Meeting two

This past monday Jan.30th Judy came to visit our home. She was a good excuse to really clean my house. And boy oh boy did we clean. My house has never been this clean..so feel free to stop over now haha. =) When Judy arrived we dicussed things like where hospitals and fire and police departments were..if we were going to use private or public schools..and safety questions like do we have a smoke detector in each bedroom and so on. It went very well and she asked about how we would discipline our child and other questions. Cousin Josh even got some questions as it was mantory for him to be present bc he is living at home with us. He did a great job and im honored that he loves us so much. Next Step: meeting with our case worker Linda for more questions to be answered one on one and then together( march sometime)
If u could pray with me for our future birth mother. That would be great!

meeting one (jan. 9th)

We went to syracuse to our first adoption meeting at New Hope. It went very well! We went a day early and stayed over night bc the meeting was at 9am. We arrived (on time of course) and headed in and was greeted my Judy (the director of new hope) She took us to a room that was filled with 5 other couples that are doing the same process as us. We listened to Judy talk till 12. Then Eli and i went to friendly's for lunch and it was a good time for us to debrief on everything we just heard. The main thing we talked about actually was how i was looking at this from a different angle. I was hearing what Judy was saying from the adopted child point of view as well as an adoptive parent view. It was crazy to think that this is the place my birth parents went to and that we were in the same building as they were in when they were deciding to put me up for adoption. Its crazy that my parents were in this building making the same plans as we are now deciding to adopt. It was very over whelming for me but a good over whelming =)
After lunch we met with our case worker Linda.  She was awesome. We really connected with her and it was a great, pretty quick meeting. She asked us questions about our selves and went over paperwork that we have bought with us. Then we were on our way home. It felt good to start with this homestudy and we are just steps closer to getting our dream come true. Thanks for your prayers.