I added a link on the right to my friend Angie's new blog. She started about a month ago, and I love it. I'm not sure how I spaced out on adding a link. Angie and I were in the hospital together when Finley and Emmett were born, just hours and rooms apart. Dave and I work with Angie and her husband, Greg.
Also, I started our adoption timeline. I find these so useful when I'm visiting other adoption blogs and, more than once recently, I've been asked "where we are" in our process. So, here it is.
When I was putting it together last night, I couldn't help but think again about the similarities between building our family through our pregnancies and, this time around, through our adoption. With Theo and Emmett, the question was always, "How many weeks?" or "Which trimester?" or "How far along?" And now, it's "Where are you in the process?" It's my feeling that the adoption, like pregnancy, is really divided into 3 major parts: the homestudy, waiting for the referral, and then waiting to and finally traveling. Each period has it's own milestones... like every trimester. In the first, it's waiting for the nauseousness to subside. In the second, it's being able to feel your baby moving inside of you and beginning to show, so the entire world knows that your expecting. And with the third, clearly, it's looking forward to childbirth (or, the travel call...) and life thereafter.
And so, right now we are waiting for the news that our homestudy document is complete (any day now?) and has been sent to A.I.A.A. in Michigan. I'm anxious for this first trimester, and all of the not-knowing that goes with it, to be over. I can't wait to have our referral, our baby, in my hands, so that I can show the world that I, too, am expecting.
(the link has been on my blog since the beginning, but i wanted to point it out to those of you who may be in the adoption process as well, particularly adopting from korea. david's blogspot chronicles his trip to korea this summer in search of his biological family. my husband and i work with david and his "journey into his past" served as a big push for us, into our future. also, i added a link to my best friend erin's website. enjoy!!)
3 comments:
I hope your homestudy (and all the major paperwork) is complete now too! Then on to the second (hopefully very short) trimester... Thanks for adding a timeline - I find it really interesting comparing the Canadian process to the US.
I like your summary of the process! Thank you for posting your time line. I too find them very helpful!
Ahhh, just think--the "morning sickness" is almost over. I agree--the not knowing is always the hardest part. Not that we had the not knowing--but I've had it other areas of my life.
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