Anxiously waiting

This adoption journey feels like a pregnancy journey some days. I feel like I have been on an emotional hormonal roller coaster crying over the silliest of things. We bought her a doll to give to her when she arrives left me crying in the toy aisle, getting a text saying we were certified to foster- crying in the aisle in the grocery store, hanging up things in her bedroom again crying... the list goes on and on.

In my pregnancies we had 10 months to prepare for our children to arrive and now we may have a few weeks, months and worst case a year or so to wait for her to arrive. We are transitioning the boys from their playroom into it being sister's bedroom. We are trying to get rid of some of our extra toys so we can fit all the things she will need into the house. But yet we are left not knowing what to get rid of. Do you keep the bouncer? The swing? How about a tummy time mat? The unknown is so hard some days especially when I want to have control over everything!! (Me needing control?!)

We received our first phone call!  We didn't tell people we received the phone call because unfortunately the situation did not fit for our family. It was a sibling set and as excited as we were and encouraged to be receiving a phone call already, we want to bring in one child at a time into our family. We have decided to tell people because it is the number one question we get. "Did you hear anything yet?" We know that everyone is so excited for us and excited to meet our future daughter, we decided to share.

Where we are right now in the process of paperwork-
It is hard to believe that we have completed and submitted ALL of our paperwork!! Yoo-hoo! Like we posted before we are officially certified to be foster parents. What we didn't realize is that we weren't certified to adopt. We thought it went together and we were just going to fill out the other paperwork to be put on the adoption registry. Luckily the adoption registry paperwork was the same to get certified to adopt! I made a scrapbook of our family so if we get selected as one of the "possible" families the caseworker can look through it with the rest of our information to see if we would be the best family for that child.

Until we get certified to adopt we are only eligible for a child within our agency. Once we get certified to adopt then our information will be shared throughout all of Maricopa County opening us up to more children in need of a forever family.

Thank you again for all of your continued prayers and encouraging comments!