Mead Adoption

Still waiting to hear from our social worker!
In the meantime I’ve been talking to a lot of different people who’ve adopted… most recently a chick whose husband’s name is Daniel and he’s a youth pastor! SMALL WORLD!!! She’s schooling me on getting grants and how we CAN manage to pull this [...]

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We received notice that our pre-application has been received and reviewed by Bethany’s corporate office. We should be contacted within two days by our social worker! Kinda nervous… not sure why… I guess just wondering what countries we qualify for and all!
I’ll keep you posted…

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I have been absolutely BLOWN AWAY by all of the support everyone’s shown! I can’t tell you how many positive facebook comments or conversations we’ve had… Daniel and I are just so excited that everyone else is excited too!
One thing I’ve learned in our short little adoption journey so far, is people who have done [...]

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A lady in our church put us in contact with a couple who adopted from South Korea two years ago using the same agency that we are interested in…
This is how their process went… (short version)
December 2005 – began process
February 2006 – finished paperwork and home studies
March 2007 – picked up their little [...]

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We submitted our pre-application today… basically that means we filled out an online questionnaire including all of our basic information: who we are, how much money we make, what we do for a living, etc.
We also had to list all of the countries we are interested in along with gender preference information and whether we would consider [...]

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There’s so much to think about since we started this whole adoption process. All I really want to do is sit around and think of things we should do in the Baby’s room and how I can’t wait until we get to start buying baby clothes and what we might name the baby… my list [...]

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YAY! We met with Bethany Christian Services last night. They are THE largest adoption agency in the United States which makes me feel a little bit more warm and fuzzy about the process.
We showed up late… AGGHGHG… frustrates both of us beyond end to be late for anything. Crazy Atlanta traffic! Anyway, fortunately they had [...]

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This post was taken from Tiffany’s blog…
Yeap you read that right! Daniel and I have decided to adopt a baby…
Kinda been a long time coming but here’s the short of it!
About a year and a half ago I started falling in love with the whole idea of adoption. I kept quickly talking myself out of [...]

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