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!
Waiting for you :)
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
It's been a while
OK so a lot has happened since my last post. It's been several months.
First of all I wanted to start with our intake interview. We had that back on May 7,2012. That went well. It was a lot more detailed than I imagine. We just went over David and I's life story on how we met and talked about the adoption process. We were told to start reading some books about adoption and open adoption. The first book I read was "20 Things an adopted Child wish their Adoptive parents knew." This is a must read for anyone who has adopted or even thinking about adoption. It real puts you in your child's feeling. The next book I plan on reading is " The open adoption experience".
A few days after that we left to go on our Orgeon trip for 2 weeks. I really enjoyed that vacation and it was a MUCH needed one. I really enjoyed seeing family again, It had been 5 years since we were in Oregon. The last time we were their my sister in law Sally was pregnant with my neice Kassidy who is now 4.5 years old. I LOVED spending time with Kassidy she was so much fun to hang out with. I also went down to Roseburg and spent a week with my grandparents and my mom went to so I got to spend mother's day with her. I loved it but it was nice to come back home. Then a week later my dad, his sister and his parents came to Nebraska from Ohio to spend the weekend with us,
On June 4th David and I celebrated 7 years of marriage. How in the world have we been married that long already. Time is just flying by. It feels like I just walked down the aisle and here we are 7 years, 2 dogs, 3 houses and 2 states later, Its amazing what God can do in just 7 years.
OK, now back to the adoption. We just received our invitation to the Parenting Classes with the agency on July 12 & 13th. This is all the way in North Platte NE which is four and half hour drive one way. So we are going to have to make a mini vacation out of it. Which will be nice for David and I to spend some good quality time together and maybe meet some other adoptive couples too.
First of all I wanted to start with our intake interview. We had that back on May 7,2012. That went well. It was a lot more detailed than I imagine. We just went over David and I's life story on how we met and talked about the adoption process. We were told to start reading some books about adoption and open adoption. The first book I read was "20 Things an adopted Child wish their Adoptive parents knew." This is a must read for anyone who has adopted or even thinking about adoption. It real puts you in your child's feeling. The next book I plan on reading is " The open adoption experience".
A few days after that we left to go on our Orgeon trip for 2 weeks. I really enjoyed that vacation and it was a MUCH needed one. I really enjoyed seeing family again, It had been 5 years since we were in Oregon. The last time we were their my sister in law Sally was pregnant with my neice Kassidy who is now 4.5 years old. I LOVED spending time with Kassidy she was so much fun to hang out with. I also went down to Roseburg and spent a week with my grandparents and my mom went to so I got to spend mother's day with her. I loved it but it was nice to come back home. Then a week later my dad, his sister and his parents came to Nebraska from Ohio to spend the weekend with us,
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| My dad and I at the Sand and the City which is a NCHS fundraising event |
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| David and I at the most beautiful waterfall |
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| David and his dad |
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| David and I with his brother and his wife at the Soccer Game |
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| Shopping with our niece Kassidy |
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| Me and my beautiful Mama! |
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| Us with my dad and aunt and Grandparents |
On June 4th David and I celebrated 7 years of marriage. How in the world have we been married that long already. Time is just flying by. It feels like I just walked down the aisle and here we are 7 years, 2 dogs, 3 houses and 2 states later, Its amazing what God can do in just 7 years.
OK, now back to the adoption. We just received our invitation to the Parenting Classes with the agency on July 12 & 13th. This is all the way in North Platte NE which is four and half hour drive one way. So we are going to have to make a mini vacation out of it. Which will be nice for David and I to spend some good quality time together and maybe meet some other adoptive couples too.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Forget my last post
You can forget my last post. I signed up for classes to attend Liberty Online and then we found out it was going to be over $1000 a class a total of $30,000 a year. David and I prayed about and decided this was not the right time for me to go to school. After doing research on what I could be making and what I make now. There wasn't a whole lot of difference in salary. So for now I am not going back to school. Disappointed yes but was it the right decision yes. I mean when the LORD does decide to bless us with our little blessing, my hope is to be able to stay home anyway so David was right this time its just not worth the debt. We are so close to being out of debt and I don't want to take another step backwards.
Friday, April 20, 2012
Going Back to school
What am I thinking? I decided I miss school so I decided to go back to school? This is something I really want to do but I am really nervous about it too. Not nervous about the school part. but nervous about the money. Can we really afford for me to go back to school? I applied for loans and everything but we are really wanting to get out of debt but for something like school is it really worth it? I am so glad I have such a supportive husband who is willing to let me do this even though he wants us to get out of debt. He really doesn't want to take on any more loans but he is willing to do it because this is something I really want to do. I love him so much! We both want me to stay home when we have kids so he really doesn't see why I need to go to school but I would like to have the degree under my belt just in-case I do have to work. I love the job I have now but its kind of hard to move up without a degree of some sort.
I decided to go with elementary education because I want to home school my kids and I want them to have the best education they can have. In order to do that I need to know what I am doing so to me it just seems right to do elementary education even though I may never actually become a real teacher but who know the LORD may be using this as a tool for him to open some doors in the future. Right now I am happy with the job I am at and it helps pay the bills. Who where the LORD will bring us but I know he will provide faithfully to us if we are faithful to him. He already has blessed us so much in the last 2 years we have been in Omaha. I can't believe we have been here 2 years already.
Don't get me wrong I miss Alaska and part of my heart will always be there but it feels so good to be in the will of the LORD. You know how you know it is the right decision to make but you just not sure if it is what you want. That's how I felt about moving here 2 years ago and the Lord mad everything fall into place with our condo selling in less than a month in this economy being able to afford a single family home in a quiet suburb in Omaha. Finding a wonderful church family that treats us like we have always been there and meeting wonderful friends here that treat us like we are apart of their family. Its been a hard but a good move and I think that is how school is going to be we will run into our challenges with it and may run into some financial binds especially bringing a baby into our family probably within the next 1-2 years whenever God sees fit. But I am ready for the challenge and I really miss school and I am going to a wonderful Christian University in Lynchburg VA called Liberty University online. I am so blessed to be doing this. I wish I would have gone in 2003 when I graduated from High School but now just seems to be the right timing.
I decided to go with elementary education because I want to home school my kids and I want them to have the best education they can have. In order to do that I need to know what I am doing so to me it just seems right to do elementary education even though I may never actually become a real teacher but who know the LORD may be using this as a tool for him to open some doors in the future. Right now I am happy with the job I am at and it helps pay the bills. Who where the LORD will bring us but I know he will provide faithfully to us if we are faithful to him. He already has blessed us so much in the last 2 years we have been in Omaha. I can't believe we have been here 2 years already.
Don't get me wrong I miss Alaska and part of my heart will always be there but it feels so good to be in the will of the LORD. You know how you know it is the right decision to make but you just not sure if it is what you want. That's how I felt about moving here 2 years ago and the Lord mad everything fall into place with our condo selling in less than a month in this economy being able to afford a single family home in a quiet suburb in Omaha. Finding a wonderful church family that treats us like we have always been there and meeting wonderful friends here that treat us like we are apart of their family. Its been a hard but a good move and I think that is how school is going to be we will run into our challenges with it and may run into some financial binds especially bringing a baby into our family probably within the next 1-2 years whenever God sees fit. But I am ready for the challenge and I really miss school and I am going to a wonderful Christian University in Lynchburg VA called Liberty University online. I am so blessed to be doing this. I wish I would have gone in 2003 when I graduated from High School but now just seems to be the right timing.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
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
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
Monday, March 12, 2012
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).
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
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)
Sunday, March 4, 2012
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.
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.
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