Our home study has been approved! Loads of paperwork, background checks, physicals, references and visits with our case worker have helped determine that we are indeed fit to be parents. Whoopee! We now move in to the waiting phase where we wait for a birth mom to find us and choose us. There's no way to predict the timeline. And so we enter this season with much patience and excited anticipation for what is to come. We can't wait to be parents and have a little one to hold and take care of, to teach and watch grow. We can't wait to blow up people's newsfeeds with cute kid sayings and adorable photos.
Interestingly enough, about 50% of recent adoptions through our agency are matches between birth parents and adoptive parents matching themselves, and not through the agency. With that in mind, we're hoping to market ourselves (as weird as that sounds) to find a birth mom that is looking for a couple to adopt her baby. We've created cards to help advertise this, if you'd like to receive one, let us know!
Here's a few photos from our most recent "Rent-a-Blumenshine." We recruited Rony (a good friend that we met while at the office in India who is here for several months of training) to help us with this job! One of Megan's co-workers hired us to help do some cleanup on an apt that he's renovating. We cleared out debris, sanded a door, removed a pocket door, painted trim, removed and cleaned up a very dirty stove and to top it off, the co-worker's wife brought over a meal and we discovered that she and Megan worked at Cascade Bay way back in the day!
Interestingly enough, about 50% of recent adoptions through our agency are matches between birth parents and adoptive parents matching themselves, and not through the agency. With that in mind, we're hoping to market ourselves (as weird as that sounds) to find a birth mom that is looking for a couple to adopt her baby. We've created cards to help advertise this, if you'd like to receive one, let us know!
Here's a few photos from our most recent "Rent-a-Blumenshine." We recruited Rony (a good friend that we met while at the office in India who is here for several months of training) to help us with this job! One of Megan's co-workers hired us to help do some cleanup on an apt that he's renovating. We cleared out debris, sanded a door, removed a pocket door, painted trim, removed and cleaned up a very dirty stove and to top it off, the co-worker's wife brought over a meal and we discovered that she and Megan worked at Cascade Bay way back in the day!