Starting the Nursery!

So we have finally decided to start a nursery.  It is kind of nice to actually be able to start one for the first time.  This time we know we will have a baby eventually.  Who knows how long it will take, but we will have a baby.
So with our schedules lately, we have not been able to find a time for us to go shopping for a crib.  We finally decided to go this Sunday.  Definitely not the best day to go to Dallas.  It rained the entire way there (sometimes really crazy rain) and there was impending ice and snow coming at 6pm.

 

So we made it to Dallas safely and pulled into the toys r us/babies r us parking lot that we have seen every time we came to the mall in Arlington.  We went in and found absolutely no cribs!  I mean NONE!  I was getting extremely angry at the idea that we had driven all this way and now we would leave empty handed?!  We did find the bedding set that we had decided on but I was still angry.  I told Barry that I was going to ask on the way out if there was another store that actually had cribs in the area.  He asked me to wait til he got outside before I got mean to the lady.  I asked her and she said Babies r us.  I said, I thought we were in Babies r us.  She then told us where there was an actual Babies r us with all the cribs.

So we drove a couple blocks and found the store we should have been in from the beginning. We went back and forth across the store trying to decide between two cribs.  I told Barry that we would take whichever of the two that they had in the store right then.  We just barely were able to fit it in the back seat of the truck.  I felt bad because Barry couldn't see out the back window. 

But we made it home and put the crib together in the nursery.  Still have a lot to do in the nursery - going to do a wood wall behind the crib and going to paint a wall, a bookshelf, and a dresser.

 



Taking profile pictures

Our awesome friends/photographer!

Up to date

So, for now, you are all up to date.  We are waiting for the official home study report so that we can apply to adoption agencies.  And we are waiting for our profile books to arrive (hopefully today).  After those two things happen, we will be waiting for the right situation to come our way.  When we find the right situation, we will present our book to the birth mother and wait to see if she chooses us to parent her child.  So that is where we are today.  I will update as things move along!

Finally able to buy baby stuff...

So, for the first time in 14 years, we have been able to start making purchases for our baby and our nursery!  I went straight out after we passed our home study and bought the first cute outfit I loved.

 

Barry didn't even comment that it would look funny on our son, lol.  Anyone who knows me knows how much I love pink flamingos!

We had already found a swing we loved so we bought it.

 

And we actually bought an awesome stroller.  It should be a good one for a long time and we love it!









Home Study Feb 5, 2015

I stressed about the home study for weeks.  I cleaned and cleaned and worried and cleaned some more.  Then the day was finally here.  Kristen at Adoption Answers was wonderful. She asked her questions and we answered.  It was nowhere near the horror that I have imagined it to be.  Wrigley was a terror that day, lol.  He thought she needed to pet him and kept trying to be in her lap.  Thank goodness that didn't matter.  She told us before she left that we had passed and all was good. 
I sometimes wonder what these people actually think of me, lol.  I know I have emailed this poor woman so many times with so many questions.  I know she is happy that we passed the home study anyway, but I bet she is thrilled to be almost done with me.

Christian Adoption Consultants January 2015

We finally decided we were ready to start the adoption process at the beginning of January 2015!  New year, new adventure!
Thanks to a friend who had recently adopted, we heard about Susan and Christian Adoption Consultants.  She helped us to get started. She also guided us in the process and what to do next.  Then, she sent us PAPERWORK PAPERWORK PAPERWORK!!!!

 

 

Susan will not only help us with the paperwork, but she will also do our profile book and help us to look for situations.  She is also a great source of comfort when I go a little crazy and need answers!

WE ARE ADOPTING!

After many years of trying to get pregnant, we made the decision to have our child a different way.  We finally realized that a baby is what we want and we don't care whether we have a child biologically or through adoption.  We just know that we want a child that we can love and teach and share our lives with.  I know that times will be tough and there will be lots of waiting, but we know that at the end, we will have a child of our own!