Packing, Waiting, Waiting, Packing

Foster Care/Adoption Update:

We have nothing left to do!  Our resource worker and the state people still have stuff to do... but we have nothing left to do except MOVE! 

We wrote our biographies, we handed in copies of our bills, and now we MOVE and WAIT!

Those two words don't often go together... moving and waiting.  On one hand we are very busy as we are packing, organizing, cleaning, throwing stuff out and on the other hand time seems to be standing still as we wait.  Isn't September over yet? Isn't it time to move yet?  The summer flew by and now September feels like an eternity as we wait. 

mov·ing

/ˈmuvɪŋ/ Show Spelle[moo-ving]  

adjective

1. capable of or having movement: a moving object. 

2. causing or producing motion.

3. involved in changing the location of possessions, a residence, office, etc.: moving expenses. 

wait·ing

/ˈweɪtɪŋ/ Show Spelled[wey-ting]  

noun

1. a period of waiting; pause, interval, or delay.

 

These two words seem to be opposites and yet this is the very state we are in. Moving and Waiting.

 

We are in an outward state of 'movement' and an inward state of 'pause, interval delay'.  With this inward state of 'pause', I know God wants us to be peaceful with the peace that only He can give.

 

Adoption is truly a mind blowing subject when you think about it.....  Almost all of the time we are met with positive reactions as we share our journey with others.  Of course we are so thankful for the support and love and encouraging words. Over the years when anyone has shared with me that they are adopting my response is always, 'that's so awesome!".   and it is awesome... but it is lined with sadness as well.  In order for a child to be adopted, in essence they have had to be rejected. This is not the case in all adoptions because there are circumstances when a birth mother chooses adoption, but in our case of adopting through foster care there is a lot of pain and awful circumstances surrounding it.  I am already grieving with my future children. I am already feeling some of this pain for them.  It's probably best that I process this now, so that I can help my future children process it in the future.

 

Just like moving and waiting are two things that can co-exist, so is the awesomeness and awfulness that surrounds adoption through foster care.  

 

I am reminded of how God is called the Lion and the Lamb-  two animals that are completely different in nature.   There are so many other examples in life of things that are opposites.  There is beauty in this.      

 

So we peacefully move... and we peacefully wait.

 

We are moving!

Time for an update!

This summer has been a whirlwind! And it doesn't look like the wind is stopping anytime soon... which is ok , because we are moving to a house!

A house = bedrooms where our future children can sleep!
= a washing machine and dryer, no more laundromat!
= a yard for our dog and future children to play!
= a yard to grow flowers and plants and herbs!
= a front stoop to decorate for every season!

Can you tell I'm excited?

I'm very thankful for the time we have had in our little apartment. I'm thankful for the neighbor friends we have made. But it's time folks! Time to fly the coup!

Foster care/Adoption update: we are in the home stretch. :)

Our classes are done. We have met a few times with our state worker to do the Home Study, & we only have a few things left to do.
Our state worker will send the Home Study to Trenton, we will move at the end of the month,a state officer comes to approve of our new digs and then we wait to be officially licenced!

The goal and the hope is that we will be  officially licensed by the end of October.

Please continue to keep us in prayer!