Update on the adoption process

Its been a while since I have blogged, mainly because our computer has been down the last few weeks. So I haven't had internet access except through my phone.

As you know from my last blog we submitted our application packet. Since then I have gotten a call from Nebraska Children's Home and they finally accepted our packet!!! YAY! We are scheduled for out intake interview on May 7th at 3:00. The thought of it being called and interview is kind of scary but its not an interview where we can be accepted or denied like our first agency we went through. This is just mainly learning how the process works and is an answer and question time for David and I and so the agency can get to know us on a more personal level too. Super Exciting! Then sometime in June we will be attending the A.D.O.P.T classes which is held on a Thursday and Friday all day long. I don't have details when or what that is about but I will find out more during the Intake Interview. If things go smoothly from here then we should be on the list for birth mothers to choose from by the end of the year, I just want to thank everyone for you prayers they are much much needed and appreciated. Thanks for reading. I will keep you posted

Bekah

A little how I feel

I have had a rough week mainly emotionally. I have really been missing home and living near my parents. I also have been feeling like I am seeing everyone around get blessed and been feeling like my prayers have been ignored, Which is completely crazy I know but we all feel that way sometime if we are truly honest with ourselves. Even the best Christian out there feels that way from time to time.

But with dealing  with infertility for the past 6 years and hitting every road block imaginable with the adoption I was starting to feel really down on myself. With the first agency denying us because we didn't have children already and the new agency sending our packet back to us wanting the entire credit report not just the summary and questioning why David was only in the military for 6 months. Then David getting flat out denied life insurance because his cholestrol was too low of all things. It just seemed that everything was going wrong. I am really starting to feel frustrated about it all. I was talking to a coworker about it and she said her father sells life insurance and so she gave us his number and he contacted us and he is able to get David life insurance for double what we needed without a Medical Exam! Wow! is the LORD Amazing or what?!

So we are sending out the adoption packet out again in the morning and pray that this will be the final time it will need to go out and then we can start our classes and home study and then hopefully will be on the adoption list by the end of the year. So what started out as a bummed day feeling down God really showed me He really was there for me in the hard time. (I never really doubted it but you all know what I mean).

Matthew 28:20

King James Version (KJV)

 ²⁰Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen

What a fantastic busy week

This week was a blast very very busy but fun. It started out last Sunday we drove to Champaign IL to visit my best friend from AK. They went there to see some family and she couldn't be that close and me not go see her. People thought I was crazy for driving 7 hours to go there for just 1 night but I would do it over and over again.
Sunday night we went to Olive Garden for dinner and then we went shopping and just drove around town  talking, Then on Monday morning we went to the mall and shopped some more and then had lunch at one of my new favorite places Steak and Shake oh how I wish we had one in Omaha. It was so good I inhaled it!

The rest of the week was incredibly bsy I mad e up taking Monday off throughout the week so I worked 6-5:30 Tues-Friday and I had something going on every night preparing for my Pampered Chef Party. Then Saturday morning I took the dogs into the vet for check-ups and since Bellah's allergies were not healed frm the hypoallergen dog food we had to to allergy testing on her. My poor baby girl has had a lot going on in her 2 years of life. her Belly is one big hive and her eyes are all goopy and swollen hopefully they will figure something out soon.

On Saturday afternoon I had my Secret Hostess Show to introduce the new product. I had a pretty good t urn out there was about 6 people there and then my Friend Virginia stayed over night because she lives 3 hours away and she took us to Thia food for the first time and I was in heaven that food was soo good.

I know I feel like I am rambling and all over the place but I am so tired I can't think straight so with that being said I will check in next week again.

Thanks for reading.

Our week of God's blessings

Our week this week has been a lot of planning. My best friend from Alaska is flying to Illinois to see family so we are driving down tomorrow morning to spend Sunday and Monday morning with her and her husband. It will be a quick trip but an exciting one. I haven't seen her in such a long time and we have been the best of friends since High School. I can't wait to see her. More to come on this trip in next weeks blog along with some photos.

On another note I love seeing God at work! I have a friend back in Alaska her and her husband are also going through the adoption process. The Lord has laid it on their hearts to adopt from Thailand. I am so amazed how God has worked in their lives to bring this preious child home to them. They started the process just a short 6 months ago and are already on the waiting list! I am so excited for them. So they should have their little boy or girl in just about a year from now. As you know David and I have chosen to adopt locally and has been blessed to go through Nebraska Children's Home Society which is fortunate enough to not charge their clients for their adoptions. That is not the case with our friends adopting internationally that is a lt of cost for them and the Lord has blessed with that too but the LORD has placed it on my heart to help them out to bring their little one home.

With that being said I am donating my commission sales to them from my Open House with the Pampered Chef to their adoption. So if you would like to help them raise money for their child please go to my website www.pamperedchef.biz/rebekahdehart and click on shop online choose option 1 and in the hostess name put "secret" and you can shop to that party and get the items delivered straight to your house and all proceeds will be donated to Darryl & Amanda towards their adoption.

Something a little different.

I am trying something new in the blog to just to keep you updated not just on the adoption but our lives. Since the adoption is an important very important part of our lives its just that a part of our lives. There is so much more about us too. So every Saturday I am  going to blog about how our week has been.

Today I went and did my normal grocery shopping trip and when I got home with my bags of food for the next two weeks I decided I needed to use the restroom before putting them away. I was gone ten minutes at best and when I came down stairs to put the groceries away I saw black styrofoam everywhere and my steaks I just bought was gone all gone nothing left but shredded styrofoam. Then I turned the corner into the living room and there was Brutus tearing into my roast like he was a hungry lion. Oh I was livid absolutely livid to the point my blood was boiling. I had to put them outside and called the vet. Just to make sure there was nothing wrong. She just said to keep an eye on them and if they get sick to bring them in. After that I put the in there kennels for a little over an hour and now they are not allowed on any furniture today as a punishment.

Earlier this month I signed Bellah up for a Self-Control Class I guess she really needs that class. Now that I am calmed down from the whole experience I can laugh about it and it is something I won't forget for a long long time. I guess even though you have dogs and treat them like humans in the long run they are still animals and they will go after that nature if temped in front of them. But I do love those dogs as if they are my babies and nothing will change that and though I was mad at them at the moment there is nothing they can do to change my love for them.

Our Packet came back

To my surprise our adoption packet came back today. NCHS wanted more detail in the packet than what we gave them. They wanted a full Credit Report and not just a summary, they wanted to know why David only spent 6 months in the Air Force they wanted to know how many children our siblings and parents have. Its crazy how much information they need from us. I guess they really want to know we are serious about the adoption. I mean wow there is so much information already and we are only at the beginning stages, but I am really excited about and can't wait for the next step!

1 year later

It has been an entire year since David and I have attended our first informational meeting. This week has been a very emotionally draining week. I am getting really impatient and want to start my family now. The hardest part so far is the waiting game. Who knew a year after deciding to adopt we would have gone through two agencies and alot of emotional roller coasters and still be at the very beginning of the process. This is going to be a long emotional road we are on. But I know when we do get to the end it will be the best day in my life.

One of the hardest things is waiting on the LORD's perfect timing. I know His timing is not our own and his way is the only way and I shouldnt write my own ending but it is really hard. We just submitted our application to Nebraska Children's Home Society this week. Even though we don't quite have David's life insurance in place yet they told me they don't need that until the home study process. So to go ahead and send the packet so they can get started on everything else.

I did volunteer to work with my agency with their Sand in the City Fundraiser they have each June. That will be exciting.