Preparing to Adopt :: Week 7

Here is where we are. This is not where we expected to be, but yet this is where God has brought us.

We are in our house. We have the room for our children. We even have one of the rooms put together. However, we are still transitioning, still making this house a home.

Beyond that we are also in the midst of an upcoming transition (hopefully in the next couple of weeks) for Michael’s job.

These situations put us in a somewhat chaotic and unsettled life right now.

Therefore, we are going to continue to make out house a home. We are going to pray that Michael gets a new job very soon. However, we are not going to push through this process any further until Michael’s job situation changes.

We want to be able to offer a home that is peaceful and consistent and stable for our children. Part of that is because our life (and theirs) will he changing so drastically and we want to make sure we are in a place where we can handle the changes and stress without being pushed overboard and burnout. The other part is because a stable life is going to be important to thriving as a family, especially in the beginning.

So, we aren’t sure what exactly this is going to mean as far as a time line. Once Michael gets a new job (hopefully in the next couple of weeks) we will continue to move forward as quickly as possible. I still hope that will mean a placement by Christmas, but you just never really know.

I will be taking a break from this weekly updates during the month on October, because I will be talking about waiting for the entire month and conveniently we will be waiting for Michael’s job situation to change before moving further. Don’t worry though I will document any progress we have in October and plan to share starting again in November.

Waiting has been close to my heart, and I want to wait well. It’s funny (not really, more God’s master plan probably) that while I spend a whole month talking on the topic, I will be living in the midst of it.