It's been about a month since I announced we are adopting again and I figured I should give you an update, although there's not really much to update. We are still chipping away at our home study. We were supposed to have our second visit with our adoption worker yesterday, but she got pulled into a meeting last minute and had to reschedule. Unfortunately our rescheduled meeting is 20 days away. I was feeling pretty bummed about this for a while, but then I remembered that it's all in God's timing.
We have both had our physicals and blood work, then we need to make another appointment with our doctor to get the results of that. Our criminal record checks are on the way. I'm working on putting together a profile of our family. For Avi's adoption we had to do a photo book, which is so beautiful and very special to us, but it took a lot of work. This time, it's all supposed to be done on a Word document with pictures added in at the end, so it should be much simpler. We have finished our online training and we attended a 7 hour review of the training last Saturday in Saskatoon. It was so nice to meet other couples going through the same process and we left feeling educated, refreshed and excited!
John and I have both marveled at the absolute peace we have felt during this adoption process so far. Especially for me, this is a big deal but I can honestly saying that I am enjoying every single part of it. I didn't realize how much I missed adopting! We were so burnt out after Avi's adoption and we knew we didn't want to pursue that route again and I think if we were doing that kind of adoption again, I wouldn't be enjoying it as much but this process is so different in so many ways and it feels like a breath of fresh air and I am just having so much FUN. I wasn't expecting to feel this way so I'm pleasantly surprised! We aren't even feeling super anxious to get it over with, although of course we are so excited to meet kid #3 (that's how we refer to him/her in our prayers). There are so many unknowns with this adoption. We don't know what age he/she will be, so it's hard to prepare ahead of time for that. It's very likely that they will be a different race then us and we are already talking about how to possibly prepare for that. We have access to the Adoption Support Centre library and I know we will be taking advantage of that. This child will come from a traumatic background, something that our girls never had. The online training and the course last weekend has been so helpful in arming us with strategies, tools, and skills to help in these situations. Of course, every child is different and until we actually meet them, we won't know what we are getting ourselves into.
This should make me very afraid and anxious, but I don't feel that way at all, not even a little bit, and I know that peace and calmness is coming straight from my Father. We are also so incredibly thankful for every one of your prayers. And I gotta say, to be able to just ask for prayers and not money is such a relief! Thank you for caring, for being excited for us, and for praying. I'll continue to update as we go along!
