Hi to all our scraping Family and Friends,
I just wanted to remind all that the due date for regisration and money for the Scrapbooking fundraiser my mom is organizing for Joe and I is due this week on Sept 5 in order to guarantee your spot. Please contact myself or my mother if you have any questions, but I hope to see you all there, it is going to be a really fun day.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Our Bi-Weekly email Update!
Hello to all our friends and family,
Today we received our email update from Isabel. Not much to report, but currently there are 9 birth mother's with our agency and all of them have been matched with a family. Joe and I are kind of relieved with this as one of the birth mothers was due in less then 4 weeks and she was looking at our profile. Joe and I just didn't think we could be ready in 4 weeks, although we kept telling our selves if she did chose us it was because god felt that this little bundle would of been meant for us and he would of provided us what we would of needed to be prepared. We are just looking at everyday as another day to build up our adoption account and be better prepared to give our child a better life.
We are currently working on the nursery though, we were going to wait until we had our referral, but all the reading I have done said to start before, that it will help keep us busy, and we will feel more prepared, especially if we were to get a spontaneous referral. So as of last weekend my dad [papa] came over and dry-walled off the pocket door, so we are working on mudding and sanding that, and hopefully be able to start painting this weekend.
I would also like to thank all of you for your compliments and input with this web page, we have had a few ask how to leave comments for us..... at the end of each blog there is the word comment in green and all you have to do is click it and it will allow you to write a comment to us.
Hope everyone is well....
Love Joe, Traci and Sargent
Today we received our email update from Isabel. Not much to report, but currently there are 9 birth mother's with our agency and all of them have been matched with a family. Joe and I are kind of relieved with this as one of the birth mothers was due in less then 4 weeks and she was looking at our profile. Joe and I just didn't think we could be ready in 4 weeks, although we kept telling our selves if she did chose us it was because god felt that this little bundle would of been meant for us and he would of provided us what we would of needed to be prepared. We are just looking at everyday as another day to build up our adoption account and be better prepared to give our child a better life.
We are currently working on the nursery though, we were going to wait until we had our referral, but all the reading I have done said to start before, that it will help keep us busy, and we will feel more prepared, especially if we were to get a spontaneous referral. So as of last weekend my dad [papa] came over and dry-walled off the pocket door, so we are working on mudding and sanding that, and hopefully be able to start painting this weekend.
I would also like to thank all of you for your compliments and input with this web page, we have had a few ask how to leave comments for us..... at the end of each blog there is the word comment in green and all you have to do is click it and it will allow you to write a comment to us.
Hope everyone is well....
Love Joe, Traci and Sargent
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Welcome to our Journey!
Hi to all of our friends and family!!
Joe and I wanted to start a web page to help journal our adoption journey, and thought it would be a lot of fun to share it with all of you, and with having family and friends in multiple states we figured this would be an easy way for everyone to keep up to date on our journey. I have to admit though, I have never been any good at keeping up journals, so if you visit the site and there has not been an update in a while please bug me to update. So here we go with our first blog......
Joe and I have chosen to do a domestic adoption, and have chosen to use an agency located in both Nevada and Utah. The reason for choosing an out of state agency was based on two reasons, the first is Utah and Nevada's adoption laws are more in favor of the adopting parents, and agency fees are on a sliding scale, which means they base our fees on our income. Joe and I breezed through the application and home studies, we both were shock at how fast we completed this because we were told to expect it to take several months, well it really only took a little over a month, but it was a stressful month. Joe and I have been officially waiting for our referral since the end of June, and when I say we are waiting for a referral we are waiting for a birthmother to select us to be her newborn baby's adoptive parents, and she does this by looking through what is called a lifebook, which is a scrapbook that Joe and I have made of our life, which includes pictures of us, our family, Sargent, and all our friends, and a Dear Birthmother letter [a personal letter written to the birthmother telling her about us]. Isabelle [our social working] stated that it can take an average 5 to 18 months to receive a referral. We recieve bi-weekly emails from Isabelle informing us of all the birthmothers that are currently with our agency and which ones have our lifebook, which I absolutely love because it gives us something to look forward to and helps break up the what could be a very long wait. So while Joe and I are waiting for our referral we are keeping ourselves busy by slowly starting to work on the nursery and have been doing a lot of discussing on what changes we are going to need to make once we bring home baby Marleau.
Along with working on the nursery we are planning our next fundraiser, which is being hosted by my mother Lisa. This fundraiser is a scrapbooking fundraiser and will be held on Sept. 26th. Please email me or my mom for the information if you are interested. There is also a ton of you that have asked us to do the caramel pretzels again, so we are tentatively talking about doing this for Halloween, I will keep everyone updated and let you know when I will need pre-orders by. We want to again thank everyone for coming out to our bowling fundraiser a few weeks ago, it was such a huge success and we all had a lot of fun, also thank you to everyone for all your garage sale donations, and to those who donated there time to help, we do still have a long way to go, but Joe and I feel blessed to have all of our family and friends to help us.
Till our next update..............
Love,
Joe, Traci and Sargie
Joe and I wanted to start a web page to help journal our adoption journey, and thought it would be a lot of fun to share it with all of you, and with having family and friends in multiple states we figured this would be an easy way for everyone to keep up to date on our journey. I have to admit though, I have never been any good at keeping up journals, so if you visit the site and there has not been an update in a while please bug me to update. So here we go with our first blog......
Joe and I have chosen to do a domestic adoption, and have chosen to use an agency located in both Nevada and Utah. The reason for choosing an out of state agency was based on two reasons, the first is Utah and Nevada's adoption laws are more in favor of the adopting parents, and agency fees are on a sliding scale, which means they base our fees on our income. Joe and I breezed through the application and home studies, we both were shock at how fast we completed this because we were told to expect it to take several months, well it really only took a little over a month, but it was a stressful month. Joe and I have been officially waiting for our referral since the end of June, and when I say we are waiting for a referral we are waiting for a birthmother to select us to be her newborn baby's adoptive parents, and she does this by looking through what is called a lifebook, which is a scrapbook that Joe and I have made of our life, which includes pictures of us, our family, Sargent, and all our friends, and a Dear Birthmother letter [a personal letter written to the birthmother telling her about us]. Isabelle [our social working] stated that it can take an average 5 to 18 months to receive a referral. We recieve bi-weekly emails from Isabelle informing us of all the birthmothers that are currently with our agency and which ones have our lifebook, which I absolutely love because it gives us something to look forward to and helps break up the what could be a very long wait. So while Joe and I are waiting for our referral we are keeping ourselves busy by slowly starting to work on the nursery and have been doing a lot of discussing on what changes we are going to need to make once we bring home baby Marleau.
Along with working on the nursery we are planning our next fundraiser, which is being hosted by my mother Lisa. This fundraiser is a scrapbooking fundraiser and will be held on Sept. 26th. Please email me or my mom for the information if you are interested. There is also a ton of you that have asked us to do the caramel pretzels again, so we are tentatively talking about doing this for Halloween, I will keep everyone updated and let you know when I will need pre-orders by. We want to again thank everyone for coming out to our bowling fundraiser a few weeks ago, it was such a huge success and we all had a lot of fun, also thank you to everyone for all your garage sale donations, and to those who donated there time to help, we do still have a long way to go, but Joe and I feel blessed to have all of our family and friends to help us.
Till our next update..............
Love,
Joe, Traci and Sargie
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