Our Adoption "Ticker"

Just a brief note about our adoption ticker to the right. You'll notice it has been changed to the amount of time we have been waiting with our current agency, not our overall wait time. We wanted to be able to keep track of how long it's been with this agency, because if we set it for our overall wait time, it would be 11 months today!

This may seem silly, but it's a little bit more encouraging to me to remember that it hasn't been that long with our current agency. So, I'm mostly doing this for my own encouragement more than anything else! ;) Please keep praying!

This is a brief timeline of our adoption:

March 2008 - God leads us to attend "Considering Adoption" class at church

April 2008 - God completely changes my heart about adoption and Scott and I move forward!

May 2008 - We choose our first agency and send in pre-application approval form. Began home study.

June 2008 - We're pre-approved with agency and begin work on 60 page application! Finish home study. Send in initial payment.

August 2008 - Receive full-approval from agency board. Make reservations to attend orientation in October.

October 2008 - Attend orientation at agency. Competely horrified to learn about policies within the agency that we cannot live with. Choose to withdraw application and go home.

Mid-October 2008 - Heartbroken over failed attempt with first agency, we receive a call from our home study agency that a local agency, Adoption Bridges of KY, needs profiles to show to specific demographics of birthmoms. We want to move forward, but we know that we cannot afford their fees. We pray about what we should do and . . .

God totally blows us AWAY with His complete faithfulness. We learn that a very substantial amount of money is anonymously donated to our adoption fund. And the next day, we learn that we are approved for the matching grant we had been praying for.

We cry. :o)

And praise God for what He has done!!!!

November 2008 - Our family profile is in circulation at ABOK. We attend orientation there and are certified as foster parents so that we can adopt in KY. (Not the same thing as foster-to-adopt, but we will be foster parents for the first 30-60 days of our child's life.)

Begin our monthly training sessions/support groups with the agency.

February 2009 - Take Infant CPR class as a part of training.

March 2009 - The wait continues!