A No Update Update

We’ve got no news. There’s nothing to report. No baby is coming tomorrow (that we know of). No birthmothers are pouring over our book this weekend (that we know of).

We get a lot of questions from people about how the process is going. It’s going exactly as it should and we’re grateful. There’s a big lull once the money is worked out and the paperwork is completed and approved. There are minor quarterly trainings and monthly (or so) phone calls from our caseworker to check in, but that’s it. We go about our daily lives trying to live in the balance of knowing a baby could come tomorrow, or maybe next year.  There’s joy, there’s longing, there’s hope. More hope the second time around, for sure.

I think a lot about needing to post just to update all our amazing supporters on what’s happening but there’s just nothing happening as far as our adoption goes. Nothing’s supposed to be happening for now.

The past couple of weeks I’ve received a surge of photos of people wearing their Family is More Than Blood tees. Honestly it came on the heels of me wondering if people remember, if they like their shirts, if they’re wearing them, etc. It was a very real morale boost and I’m thankful for more than just the fundraising. You tee people are the very realest kind of wonderful. You’re the kind of people who change the world by learning about adoption and loving it openly.

I re-read my last blog post tonight and tears streamed down my face. At the beginning of every adoption story there is loss, grief, confusion, fear, and pain. Not so with this child. Yes, those things will be part of his or her story, there’s no escaping it. But the very beginning of my sweet baby’s story is scores and scores of people planning, praying, waiting, and loving. Before a single heartbreak can happen there is immeasurable love. Before he or she can be “unplanned,” we have been planning. All of us.

So keep changing the world one adoption at a time. Give, support, pray, plan, love, and adopt.

And to the waiting parents–it’s our privilege to plan and wait with you, too.