Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day! It's cold and very snowy here...we got 12 inches of snow yesterday and I just finished shoveling. I'm thinking a snow blower might be a great Valentine's Gift this year. I won't even post here what he bought on Ebay this morning. Suffice it to say, it wasn't a gift for me. :-) I'm also curious to see if my Valentine brings home cabbage to cook for dinner again this year. Seems cabbage has become our romantic Valentine tradition. :-)

Lots happening in our adoption journey to catch you up on! While on vacation in Atlanta last week, I called the Adoption Support Center to tell them we've decided to work with them and wanted to get started. Yeah! We are doing a Plan 1 domestic adoption which means we will be matched with a caucasion child or one who is caucasion and part Hispanic/Asian/Native American. There are 3 parts to the home study process. The first part, the 2 hour office interview, is coming up next week on Feb. 21...so fast! I need to have lots and lots of paperwork filled out and gathered by then. Looks like I'll be spending most of my time paperchasing this week. Step 2 is a full day seminar at the adoption center with other adoptive couples. We'll be going on March 9 for this part. The final part is the home visit and that should be mid March sometime. Then as soon as all the paperwork is in and has been approved, we'll be "activated" and start being shown to birthmothers. We're hoping to be activated by early April at the latest. I'm a bit nervous about all the paperwork though. We have to have background checks from the counties we've lived in in the last 5 years. For me, that means contacting 4 different counties...yikes! I'm so glad I moved to Atlanta but gheesh....Ah well, it's part of the puzzle of adoption paper work. We are very excited to be moving forward!