Back to Business as Usual

Well, we survived the flood. In 36 hours we recorded 13.5 inches of rain. And then we had a more gentle rain on Sunday. Nice to see the grass greening up a bit. Afraid it won't be a very colorful fall due to the drought. Anyhow, we are now headed for fall fun. We have an oyster roast in a couple of weeks and we have been training for the Wicked 10K race in Virginia Beach on October 30th. We did 4.5 miles on Saturday and felt pretty good afterwards.

We had a bit of action on the adoption front in September. We sent out 3 parent profiles in early September. We didn't hear anything until I got an email from one of the agencies a couple of weeks ago. They had a mother who was interested in placing her child for adoption. It was a different one from the one we had responded to originally.

Later that night the social worker called my cell phone. I was a little leery after the last experience we had. But she just let us know that we could access the adoption info online and to let her know if we were interested the next day. After our last experience, I was amazed at the information this agency made available to us. There were plenty of pictures of the mother and a little more medical information than I felt comfortable with seeing. In the end, she needed more financial help than we were able to provide and we had to let the agency know. The social worker's response was very kind. And she said she would keep our profile on file.

I was so amazed and relieved. This experience has helped heal my faith in the adoption process and also made me know to trust my instinct more.

We also had an email from our agency announcing a waiting family town hall. Apparently they would discuss ways for waiting families to help themselves during the wait to be matched. We had discussed going, but Hunter already had a meeting he could not get out of, so we decided not to go. Today at work, he said one of his co-workers asked if we were attending the meeting. Hunter said he gave his co-worker a funny look. To which the co-worker explained that he and his wife had also signed with the same agency last March and they had decided to go tonight.

We were amazed to find out a couple we know are looking to adopt and using the same agency as us. I told Hunter that it's so nice to know we have another couple that we can compare notes with. I have said before that our story through infertility and now, adoption, is not any more remarkable than any other couple. But it can be a lonely time. Over the last year and a half I have been comforted by so many in the blogger world sharing their experiences of adoption. But it has been especially nice over the last year to have found a few other couples close to home in different stages of the adoption process to share our experiences with.