Whoa Nelly!

Remember how I said once our adoption homework and scrapbook are finished, we can schedule a home study? Well, we aren't done yet, but we have a date for a home study! Eek! I know, you 're thinking, WHAT? (Any of you who have heard Brayden say this, insert sound effect here.) That's what we were thinking too when St. Elizabeth called us to set a date. It's complete craziness. Nothing happened all summer and now it is happening all at once! We are incredibly excited because this is the last step of the whole process, we just weren't quite ready yet. So, the homework is done. Good news, right? Right. But the scrapbook isn't even started. Bad news, right? Well... that's why we have Shelby. Anyway, September 22nd is the big day. Pray for us!

Adoption Meeting Info

Just a quick update about our adoption meeting on Wednesday. It was at our agency in Indianapolis. Besides us there were 10 other couples and a single woman there. It lasted all day, but we learned a lot. Mandi took 4 pages of notes and Michael asked several good questions. We now have lots of "homework" to do. Both of us have to do an autobiography in essay format (Michael's thrilled about that!) and fill out a questionnaire. Then we also have to make a scrapbook. It includes pictures of us and our lives. This is how a birth mother chooses us to adopt her baby. So, as soon as our "homework" and scrapbook are complete, we can schedule a home study. Needless to say, we've been working very hard on all of this to get as much done as possible before school starts on Monday!