Profile is Complete

We have been asked if we have heard anything in regards to our adoption, so here is our latest updated information - -

On June 25, we received our paper copy of our profile in the mail.  After looking through it, we asked if a couple of changes could be made to our profile, as the front picture was blurry and there were a couple of typos.  They emailed us back yet that night and told us that they would make the changes and then send us another copy. 

On June 27, our 14th anniversary, we received an email from Angel Adoption that the corrections had been made and our copy was in the mail to us.  We received the copy today and it looks great!!  I am so excited!  I will post some pictures below of what the paper profile looks like  - - even though I know you probably won't be able to read what it says, hopefully it will give you an idea of what it looks like.

Front cover

Middle pages

Back page

Insert front - -chart that compares what Skeeter and I's favorite things are in certain categories

 

Insert back - - letter to birth mother

  

Here is a link to our online profile in case you would be interested in sharing with someone you know that might be interested in placing their child for adoption.

http://www.angeladoptioninc.com/component/option,com_family/Itemid,138/id,486/view,detail/

Thanks for continuing to pray!

Entering a New Prayer Phase

Last night we posted about receiving a call from Angel Adoption in regards to our profile being completed.  I was under the impression that since they told Skeeter that they would be sending us a profile to look over to see if any changes needed to be made that we would not be going active until we "approved" the profile. 

Today we received an email from Angel Adoption and part of the email said:

Now that your profile is completed, we are going to start sending

 it out to potential birthmothers. 

YAY!!  We finally get to go active, even if we haven't seen our profile yet - -
Skeeter was told over the phone what changes had been made so I'm sure it will be fine!  It is so exciting to be finally taking the next step and for once have someone be serious about showing us to prospective birth mothers.  So will you be in prayer with us as we enter into this new phase, that God will be working already in the hearts of the birth mothers that will be shown our profile and that God will just make it distinctly clear which birth mother will be a part of our forever family?  We will be hearing status updates every 2-3 weeks from what I understand as to how many birth mothers have viewed our profile, both paper and on the web so now we just ......sit back and wait and pray (easiser said than done at times).

One Step Closer

On June 5 (our last post), we sent in our 'baby' for the workers to put our profile together.  On Friday, June 8, we received an email stating that they had received our disc.  Have I mentioned how much I love their communication with us? :)  On June 14, I called them to see if they had received our home study from our social worker - - YES!! they had!  That in and of itself is a huge answer to prayer.  Now when our profile is ready to be active, we can be shown not only through paper profiles, but also go active with an online profile. :)

Today, we received the call that our profile was DONE!!  They will have a paper copy sent to us and will go out in tomorrow's mail, so hopefully early next week, we will have our profile in hand.  We are to proof it and then get back with Angel Adoption and then my understanding is that we will then go ACTIVE to be shown to prospective birth parents!!

There are times when this process seems like it is taking forever and that we have practically "wasted" a year of our time with our other social worker.   But we know that God is in control and I am anxious to see what His plans are for our family.  Thank you for praying!!

Sent Off Our 'Baby' Tonight

Yesterday and today we have been busy compiling pictures, answering questions and writing a birth mother letter.  We then were able to burn these important items onto a disc - -"our baby".   Tonight, we were able to drop off our baby into the mail to Angel Adoption, Inc. :)  Now, unless they have something else that they need us to do, they should have all the information they need to build our profile and begin showing us to prospective birth parents.

Our 'Baby'

We are also praising the Lord, that one of our social workers appears to be trying to get our home study to Angel Adoption, which is HUGE for this agency to move this quickly! :)  Thanks for praying!

We finished off the evening by celebrating and going to get some ice cream cones. :)

Full Speed Ahead with Angel Adoption

After last week, we were wondering where God was leading us in regards to working with Angel Adoption.  After our contact with our social worker with a possible lead, we followed up, almost daily with our social worker, and each day we got the same response, she hadn't been able to follow up with the birth mother yet.  So after prayer and discussion, I contacted Angel Adoption this morning to find out if we could even get our money back if this birth mother did pan out.  We could not -- so there is our answer!! 

So, this week, we will be working on trying to get all the information together to send to Angel Adoption so that they can officially start advertising for us.  I have contacted our social worker and asked her to stop showing others our profile and to let her know we will contact her if we need their help with the legal side of finalizing our adoption.  I also told her we need our home study sent to Angel Adoption. :D 

So thankful for God's clear cut answer!!  Now we will get busy, so we can let Angel Adoption do their work and then we can both watch and see how God works!  Hope you all have a great week!