Waiting to Adopt Check-in 09/10

jillianmb

This is a place for anyone in the waiting-to-adopt phase to check in.  Lurkers welcome! Whether you're still checking out different agencies and programs or you're bringing your child home tomorrow, this is for you! 

1) What kind of adoption/fostering are you doing? Ages? 

2) In what phase of the process are you? 

3) Any recent accomplishments or milestones to celebrate?

4) How are you feeling this week?

5) QOTW: Share your favorite adoption quote or poem.

jillianmb

1) What kind of adoption/fostering are you doing? Ages? International / Russia / 2 yo boy

2) In what phase of the process are you?  Preparing for our second of three trips (and our court date!) in early October

3) Any recent accomplishments or milestones to celebrate? Mostly just more paperwork and waiting this week, but every day is one date closer to our court date and that feels great (and a little bit terrifying).  :-)

4) How are you feeling this week? So, so, so ready to get our court hearing done and breathe that deep happy breath of relief.  And then of course let myself get excited about bringing him home!

5) QOTW: Share your favorite adoption quote or poem.  I don't have any super profound ones (which is why I asked!) but I do like Oprah Winfrey's quote, "Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother." 

Misha08

1) What kind of adoption/fostering are you doing? Ages?

Domestic Infant Adoption

2) In what phase of the process are you?

Officially Waiting to be matched!!

3) Any recent accomplishments or milestones to celebrate?

Bought & set up the crib.

4) How are you feeling this week?

Pretty good. Keeping busy by slowly putting the nursery together!

5) QOTW: Share your favorite adoption quote or poem.

Not flesh of my flesh, Nor bone of my bone,
But still miraculously my own.
Never forget for a single minute,
You didn't grow under my heart - but in it
--- Fleur Conkling Heylinger

bumpuser794640

1) What kind of adoption/fostering are you doing? Ages? : We are pursuing domestic infant adoption

2) In what phase of the process are you?  : We are saving money, planning to submit our application to the agency in January!

3) Any recent accomplishments or milestones to celebrate?: Not really

4) How are you feeling this week?: Lately I've been feeling a little impatient and jealous of those who already have their LOs or are pregnant, but I keep reminding myself that God will bring us OUR baby in the right time.

5) QOTW: Share your favorite adoption quote or poem.: This isn't strictly adoption-related, but it's my favorite passage relating to our IF/Adoption:

 He settles the childless woman in her home
    as a happy mother of children. - Psalm 113:9

 

christineandaaron

jillianmb:

This is a place for anyone in the waiting-to-adopt phase to check in.  Lurkers welcome! Whether you're still checking out different agencies and programs or you're bringing your child home tomorrow, this is for you! 

1) What kind of adoption/fostering are you doing? Ages? 

First of all I apologize for being MIA lately. Work and home life have been super busy! Anyways, we are domestic infant adoption.

2) In what phase of the process are you?  Matched with birthparents. Baby girl due January 2013

3) Any recent accomplishments or milestones to celebrate?

Great conversations/visits with birthparents and making several baby purchases.

4) How are you feeling this week? Less anxious than a few weeks ago!

5) QOTW: Share your favorite adoption quote or poem.

I like the not flesh of my flesh quote!

jillianmb

GnomeSweetGnome:

5) QOTW: Share your favorite adoption quote or poem.: This isn't strictly adoption-related, but it's my favorite passage relating to our IF/Adoption:

 He settles the childless woman in her home
    as a happy mother of children. - Psalm 113:9

 

Love that! 

DaisyZH

1) What kind of adoption/fostering are you doing? Ages?

Foster-to-adopt, 0-3 or so

2) In what phase of the process are you?

Reading, researching, building our savings up, we have a mental "start date" of June 2013 when DS turns 2 but we're starting to think about moving that up.
3) Any recent accomplishments or milestones to celebrate?

I read "Three Little Words" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter.  It's a first person book written by a former foster child that was adopted as a pre-teen.  I highly recommend, it's pretty disturbing though but it really opens your eyes to the abuse that some kids go through at home and unfortunately sometimes in foster care.

4) How are you feeling this week?

Not adoption related, but not great I have some kind of bug and I think DS has it too

5) QOTW: Share your favorite adoption quote or poem.

I promise you kid I'll give so much more than I get, I just haven't met you yet - totally cliche I know it's from the Michael Buble song but I always listen to the Smash version with Nick Jonas

crene84

1) What kind of adoption/fostering are you doing? Ages? Domestic Infant

2) In what phase of the process are you?  Matched, waiting for the BM to go into labor any day now!

3) Any recent accomplishments or milestones to celebrate? Nothing new since last week.

