Ethiopia

Even though we are adopting domestic vs international…there is not a day that goes by that Ethiopia is not on my heart. My heart is constantly stirring over the need there is to give those orphans homes. Ethiopia is such a wonderful place with beautiful people. I know it will never be lifted off my heart until we adopt from there. I know everything happens for a reason and I really do feel the timing wasn’t right for us, but it’s still a struggle when your eyes are open to something so devastating. There are days I feel guilty. I feel we turned our backs on those children. We tried that process several times and every time we would start something would come up…so we took that as a sign. Maybe God knew we weren’t quite ready for it…He knows what we can handle :) However, we know “orphans are orphans” no matter where they are and we are so excited to bring out little one home.

It’s funny how much everything has changed since we started talking about adoption. We 100% were adopting from Ethiopia. We had no interest in domestic. Too many risks we thought. We didn’t want the birth mom to change her mind. Well, here we are…so excited to be matched with a birth mom. Sometimes we have to put aside what we “want” for what we are called to do :)

Have a great weekend....

Tasha

Waiting

So even though our social worker just received our profile books and hasn't had a chance to even distribute them to agencies around the country I can't help, but keep my phone close! Even though it's not even possible for us to be matched quite yet :) I so hope we get matched soon! While we wait we have been super busy...in the past couple weeks we have met with 3 landscaping clients, I have been designing a home for a private individual, we have both been working a ton of o.t., my mom and I painted the nursery, we're still working on new trim and chair rail for nursery, and we still have to clean carpets and build our addition! So...we are busy...but that's a good thing. Takes my mind off the wait! We would love to have a summer baby so we can enjoy exploring and a few little getaways with him/her!!

Fun fact: 60% of people have some sort of relationship with adoption. Whether they are adopted, have adopted, know somebody who is adopted, etc...how cool is that?!

Seems like everybody we have told lately that we are adopting has had a story of their own! The family we bought our rocking chair/ottoman from has a daughter that adopted a little girl from China and is working on her second adoption! Small world :)

Time to get back to the "To Do" list...I'm having writers block about blogging topics...I love reading other blogs, but feel like until things start getting exciting there's not much to say, but I will keep you all posted with any news! :)

Have a great weekend...

Tasha

A couple steps closer...

So, while we had our 3rd and final home study a few weeks ago…we were just informed our social worker has completed writing it up!! So, basically it’s finalized and officially done! :)

Also, we have put the finishing touches on our profile book! Now, all we have to do is print and send 15-20 copies to our social worker so she can distribute them to agencies for the birth mothers to look at! Basically, this is a book that tells “our story” to birth mothers…really all they have to go off of when picking a family. It took a lot of work and is a bit nerve-racking as it’s all that represents us to them!

Once we get those printed and shipped all we have to do is WAIT! Which, many say, is the hardest part…although I feel it’s a huge relief to have it out of our hands…whatever happens, happens! It’s all in God’s hands and up to the birth mothers to choose us :)

We are SO excited and anxious! We can’t wait to be matched!!

Other than wrapping up the adoption paperwork we have been very busy! We pretty much have everything bought for the nursery (thanks to my wonderful parents for helping with that!) we still have to paint and do a few updates to the room! On top of that…we are hoping to add a little addition onto our house and we have some landscaping jobs (about 5!) already lined up for spring/summer!!! Needless to say we are busy…however, I think it’s a blessing in disguise as it should help time move a little faster while we wait!

Many of you have asked what you can get for our little one…we do plan to have a baby shower once we bring our baby home! There are so many variables that we figured that's our safest bet...we have all the basics to start out :)

Until my next post…

Tasha

Our little trip!

After work today we are heading out to Medora to spend the night and Saturday morning we are heading to Billings for our friends' wedding! It will be nice to getaway for a few days after all the busy weeks we've had. Collecting paperwork, fingerprints, physicals, creating our profile book, working o.t. at work, etc.....to say the least...we are ready!!

It's fun to think this could be one of our last getaways...just us! We have been told by our social worker to stick close to home and not make any plans from here on out just in case we are matched with a birthmother and have to travel right away! That was music to our ears! We are more than happy to put everything else on hold :) Our profile books haven't been distributed yet, so we are safe for about another week...then it's all up in the air...love it!!

Hope you all have a great weekend! Again, thanks for all the encouraging words, phone calls, etc...we have received!! We are so excited!

Until my next post...

Tasha