I know I am doing a really horrible job on keeping everyone updated. That has kind of been on purpose though. After my last blog we went to our ADOPT Parenting class and we learned that it is our child's story to tell so I am sparing details and when our baby gets old enough he or she can tell their story to who ever they want to. I really enjoyed our weekedn in North Platte NE. It was a long drive but we got to meet some great people going through the same thing. The ADOPT parenting classes got me really excited about choosing and open adoption. To be honest, before the class I was agreeing with it just because I knew it would be easier to adopt through open adoption. But after hearing from birth mothers and their relationships and the adoptive parents. I found out you can really build friendships and life long relationships through adoption. Its like not only are we getting a baby but we also get some extended family here in Nebraska. It would be like a aunt uncle relationship to our child. I have focused my prayers to allow God to not only give us the baby he sees that will fit in our family but also to bless us with a birth mother who will be willing to have a family relationship with us. Like any new found relationship it will not be easy no relationship is. They all take work if you want them to last but at least our son or daughter will have the chance to get all his or hers questions asked by us and his or hers birth family. Right after we got home from the ADOPT classes David and I took the time over the weekend and prayed about it and we both agreed we were ready to move forward and we finally start our home study process August 6th! That in itself will not be an easy road but we are finally moving forward with our family growing! The LORD is good all the time!
