How to help

Working on some small fundraisers while we wait. Feels good to do small things like this, makes me feel like I'm one step closer to the finish line. So the fundraiser is 31 gifts. Here's the website: http://www.thirtyonegifts.com/Catalog/ Twenty five percent of the purchase goes towards our adoption fund. You can purchase one item or host a party. October's special is https://www.mythirtyone.com/content/specials.aspx and November and December's special are really great. Let me know if you're interested. These bags are great for that hard to buy for person on your list. Or great for yourself. =)

BUSTED

I've been busted, Aunt B informed me that there hadn't been a new post since July! Yikes!! So sorry guys! Sometimes I feel like I'm writing a journal, because we don't get a lot of comments so I forget that some are using this as their way to keep up on our adoption news.

Well here's the update. Homestudy is done. Albums have been delivered to Georgia and the placement agency thinks our album is "beautiful". Our agency in Portland is in the process working on signing 3 new contracts with placement agencies. So that's great news!! More placement agencies mean more birth mothers and more opportunities.

And the ending of the cliff hanger.... It was our adoption agency telling us there was a new birth mother in the program. Which is exciting.. but not as exciting as getting a call to tell us a birth mother has picked us. Sorry again for the cliff hanger, I'll try to do my best to keep this more updated, but we're in waiting mode.

Also in the process of painting a Jenny Lind craddle that has been in my family for years. So.. I will be posting pictures of that very soon. It turned out so stinkin' cool!! Thanks for reading!

Voicemail

Anyone who knows me.. knows.. my cell phone isn't a part of my being. I can go a whole weekend not knowing where it is. If you need to get a hold of me you call Bryan. That's just a fact, or you'll wait until I find it. =) hahah 

So generally this works good for me, but Saturday I about peed my pants. I was checking my voicemails saturday morning and got a voicemail from our agency!! Only the voicemail  was from last tuesday!! I was our social worker with some information about a birthmother in Georgia. That's all the message said.. did we get picked, is a birth mother looking at our album, is their just a new birthmother to the program? Well I learned my lesson, because now I've spend my whole weekend wondering what she needed to tell me. I have been checking my phone hourly just to make sure I haven't missed a call.  

And so the waiting begins...

Home Study

We have been given a social worker and a home study appointment has been made!! Our social worker Jodi seems very nice and we're looking forward to meeting her! I'm sure you're wondering what a home study is and why we're excited about it. The home study is when a social worker comes to your house and evaluates your home and mental state. That's how I like to explain it anyhow. We're hoping we pass this one.. since we have 2 pretty normal kids and a rad marriage. =))) haha So Jodi will come to our house and meet us and the boys for 6+ hours. Then she will write a huge report on us. That will take about a month for her to write. Our appointment is for June 18th, so if you can say a little prayer for us on June 18th we would appreciate it.

Because I think it's more entertaining with pictures....

This is the newest addition to my etsy website.. Wipe covers, not just for babies, I keep on in my car for the boys and their sticky faces and fingers.

And for the duck lovers...

I can make these in any of the bib fabrics you see on my esty site, but these are my favorite so far. I will tell you Aidan is totally disgusted with me that I would even own this fabric. "Do you like the ducks?!!?!" he asks me. Too funny.

Etsy website: http://www.etsy.com/shop/bibsbyleecoe?ref=shop_sugg

Paperwork

Paperwork is DONE!!! Bryan mailed the last of the paperwork in to the agency on Friday. What a feeling of relief. Just in time for the weekend so we can relax.. haha not really, but relax from paperwork. We have our monthly call from the agency tomorrow and we can't wait to tell her the news.

Next step is the home study! So we have been doing some decluttering this weekend in preparation. Which means throwing the boys junky toys away. We will also need to set up the baby's room to show the social worker we have a place for the baby.. not sure how the transfering of furniture is going to work.. but I am excited to put the crib up. =)

Happy belated Mother's day! Super blessed to have these cute little guys. Hope you  have a great week!

So close!!

Oh man, we're so close! We had our physician letters filled out today, which was one that we've been putting off. Mainly because we knew we were going to have to wait for a long time to be seen. But she gave us the stamp of approval and we were on our way. But we did indeed have to wait longer than I wanted to, with two cranky kids. I forgot to bring food and entertainment, so I'll take part of the blame for the crankiness.

We have 2 outstanding documents that we need other people to complete for us and one more form that we have to fill out. Bryan is filling our final document out as I type. YAY!

So what happens after we finish? We submit the remaining paperwork and they schedule an appointment to come to our house and make sure we're suitable parents..  which we're really hoping we pass, since we already have 2 children and we think we're doing a pretty good job with them. haha Then they do a little report on us and then our family album can be shown to birthmothers!!

Education is DONE!!

OHHH YEAH!!!! Finished our education that is required..  Another one bites the dust! I'm excited, can you tell? I will say there are a few more classes we want to take before we welcome our bundle of joy into our lives.

We have 5 more items to complete.. one might say just finish it up already.. well it's not that simple! Most of the items require someone else to complete for us. We constantly have to remind ourselves to be patient.. it will all come together. God has already picked out our child. So hang in there with us.. we can see the light at the end of the paperwork tunnel. We received a huge binder full of paperwork at the beginning of our journey and the binder is almost empty!