This morning my wife and I were abruptly woken by someone pounding on our door…at 5:30 a.m. I shuffled out of bed, grabbed my glasses and went downstairs to see who it was at our door. I spoke through the door, which was double locked for those concerned, and asked who they were and what [...]
Coming into our first home study day we had very little idea what to expect. We knew that there would be lots of personal questions, but that’s about the extent of it. Well it turned out that we were right about the personal questions, though we were unaware of just how personal the questions would [...]
It’s been a long time since anything has been written about the adoption, so in this post I’ll try to update you with everything that has happened since I last wrote about it. The PRIDE weekend was good. I went in feeling a little nervous about what kind of people would be in the group. [...]
For a while now Jen and I have known that we wanted to adopt a child someday. A little less than a year ago we decided that it was time for us to start pursuing that goal. We looked around at several agencies, Jen read a couple of books and finally we ended up settling [...]
It’s odd how vacations, which are supposed to be these terribly relaxing times, always start with a mad rush to get out of the house. From what I understand, once you have kids that rush never ends, but alas I don’t have kids yet. We left last night to go on our summer vacation and [...]