OK so I'm a little scared at this whole blogging thing but I figure it will ease some of the frustration through the dreaded waiting time. So i guess I'm going to start with how this all began.
Sometime in April 2010 I had reached my peak of frustration of seeing everyone around me getting pregnant from my mother-in-law having 5 year old twins running around, my sister-in-law announcing she was expecting, to EVERYONE that I went to high school with posting up sonogram pictures on facebook,hell I even started getting mad that my friends dog got pregnant and I was still barren, no bun in the oven, NOT eating for two! So after a few days and crying and getting angry with God it hit me, or I should say say God shook me a few good times and put some sense in to me. This was all in his plans!!! I was made this way for a very good reason.... for the sole purpose of welcoming a child into my life that needed love and a family to call their own and for me to understand my own journey of being adopted as a child. So my husband and I made that decision to adopt that day. To be honest we did little research on any agencies, we just knew we wanted to adopt from Colombia (where my husband is from). And we thought it would be as easy as 1,2,3.
1. get on a plane to Colombia
2. find an orphanage
3. choose a baby,sign paper work, and walk out forever parents!
Now that I look back on all of this I feel so silly. Anyway we quickly found out with a few phone calls to Colombia that was definitely not the way it goes. We were then referred to an agency in Hollywood Florida call Adoption by Shepherds Care who did Colombian adoptions. So we called and made an appointment and about a week later we had began the paper chase! Fast forward to today February 19, 2011 all paper work, finger prints, background checks, psychologist reports , checks written, and dossier stamped for approval done! YEAH!!!! and now the hard part "the wait" , I would have to say this is the hardest part of the adoption process.
Waiting to see what your child will look like, wondering if its going to be a boy or girl, wondering how your child will be, wondering how to decorate their new room, wondering when that phone call will come with the voice on the other end saying " We have your referral," wondering what that glorious day will be like when you are handed your child for the first time. Oh I could go on forever about the this but I would feel like I'm discouraging anyone else who will read this and thinking about adoption. But I will say after all that crazy wondering the reward will be well worth it all!
So I'm done for tonight I just wanted to introduce myself. I think I'm really going to love this whole blogging thing!
