Still LOOKING...not WAITING

Ok, I'm going to try and come back to the blogging world. We have had a couple leads for our adoption but nothing has worked out so far. We had a seminar yesterday about how you should just sit around and "wait." You wouldn't sit around and "wait" for a job to find you if you were searching for a job would you? So we are not LOOKING.

First step was our FB page. Feel free to take a look!

Thanks, Liz

Dear Birthparent Letter

Well, we are currently just waiting! Here is a link to our adoption website. Happy 4th of July weekend everyone!

PAPER PREGNANT!!!!

It's official! We received our homestudy in the mail today, we can finally let people know! Our homestudy has been given to several counties in the area incase there are any infants. We signed up for the infant adoption program at our adoption agency. We are officially "waiting!"

Hurry up homestudy!!!

I wish there was more to update! It's been about 5 weeks since they've started writing our homestudy. It can take up to 8 weeks! We've completed all of our training and we continue to work on our nursery.

Here in MN it's supposed to be Spring but we woke up to snow on the ground. Seems like we can't get out of Winter and move onto Spring much like we can't move out of the homestudy process! Urg!

Make me a Great Grandpa

I have mentioned many times how lucky we are to have so many loving and supportive friends and family. This past weekend we attended a birthday party for my grandpa. He turns 87 on Thursday! WOW, 87 seems really old! Both DH and I are blessed to still have several grandparents living. The above tree shows how many grandparents and great-grandparents our baby will have.

My grandpa was asking us about how our adoption was going. With his beautiful baby blue eyes he said "Make me a great grandpa." If he only knew how much I hope and pray each day that my grandparents will live long enough for me to make them GREAT grandparents! He then proceeded to tell me how one of the ladies at the senior center has 40 great grandchildren. With me being the oldest grandchild and the only one who is married -I don't think he will reach that goal. However, I can just see him going around and sharing with everyone he knows when he finally becomes a GREAT grandpa.

I can't wait for the day when I get to personally call my grandpa and tell him he has become a GREAT grandpa. Whether you build your family in traditional or non-traditional ways everyone should be able to experience that feeling.

I love you grandpa!