From day one of deciding to pursue adoption we have been told by many that this process will be a very long journey. Just getting qualified can take 4 - 6 months. Not to mention the LONG wait that can take place once you are qualified. We thought it would be another month before getting an appointment for our first Home Study Interview. However, the call came yesterday and we are scheduled for our first Home Study interview (and inspection of our home) next week.
Of course there has been excitement from the beginning. But this phone call has put it all into perspective. This IS going to happen. It is an overwhelmingly beautiful feeling to know that our child may already be out there.
With that being said, we also want to pause and respectfully acknowledge that making an adoption plan for your child is not something that is done lightly. This is why it is so important to us to find a birth family that truly wants to take this journey with us. Our child will forever link us to another family - our new "extended" family. Knowing the grief and pain that comes from losing a child, we want to convey that our goal is to keep our little one's birth family connected to him/her. Not only for the benefit of the little one but we want to help in anyway we can to ease the pain that may come from creating an adoption plan and placing your child.
In our lives when we face the unknown, be it something simple such as visiting a new country for the first time or complex like this adoption journey, we call it an Adventure. To us, the word 'Adventure' can sum up the emotions, apprehensions and excitement that bubbles up when facing something new.
Our new Adventure is finding you!
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| Visiting the Noguchi Museum |
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| Sean enjoying the beautiful sculptures at the Noguchi Museum |
This song sums up how we see adoption and explains how much love we are already feeling:
On another note:
Grammy came to visit us. So we got to be tourists in our own city!
Grammy is Sean's Mom
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| The Empire State Building |
We had a great time seeing Dames at Sea (including a backstage tour) & Something Rotten on Broadway with a pre-theatre cocktail at The Plaza Hotel. Sean and Grammy had a night out on the town at Birdland Jazz Club and enjoyed some pretty cool music. Of course we had brunch with our best friends and visited the Noguchi Museum with Grammy & Annie's sister. And you can't visit New York without shopping!
