The Beginning

This is my first "real" attempt at a blog.  I follow a couple of friends blogs and they are inspiring and intriguing and motivating and so here I am tonight, sitting on my couch, creating this blog.   Please bear with me as my blog site grows and becomes more creative over time!!!

My hope it that this will help chronicle our journey of a growing family.

We have turned the page and started a new chapter.  

We met with Jill from Bethany Christian Services yesterday to understand our adoption options as well as know, "where do we go from here".  

Jill is amazing!!!  She laid out all the options, was very honest with us, very up front about all the risks, benefits and options.  Just my kind of person!  I like to know everything possible up front, and with as many details as you can give me.  

We are still hoping to work through Alaska to adopt, primarily because they have more children available or closer to being available than Colorado does.  

Jill is going to be working with us to finish our paperwork, most of which is already complete, she scheduled our three days of home study appointments as well as our "education" weekend that we have to have.  Our fingerprint cards have been sent off.  SO.........  By the end of September, everything that we can do will be done.  We will then be waiting on our fingerprint background checks to come back in order to have our license number.

At that point we will be eligible for foster-adopt child placement.  Quite Literally, only God knows what will happen after that.  We could have children placed with us immediately or it could be an unknown length of time.

We have requested children 0-6 years of age, we are open to sibling groups.  Carter would like a 6 or 7 year old brother to play with, I would like a baby, we are praying that God will "bring the right children into our family."  

Today, I moved everything out of the "Creative Room" upstairs (spare bedroom) down two flights of stairs into the basement and designed and set up a new "Creative Room".  This creative room is much more spread out with more organization and space to move around and work.    

This picture was taken part way through the organization process. 

I finally get to use my gorgeous curtains that I got when I was in Haiti.  They look beautiful and cover the unfinished walls, giving me a beautiful space for creativity to flow. 

We now have a mostly empty extra room that is painted very feminine.  It was painted this way when we moved in.

So, we are on the journey of deciding what theme we want to decorate our "nursery".  Because of the broad possibility of ages and unknown gender, we need a neutral theme.

We will start by painting the walls a neutral color and putting in the necessary furniture, bed, dresser, etc.

How exciting and scary and nerve-wracking all at the same time.