Update time!

Hi Everyone,

I spoke with our case worker this morning and got a small update. Here's a review in case you haven't been kept up to speed.

Before this morning there were 4 birth moms (BM) that met OUR criteria. (Race of the baby is our only criteria, we've said Caucasian or bi-racial.) They are all due around the end of the summer.

This morning I was told that two of the BMs had a change of heart and have backed out. While this makes my heart sink, I couldn't help but think of their own hearts in making such a difficult decision. I'm going to pray that they made the right decision for their family and will love their little one the right way.

So now we have two BMs left that we qualify for. Our caseworker can't tell us very much but I do know that both BMs are due around the end of summer/beginning of fall. In both situations, BF (birth father) and families are supportive of the adoption.

With that small sad news, we found out both BMs have looked at our book already! PLEASE pray that their hearts would lead them to us. It is still too early to make a decision, they're receiving counseling to prepare them for that day. Maybe it's selfish of me, but even though there are families that have been waiting over two years, I want it to be our time! We started our process officially in December of 2010, so this December marks 2 years.

I think that the pending adoption has made me take a step back to look at our lives. I feel very blessed to have a husband that rocks, family that loves and supports us, and friends that I consider family. I know a lot of our lives will change when we do finally have our baby, but I'm excited for those changes :)

Thanks for reading and praying fervently!
T

The longest 4-6 weeks of our lives...

I spoke with my caseworker this morning and received an update on the birth moms with our agency.

What I learned is that there are now 6 moms currently with our agency. Of those 6, 4 meet our criteria. So in the next 4-6 weeks, our book will be shown to all 4 moms. Our book...along with 5-7 other family's books. (Long sigh inserted here)

The most encouraging piece, I believe, is that our caseworker (knowing the birth moms and us) is optimistic that of these 4 women, we will have a match!!

So, I am asking again for your prayers. I've been seeking patience and peace through this, along with that I've asked God in my prayers for movement. Something, anything! Well, we have movement :)

-Tera

Merry Christmas!

I hope this Christmas was one spent with loved ones and making memories. We got to do just that, here are a couple pictures.



Christmas Eve at Moms.



Disneys very merry Christmas



At the haunted mansion.



Two of my favorite people, gramma and grampa. Look at Grampas shirt, he cracks me up!

And last for your viewing pleasure, and mine since I just found this today and Scotty caught this beauty on "film" Taylor enjoying Scotty's gift to himself, the kinect.

I had posted a Haiti blog but my blog app swallowed it up, I hope I can find it!

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Anderson

This past weekend we went back to our alma mater for homecoming. This time of year Indiana is beautiful, leaves are changing, crisp temperatures. It had rained all week, but held off for our trip.
Earlier that week my best friend celebrated her birthday and got engaged so the timing was perfect!
We went to the street fair, cheap thrills (a comedy show the school puts on), visited some of our favorite places (one of which is a gas station-don't judge me), took engagement photos for the newly engaged couple, and got to catch up with all my college roommates and Scotty's too.

Here are some photos from our trip...



At the street fair


Look at that bling!


The girls together again



Scotty and his "boyfriend" Eric




Some quality planking



Pray for us this week as we leave tomorrow morning for Haiti, I don't know if I'll be able to blog but I will post when we get back.

Tera
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Home study #1....check!

Last night was our first home study visit. I was SO nervous, I got home early so I'd have time to clean up, as if our HOURS of cleaning the night before wasn't enough! Before they arrived I had the stuff for brownies, sugar cookies, and cream cheese dip all out trying to decide. Of course Scotty was finishing his "HW" last minute so I was left to stress over "to feed, or not to feed?".

I chose peanut butter pretzels in case you're interested, they were a hit.

We spent a lot of time talking about our families, our relationship, and how we arrived at our decision to adopt. Both of the ladies who came were so sweet and kind, especially with my unique family situation, compared to Scotty I sounded like a Dr. Phil guest! (Not in a bad way. My family is all incredible!! I just have A LOT, and the way they're connected to me requires a detailed explanation)

We talked about what we want in a child, age, race, how many!!! That thought never crossed my mind! She said sibling groups and I think I choked on a pretzel, lol. So we are looking for baby under a year old, either boy or girl, Caucasian or Hispanic.

We ended the night talking about E-mealzcouponing, and toilet paper. I emailed our social worker today about some things and told her that by the time they left I felt like they were friends visiting!

We also found out that they set their fees on a sliding scale based on your income and we are going to be paying A LOT less than what we were anticipating! YAY GOD!

Our agency works with the state too but I think our meeting helped solidify that we are going in the right direction.

Love to all! T & S


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