Approved!

Hey everyone,

So as most of you saw I  made a short post that our home study was approved!!! I didn’t blog because I didn’t have much to say besides that. We were waiting to get more info on what happens next

I am happy to say that our home study was sent to the adoption coordinator. We received an email from her yesterday! I can’t tell you how relieved and excited we were. Especially me. This past week I wasn’t sleeping good. I would get off work and it would take me an extra hour or two than normal to go to sleep and then have to go back to work. I was very anxious for some reason.

Anyways, we are super excited to officially know we are moving forward. Now that we are on the email list here is how it will work.

Any referral the coordinator receives, she sends out to everyone on the email list. Any family looking to adopt is on the list. So we will be getting lots of emails. Most of them won’t apply to us. We are looking for newborn-5/6yrs old. We already got 6 emails but most were sibling groups of three or four kids or teenagers.

Once we get an email of kid we are interested in we let the coordinator know. She would then send our home study to the child’s case worker and we would wait and see if we get picked to visit with the child. We might not be the only family interested in the kid so just because we are interested doesn’t mean we will get picked.

Still lots that has to happen before we adopt but it seems a lot more realistic now. We could get an email tomorrow of a kid we are interested in or it could be months down the road. Here is to more waiting. You would think by the end of this we will be the most patient people lol

Keep those prayers coming. Nick and I talked about looking at all these emails. When you open the email it says something like sibling group of 4 or teenage girl in the subject line. You then have to open the attached file to see any photos or more info about them. We decided based on the subject line, if it does not pertain to our age range we are not going to open the attached files at this time. We think that would be too hard seeing all these sweet kiddos and reading about them knowing it would be a no anyways. I think that would break my heart.

So pray for us as we determine what emails to open and for our hearts as we start this process.

Pray for all the kids out there needing homes.

Pray we continue to seek the Lord and his plan and not our own when it comes to making decisions. I hope we both will stay on the same page and will just know when we see our kid. But it is also possible one of us could say hey that’s the one and the other not feel the same. Pray we continue to communicate well and be respectful of each other.

Again, thank you for following along and being on this crazy ride with us. We feel your prayers and love. It is more appreciated than y’all will ever know. Stay tuned, the best is yet to come!

~Nick and Brittany~