The Little Things in Life

I know I said I would update the day after my first post, but we have been so busy. We had small group this week, and we had dinner with Kyle's sister and her husband last night. Lyndie and Dave are their names and they have two boys who we just adore. Dave and Lyndie were very generous and gave us a donation to begin this process and we couldn't more thankful for them and their beautiful hearts. We can't wait to bring home our baby and meet their cousins and add another addition to our family. Thanks so much Dave and Lyndie, we love you guys so much and we appreciate your support in so many ways.

We have gotten so many messages, texts, and comments and I was just blown away by how supportive everyone seems. We feel so blessed to know so many of you and we are excited to have you guys follow our journey. Anytime you have questions or just want to chat, feel free to email, leave a comment, or message us on facebook. What great resources we have now. :)

Today I checked the mail, and dreaded the bill that I knew was coming our way. Our insurance company won't cover anything under infertility and we knew that going into our process of going to the Dr. but we wanted to make sure everything was okay. Which, I'm glad we did, because we now know what was going on. Anyway, I was expecting a huge bill, and it turned out to be shockingly cheap. I was truly amazed by how much our insurance company ended up covering... another way God is showing up and blessing us. For so long I thought God was against us having children, but with all these small things popping up, I can tell that God just wanted me especially to give it to Him and really go after our adoption now. He is opening so many doors and blessing us in ways I never thought possible.

My mom has been so interested and emotional since we told her about our decision and has been so sweet. She is constantly offering us help, which will be hard because everything we need is stuff only we can do, but she offered to clean our house or do whatever I needed. How sweet?! She is great! Along with mothers, my mother-in-law has been amazing and giving us so much advice on this process since she and her husband have been through it twice themselves. What a great resource and helpful guide. We are surrounded by such an amazing immediate family and extended family, and our friends. We are so lucky.

My dad has been very supportive as well. Often times I think men don't get it and can't understand how women feel, but my dad has been great through this.  He understands how we are feeling and I truly know that he supports our decision, but I don't think he has given up on us having our own children and I love that.

We are really enjoying the little things in life right now and couldn't be more thankful for them. There are so many times I'm looking for a big event to happen, or a big sign, but I am learning it's the little things that add up and reassure me when I'm scared or have so many questions.

There will probably be some words and parts of the process that some people don't understand so I thought I would try to give a little info on that stuff:
Right now we are filling out another application for our adoption agency. It asks all kinds of questions, and is about 50 or so pages long. We have a lot of reading and signing, and filling out forms to do. Once we are finished with that, we have to send in half of our agency fee to the adoption agency and we get our dossier. A dossier is: a file containing detailed records on a particular person or subject. It is pronounced dah-see-a. That will be tons of paperwork on our end. It will entail our home-study. When someone from another agency comes to our house and asks us questions, checks out our home to make sure we can have kids and its a safe environment for a child. We will get fingerprints, things notarized, things sent to the state of Indiana, even things that need to be put through the US capital. It can be a long process or it can be a decently short process. It all depends on quickly we do the paperwork and stay on top of things. My mother-in-law has heard of it being finished in as little 3 months, so that will be my goal :) All of the information from our dossier will then be sent to Ethiopia and then we wait. Which I'm imagining will be the longest months of our lives, but so so worth it. Once we get matched with a baby, we will then wait to find out our court date. When we have our court date, we will buy tickets to go to Ethiopia for the first time. We will have to go to court to make sure we will get approved on Ethiopia's side. We will come home and wait some more :) Once we are approved, we will have little time to know when we go back to pick up our baby. Again, so worth the wait!! Between that time, we will hopefully have a picture or two,  medical history, and some information on our new little bundle of joy. What a process?! It will be long and tiring and will probably seem like an eternity but we know that God is to going show up big in this journey and we are very excited to see what this brings.


Thank you for all your support, comments, and prayers. I am now off to do some paperwork and to have dinner with some great friends tonight. This week has been and will be full of meeting up with friends and catching up and filling them in on what's going in our lives and listening to theirs as well. 


Happy almost Friday :)