Celebration

Tomorrow we will mail off 90% of our paperwork, and I am just thrilled! This paperwork includes our formal application packet that has every possible piece of information about us on it along with a few other random things we had to sign off on. This also includes the 33 question autobiographies that we have been working on for a month! I cannot explain just how excited we are to have this one completed! Whoo hooo! With this packet we also send in $300 dollars which is the last cheap payment we will make in this process. Once they have all of this, they will schedule our home study. The day of the home study we will write a check for about $1500 and the waiting shall begin.
We have our letter to the birthmom written up and will have copies ready to be shown after the home study. My next mission from there will be creating a scrapbook of our lives. This scrapbook will go to the birth mother who chooses to place her child with us. It will be a momento for her. It took me forever to get pictures together to go on the back of our letter to the birth mom, so I know this scrapbook will be quite a project. I have a friend that is going to help me, but it will take so long to organize my pictures and decide what all I want to put in it! The fun just never ends=)
Continue praying for our future birth mother that she will have strength, wisdom, and confidence in herself and her decision to place her baby with a family. Pray for patience as Brian and I wait on the right time. Something I learned in Bible Study this week.......God is not always going to lay it all out in front of us (where would the faith be then?). He will tell us to take one step, then another, then another. He is walking WITH us and not in front of us! What an encouragement during this time.
Step 1. Send off paperwork