Busy Week

I feel like we've had a busy, productive, and exciting week. This week we had our first meeting with our social worker to start the homestudy process, we got fingered printed for DCFS, listened in on a conference call from Ethiopia, got assigned a family coordinator at AWAA, filled out lots and lots of paperwork for the homestudy, and got all the paperwork to start on the dossier process. Tomorrow we are getting all the pets their shots to prove they are up-to-date.
It's so interesting to hear everyone's reaction to find out that we are adopting. Some people are so excited and treat it just as if we said we were pregnant and going to have a biological child, and others wonder why we are doing it. We've been asked many times why we haven't gone to a fertility clinic and then they say it's nice of us to adopt. It's so not about us. We truly feel God is wanting to start our family through the gift of adoption. Some people talk about adoption as their paper pregnancy. I can see what they mean, because this is an exciting time and there is always something to look forward to. Everyday we get to do something that gets us closer to our child. Some days we get to fill out papers, take a class, meet with someone, and somedays we get to pray for our child and pray for guidance and wisdom during this whole process and just get to dream about the future with our children. I feel that Brad and I are definitely growing closer to eachother and learning how to rely on eachother and God in a whole new way. This is an exciting journey that God is letting us take and leading us on and He is teaching us to trust in Him to provide for us through this. It's easy to have hundreds of reasons not to adopt- we don't have the money, it's going to be hard, it's going to take a long time. But there are better reasons for us to adopt-God has called us to and He will provide for all of our needs.