It has been some time since I posted due to having jury duty. It has been years since I was summoned so I was very excited. I know it is weird but I like doing it, the whole process is interesting to me. I have also been busy trying to set up some fundraising opportunities for us. I will talk about those in a different post. Today I thought I would explain the birth mother letters that we will be making. When I mention them in casual conversations with people I always get a very confused look, so I am going to do my best. This letter is set up like a small brochure and printed in color on paper kind of like card stock. The front page will have a picture of us and a greeting thanking the Expecting mother (EM) for taking the time to get to know us a little and expressing our understanding of the difficult decision ahead of her. We will also have contact information for us;new email address, a toll free number, and our agencies info as well. The next few pages will have sections about our interests, our family, the type of community we live in, what we plan on trying to teach our child and how they will fit into our lives. We both also had to do a section about the other in our own words. This section talked about our character and what kinds of things each would do with our child like teaching them to play sports or reading  to them every night. Along with the text there will be a lot of pictures of us doing things we like and playing with our friends children. So I guess the short way to explain this is it is a brochure that is used to market us a the best parents for there child.

Work was definitely an understatement. We had paper work to fill out , finger printing to get done, medical check ups,  and complete a home study all before we could start our birth mother letters. You may be asking what a birth mother letter is, I will explain that at a later time. I guess I will start with the home study first. We were so blessed that we found a wonderful person in our area that was able to start this process ASAP. We scheduled to meet right after the start of the new year. At our first meeting she told us that we could move  as quickly or slowly as we wanted. We thought the faster the better so that meant we really had to get organized . The home study process was not bad at all. We had a meeting scheduled about every 10 to 12 days. We were scheduled to have 4 separate meetings to complete the home study. Many people have asked " what all is involved in a home study?", well they check the house, we both had to do an autobiography, medical check ups, and FBI/ state clearances/ finger prints. I know it sounds like a lot but my husband is very organized and stayed on top of it all.  I am happy to report that our home study was finished in about 8 weeks!!! This was just one more thing that we could mark off the long list of things we had to complete. As our "to do " list was getting smaller my anxiety started to increase some. I know it sounds weird but when we were busy I didn't have time to think so much about the waiting process.