Adoption update

People have been asking how the adoption is going lately.

Our home study is done. We spent a lot of time on it, and it took a lot of physical and emotional energy, but it's done!

So what now...

We wait. That's it. It's not very glamourous for a while. Nothing we can do on our part will make this go any faster - except pray. Not that we want it to go particularly fast or slow. We are truly at God's mercy in all of this. There have been moments lately that I feel completely incapable of adding another child to our family. I have gone back to work, and while I have not settled into that routine yet, I can see that it will add a new challenge.

I am working at Children's Mercy again as an anesthesia NP. My shifts will be 0630 to 1430 (2:30 pm for my non-healthcare friends), Monday, Wednesday and Thursday for the next 12 weeks, then Monday/Wednesday after that. After doing hospital orientation this week, I can see that waking up early will be harder for me than I thought. We have hired a nanny to watch Isaac (primarily) and get the other kids off to school and preschool. The hope is that once our child is home with us, I will take FMLA from work to get her settled, then the nanny will resume watching the kids while I go back to work.

We haven't had much time to talk about our future lately, we've been too wrapped up in the present. Our kids are keeping us very busy, as well as our schedules. We finished our foster care classes a few weeks ago. That was another adventure that I may tell about another day. We are not licensing for foster placements yet, but maybe after the holidays. I think Jason and I both agree that we need some time to decompress from all that we have been doing.

We hope to spend our time of waiting in prayer, and learning as much as we can about Taiwan. It's people, it's culture. We hope to prepare ourselves as much as possible for the child God has for us.

So that's the update. Not much else to say. As any changes happen I'll try to update. But for now...we wait.

Valerie