I Can Breathe Again!

I feel such a weight lifted from my shoulders. Just knowing we are approved was a huge release of anticipation. I feel peaceful and motivated now. I feel like I can do anything. We have to make 3 Life Books for our case worker. Life Books are just a small scrapbook, about 7 or 8 pages, of our family, holidays, pets, fun stuff, or whatever we want. The case worker will give our book to other case workers looking for families for kids. If the child is old enough and is one we have showed interest in then they will get to look at the Life Book as well. We were told to make them as if a child will be viewing them. So it needs to be simple and fun. The child we adopt will get to keep the Life Book. I used to scrapbook, but soon got bored with it and have not done it in years. I started our Life Book when we had our homestudy and haven’t picked it up since. It’s been sitting in my living room for 2 ½ months incomplete. I just didn’t have the motivation. I think I can muster some up now! I didn’t realize I needed to make three of them so it will take a little time, but I hope with the kids help I can get it done tonight. It’s so hard to just pick a few pictures to represent our family. That is the hardest part. There are so many I want to use, but have to narrow it down. Heck, just pictures of all our animals are hard to squeeze on one page!
I have already sent a request for information to our case worker this morning for a child. I am not sure of her age. It says she is in 2nd grade, but according to her date of birth she should be in 5th grade. She looks about 7 or 8. I am not sure if that’s the case or it’s a typo. She is in Colorado. I would like to stay in Texas, but we did have an interest in this little girl. We will just have to see. Based on the minimal information at the moment it is hard to know.

We are very relaxed and excited…………….at this point! We had a great weekend and appreciate all of the support, excitement, congratulations, kind words and words of encouragement we received from everyone. It means so much to us!