Our Adoption Blog

The year is not over, but the way time is going these days, I will probably wait too long to get this up if I don’t post it now..

I think that this is first year of my entire life that I could step back and say “This year was about ….[insert something here]“. Of course our something is the adoption. It really has been all encompassing and while we had hoped that 2007 would not be about the adoption [process] but about the parenting…

Back in January, we had to put everything on hold — you will remember this post : I Popped the Clutch

We got back on track faster then we thought we would, but then discovered that there is a whole process of waiting during the paperchase that you don’t get any control of… :Still Going

During March, the adoption was put on hold because some close friends of ours were having really serious medical problems.. Helping them became first priority in our lives, and while these blog entires never made it here on the adoptoin blog, they have found their way here now :
Scariest Place on Earth

Finally in April we were able to have our dossier approved for authentication by the agency … : Authentication

But we also realized that I am not the most coherent person in the world when I am excited… LOL : Tales of a Moron

May was also exciting, for the blog, since we got rid of the black and went with orange and we opened to the public. For a long time we required people to sign up to read the blog, but eventually I wanted to cut down on the maintenance of the blog and give more people an oppurtunity to join the fun.

June and July were the months of special note though…. We got great news from our agency in the first part tof June : Dossier Approved!

Then in July…. We’re Logged In!

Of course, after being logged in we realized it was time to start getting the house ready for our baby so it was off to ikea, and what ended getting up being quite a story…How Ikea Ruined my Weekend

August served as a 1 year anniversary from when we began the process of adoption, and nothing happened.. we waited, we worked on the house and we wondered when we would hear about our baby…. All the while the referral process slowed down more and more…

In September we made our lives about the Backyard (which still isn’t finished… ) : Our Backyard

October was a difficult month for me…. When we began in August of 2005, we figured about 13 months from beginning to referral, so we had planned on being in China October or November of 2006.. Whether that was reasonable or not doesn’t matter any more since it didn’t happen. Of course, for our friends who have been with us through the whole process, they began to wonder as well… So :Still waiting

So in November the wait was really getting to me… Ruminations

So we stopped waiting… well not really, but we did start doing some things to get our minds off of it… Disneyland, San Diego, and Las Vegas… It was a busy busy month…

All of November

So now it is December… 2006 is coming to an end … we’re still waiting, along with hundreds of other perspective parents. It is difficult, be totally worth it. But Like I said in November :

2007

So as we begin a new year, stay with us, things are bound to be more exciting then ever this year….