Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Profile completed!!

We got an email this morning telling us that our profile was completed and ready to be printed!! (the profile is about our family that birth moms can look at when deciding on who to place their baby with) It went extremely fast because of two great friends that recommend we go through Christian Adoption Consultants who help us with all paperwork and questions! Thanks Amber and Mindy!

Now we wait for our home study to be completed then we can send out our profiles to the adoption consultants.  So while we wait for that I need to get the profiles printed.  These little books are bound together and are adorable but each agency wants at least 3-5 profile books! This I don't understand. They don't show our profile to more than one birth mother at a time so what are they doing with them? I told myself that they probably take them to pregnancy resource centers and put them out as magazines for people to look through. :) Wouldn't that be perfect?

So with 8 agencies that they suggested we send our applications through 4 of them are free to apply. 2  are $100 to apply. 1 is $300 to apply and 1 is $500 to apply. Wowzers, that's just for applying.  I hope the agency that costs $500 to apply is the one that our birth mother is through just so we feel like we didn't throw that money away.  Yes, I know if we are blessed with a baby that God has chosen for us then the money won't ever matter! :) "If money is the problem, than it's not a problem!" quote from my wonderful dad who has let God control him and his money his entire life and never suffered because of it.  Isn't he darling?!?!

I will keep you updated on anything else that happens.  Thank you for all the encouraging texts, emails, phone calls and conversations telling us that you are excited and praying for us!  I have found so much comfort in revealing our story.  I feel as though a cloud has been lifted from me.  Women from all stages of life have come to me telling me they can relate in different ways. Want a relief to know others can relate to our secret world we don't speak of. A world where we hurt but smile through it so others wouldn't dare know it.  Well I'm hear to talk about it!  So lets chat!