It has been exactly 5 months and 18 days since we began our adoption journey! It does seem MUCH longer than that because we spent over a year praying and researching the perfect plan for our family. In early April we chose to begin our adoption journey through St. Elizabeth Foundation here in Baton Rouge. The first time we met with Ms. Teri (the director of SEF), Cody and I both had a peace about this organization and knew it was the right choice. We were SO excited to get started that we set up to begin our Home study process immediately. We were told it would take at least a month to be placed with a social worker to begin this process...this is when the miracles began! Not even two weeks later we received a phone call from Ms. Mary, our social worker. Our first meeting was set for June 8th. We were completely finished with our home study by the end of July. In July, we began our Family Photo Book/Portfolio and Birth Mother Letter. The Family Photo Book is what birth mothers will look at when choosing an adoptive family. Cody and I put a lot of heart into making this book, but even more heart went into our birth mother letter. I can't tell you how many drafts we wrote, threw away, and wrote again! We wanted this letter to express our personalities, beliefs, and emotions perfectly- and that was pretty tough to do in a letter. After about a month of working on the letter it was finally complete! Paperwork, home study, photo book, and birth mother letter - all complete...now we WAIT...for God's PERFECT timing! It's not always easy to WAIT...I struggle with this weekly...But with God, ALL things are possible! :-)
In God's Hands-
Whitney :-)
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