The "Dear Birth Mother" letter is final and approved

After a week of edits and layout changes, our letter is finally approved and will soon be published on the Kirsh & Kirsh website. Thanks to Steve Kirsh and his son Josh for all the help given to make our letter special and unique. You will soon be able to view it at http://www.indianaadoption.com/ It will be under the "View families waiting to adopt" section. for now, I posted the .pdf version here on this blog. Click here to see it. Once we have the direct link we will post it on this blog. Thanks for all the prayers and best wishes. This is an exciting time and we look forward to what God has planned for us.

We did it!

We finally finished the Dear Birth Mother Letter, and words can't express what I am feeling right now. I knew I would feel relief. I knew I would feel excitement. I knew there would be a hint of fear. I knew I would feel accomplished. If only I had known how emotional this would be, maybe I would have prepared more. Honestly, though, how do you prepare more?

We sent it off to Steve, and, of course, the email bounced back. God truly is teaching me patience. Today we are closer than we were yesterday and tomorrow we will be closer than we are today.

I honestly can't wait until the day when we get to bring our baby (or babies) home. That day will make all of the waiting worth it.

I'm overwhelmed...

Happy Mother's Day! It is hard to believe that someday I, myself, will be a mother. The thought is overwhelming in so many ways.

When we started this process, I told myself that I wouldn't allow myself to get overwhelmed. This process is in God's hands, and I need to trust in him. I continually struggle with my "control freak" tendencies (I'm only human) and continue to pray for patience and acceptance of God's time because he is right, true and just.

There are only three things standing in the way of our family growing in numbers:

1. Our homestudy: We submitted everything to our social worker over four weeks ago and still haven't received the rough draft.

2. Our DBM (Dear Birth Mother Letter): We have been working on it for the past several weeks, but continue to struggle with finding the words to say how much this process means.

3. Being chosen: This could take days, weeks, months or years to happen.

Of these three things, the only thing I can control or take responsibility for is number 2. We need to finish our letter. We need to speak from our hearts. We need to speak to our unborn child.

We need to pray for God to give us the words and focus on what is within our reach.