4) How are you feeling this week? I am feeling incredibly anxious and manic.  I can't stand not knowing when BM is going to call us, I think about where we'll be, what we'll be in the middle of.  It's just so crazy.  And I'm also very frustrated that BF still hasn't gotten us his address so my attorney can finish his consent paperwork.

jmoka7

1) What kind of adoption/fostering are you doing? Ages? Foster to adopt ages 2 months to 9 years old 2) In what phase of the process are you?  Waiting for my first long term placement 3) Any recent accomplishments or milestones to celebrate?I did my first respite care this past weekend for two little boys age 3 and 4 4) How are you feeling this week?I'm not really feeling anything. I'm getting a lot better at being patient.  

5) QOTW: Share your favorite adoption quote or poem. 

I'm not sure if it's a quote, but I love the saying on the t-shirt I saw on this board, "Superman was adopted" 

IRR

1) What kind of adoption/fostering are you doing? Ages?

Domestic infant adoption

2) In what phase of the process are you?  Birthmom is due mid-december

3) Any recent accomplishments or milestones to celebrate? Not sure this is an accomplishment but our BM basically "fired" our lawyer.  We had to find a new "local" one for her to talk to because she and BF have decided that do not trust the lawyer that they originally contacted.  It's was an interesting week and although I fully support the BP (our lawyer was a complete ditz on some things) I hope there are no issues with the new one we provided them with.

4) How are you feeling this week? Starting to get excited.  Less than 100 days until we get to meet our LO.

5) QOTW: Share your favorite adoption quote or poem.

Adoption comes from the heart, but the adoption process comes from the Law.
You should follow your heart, but be sure you also follow the law.
-- Irina O'Rear

Blsd4given

1) What kind of adoption/fostering are you doing? Ages?

Foster-to-Adopt... Or Adoption from Foster Care ...  0-6yrs

2) In what phase of the process are you?  

Just waiting for a backup at the state to resolve to receive our background checks.  Waiting for two reference letters. 

3) Any recent accomplishments or milestones to celebrate? 

 Passed our homestudy last week... 

4) How are you feeling this week?

Pretty mellow about the whole thing...  

5) QOTW: Share your favorite adoption quote or poem.

Don't have one.... yet....

ellekae

1) What kind of adoption/fostering are you doing? Ages? 
DIA

2) In what phase of the process are you? 
Documentation (before home study)

3) Any recent accomplishments or milestones to celebrate?
Got both of our Childline clearances back last week... One more thing to check off the giant list.

4) How are you feeling this week?
Nervous about finances... big fundraising stuff happening in 3 weeks! Yikes.

5) QOTW: Share your favorite adoption quote or poem.
"Family is not about blood. It's about who is willing to hold your hand when you need it the most." -Unknown

Ginger71

jillianmb:

This is a place for anyone in the waiting-to-adopt phase to check in.  Lurkers welcome! Whether you're still checking out different agencies and programs or you're bringing your child home tomorrow, this is for you! 

1) What kind of adoption/fostering are you doing? Ages?  Domestic infant

2) In what phase of the process are you? waiting.....

3) Any recent accomplishments or milestones to celebrate? does calling the agency for a third month in a row and being told our profile still hasn't even been shown count ?

4) How are you feeling this week? Disappointed. The post about adoption rates dropping has me a little worried

5) QOTW: Share your favorite adoption quote or poem. Adoption is love in action-someone on this board said it in a post. I wish I remembered who to give credit to them...I thought it was beautiful.

srmmm09

u doing? Ages? 

IA from Uganda; younger than DS. 

2) In what phase of the process are you? 

Waiting for our 171. Today! I beeelieeeve! 

3) Any recent accomplishments or milestones to celebrate?

Not really. I've been doing well at applying to different grants - about 1 every other week. 

4) How are you feeling this week?

Anxiously awaiting our 171! Though, honestly, it will still be a big shock when we actually get it. I think we'll be in country before this adoption becomes real to me! 

5) QOTW: Share your favorite adoption quote or poem.

Ephesians 1:3-6 "Praise be to the God and Father of out Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. Fore he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted ad his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will -- to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.

JellyTwoPointO

1) What kind of adoption/fostering are you doing? Ages? 

foster to adopt, hopefully siblings of the same gender, accepting ages 0-4

2) In what phase of the process are you? 

getting ready for the first orientation/initial paperwork

3) Any recent accomplishments or milestones to celebrate?

we finally got contact with a DCS social worker and the first step is going to an orientation meeting, which is where they hand out the initial paperwork and that is set for October 10th!

4) How are you feeling this week?

VERY anxious to get the process started....

5) QOTW: Share your favorite adoption quote or poem.

"lighthouses don't run around looking for boats to save -- they just stand there shining." -- anne lamott