay pretty busy this summer so time really did fly by.  Now, however, that the girls are in school, I am by myself most of the day, waiting for the phone to ring, hoping and praying that we will receive our referral and see our baby boys face so soon. 

God has thrown us a few curve balls through this process but we have learned so much and are so trusting that it is His timing we want, knowing that it is perfect!!!  Now that I finally have this blog up, maybe the referral call will come tomorrow!  You never know...