Domestic Adoption?

Well, I just got off the phone with our attorney once again and she's convinced me that a domestic adoption is in our future and within our reach ~~ once again. She's been extremely patient with us, answering our questions without hesitation, and offering her advice on everything. We were very luck to find her and are thankful to have her in our corner.

So, what do we do now? Well, before I do anything, I have to sit and have another conversation with Bob to see if we want to go ahead with this, which I'm fairly sure he'll agree to. Once I've cleared that hurdle, I'll go ahead and start creating our "Parent Profile". This is the short letter that will get posted on various websites for potential birthparents to read. Hopefully, someone will read our letter and decide we are the family they want to raise their child.

Nina (our lawyer) always makes me hopeful that this can happen; however, there are no guarantees, which I'm well aware of. She told me a story of a new couple that put their letter out there about 3 months ago, and they've already been chosen by a woman located in Pennsylvania who is 14 weeks pregnant. Nina says she hopes we could be so lucky.

In other news ....

We haven't heard anything more on the China adoption. We're waiting for all the dust to settle (literally) to see how the earthquake is going to affect anything. We've been told that the "one child" policy has been lifted so I'm not sure where that will leave us. Only time will tell.

Shania is doing well. We were out to see Dr. Lachhar about a week ago and he was happy with how her surgery went. He told us to start exercising her to build up that muscle in her hip again. We've been trying to walk her every night a little bit to do this. Hopefully, we can move our bed back into the bedroom where it belongs within a few weeks! My back will be ever so thankful!

There's nothing new to report on the school front. I did test out of one academic class and passed so that's one less thing to worry about. I applied for a Trainee Court Reporter position and have been asked to come in for an interview. If this works out, I can start getting some experience under my belt before I even leave school.

I have to say that Bob is a wonderful man. He's taken on the responsibility of supporting our little family while I concentrate on school. We've been living on his salary alone since early January. I don't know how he does it with all the bills that keep getting thrown at us but I am so thankful that he's putting up with this situation. My hope is to be able to repay him once I become an official reporter, or shall I say a freelance reporter (which is what I really want to do).

That about wraps it up for now. If anything new develops, I'll certainly let everyone know.

Be well and enjoy the heat!!!

Until next time, I'm signing off.

F