God's Perfect Plan

The angels looking down from heaven saw the woman start to cry,
Saw her heart was breaking once again, saw her husband deeply sigh.

The angels each could feel their pain from way up in the sky.
Must they always have such heartache? The angels wondered why.

So they approached the Heavenly Father and asked him to explain
Why a loving, faithful couple must endure such hurt and pain.

For they only want a child to love, to share their lives and dreams.
The Father gently told them "All is not quite as it seems".

"You see, there is a child for them, I've picked the perfect one,
Their hopes and dreams will be fulfilled one day thru adoption".

"This child will not be born to them, yet together they will be,
Soon joined in love and happiness, finally a family".

Then the angels sang a song of joy for the Father helped them see
God's plans include such special ways to make a family.

Author unknown

Bad News / Good News

I've been so busy at work so haven't had much time to do anything, keeping up on my email and posting here has dropped to the bottom of the list. Sleep is just before and even that is lacking lately with so much on my mind.

We had been waiting to see our profile posted on the agency's site and couldn't understand why it was taking so long when we uploaded it the same day we dropped off the paper profiles. So Dan contacted the agency early last week and found out that there was some accounting error and we were NOT in the book. Let's just say Dan was not a happy Canadian. As for me, I was bummed but too busy to take time to be mad.

We are officially in the book (as of Wednesday) and our profile has been uploaded on the agency's website. Phew! As for the last week or so and not being in the book, I'm sure God has her reasons so I'm going to let it go and look to the future. So now the official wait begins!

I'm going to be one of those!

I went to lunch and shopping with Jill today, had a wonderful time! There were babies and toddlers everywhere and it didn't bother me at all. We went to Applebee's for lunch and there were at least 10 strollers lined up in the lobby and as we were waiting for our table I was thinking "OMG, that is going to be me one day! Parking my baby's stroller in the lobby while we have lunch". I can't wait for that day to come!

I did restrain myself from going into the baby stores, but as we walked by I did peek in and thought about buying something. However I want Dan and I to be together for the first item we buy for the baby. Korny, I know.

Also I noticed there was a play area for the kids at the mall (and it was packed) and all I could think of was "yuck, germs!" I'm totally going to have to buy stock in Purell! And get over some of my issues ;-) It will be so worth it though.

In "the book"

I found out late yesterday afternoon that we are in the book! We are so excited! We wanted to celebrate last night by going out to dinner however work has been super busy for me and I had to work late. UGH!

I know that everytime the phone rings or we have a message I'll be holding my breath in anticipation wondering if it is the agency. I hope it is a short wait cause I don't know if I can handle extended periods of anticipation.

Linda

We are adopting!

Some of you know, and some we have not told. We have struggled with unexplained infertility for almost three years. It has been a very VERY long journey; we have endured endless heartache month after month. Unless you have walked this journey it may be hard to understanding what we have gone through, if you'd like some better understanding click on the link to the right titled Empty Arms.

The time came this summer when we had to say enough to the infertility treatments. It was time to move on and we knew in our hearts we were ready for the gift of adoption. We picked an agency and decided on domestic infant adoption and began the process to get approved. We had been told it could take anywhere from 4 to 6 months just to get approved. To our pleasant surprise it has been a very smooth process for us, from time of registration to being approved to adopt it only took 83 days! We were amazed and it just reaffirmed that this is definitely the right path for us to take. We wanted to wait until we were approved before we shared the news with extended family and friends.

Last week we turned in our parent profile to go in "The Waiting Family" book at the agency, it should be added in the next day or so. We are excited, nervous and scared all at once. We could get picked right away or we could wait months on end. But one day we will realize our dream of becoming parents and we wanted to share this exciting news with everyone. We will also do our own outreach to find a potential birth mom/parents (yes, Dan has already built a website for us; see link to the right Open to Adoption).

I wanted to create this blog to keep friends and family members updated on our progress, to provide a fast and easy way to check on how things are going for us. I hope to continue with this site even after our child is in our arms. I know there are a lot of people out there praying for us, we appreciate all of your prayers, our deepest thanks goes out to you.

Thank you for taking time to read about our journey, we hope you will continue to follow along.

Love,
Linda & Dan