Adoption Journey Update

Wow, finding an agency to go with is harder than I thought.  I'm not sure if I've mentioned this yet or not, but we finally decided that we are going to adopt out of the foster care system as opposed to domestic infant adoption at this point. As much as I want a teeny tiny baby (which possibly could still happen), I even more so just want to be a parent to whatever child God has out there for us.

Well, we thought we had found an agency that we wanted to go through, but both Cody and I started having some off feelings about them. We are going through an adoption support type program called Project 1.27 (http://project127.com/), which does a lot of what agencies do, but not the home study and actual placement. When we went to the orientation we brought up our concerns about the agency with one of the social workers that was there, and she, along with another family that overheard our conversation and has some experience with said agency, basically confirmed our feelings, so we decided that we need to look for someone else.  At least we know what our first speed bump is going to be. We have a list of a few agencies that partner with Project 1.27, so we are definitely going to look into them. One was on our original list of who to look at when we were looking into domestic infant adoption, but they had a 2 year wait list for that, so we didn't really even consider them, but with foster/adopt they don't have that same issue.

We have a few classes that we need to take this upcoming month, and this month is already a super busy one for Cody with work and some special youth group events, including a 4 day camping trip that he has headed up. Please pray that this month would not be too overwhelming for him and that he would somehow come out of it feeling rested and refreshed.

We are currently starting our mountain of paper work, which I actually find kind of fun (call me crazy, lol), so at least we have the ball rolling!!  Please pray that we would get everything done in a timely fashion, and that God would give us a clear sign/feeling about which agency we should choose.  Thanks!!