Our most recent adoption journey has been so every changing. It seemed like every time I would post something regarding our adoption, it would change again. I just stopped talking about it because I felt like I looked crazy. We started out planning to go to China or Kyrgyzstan for a little girl. We then decided to adopt a little boy locally from Oklahoma. Oklahoma company cancels our adoption when they find out we are moving with the military. Find a new company and are now waiting for a little boy?...no...girl?...no...twins...why not! Oh and where is the baby coming from? I don't know...somewhere in the US is all I can tell you. With no one to talk to, I felt alone and searched and searched for information and felt even more alone. Occasionally I would stumble upon some gem of information, but more often than not I would only find a picture of a doggy or kitty.
I am a Google queen...and I have had a hard time finding the information I needed to prepare me for this Domestic Adoption of our little baby...somethings (seriously we have no idea boy/girl or how many) I would stumble upon a few nuggets of awesomeness such as my new BFF Nia Vardalos. Seriously, if I ever meet her in person I will never let her go. Not because of her fame, but because of her heart for adoption and her transparency of her journey.
At the end of her book she dedicated a portion to some brief information of different adoption or foster options. Not everything was spot on, but I loved the spirit of her desire to help people with any information she had gathered along her long journey.
I have been trying to find information everywhere. I felt like what I was being offered was fluff. I wanted a detailed list of what an adoptive mother should bring to the hospital and got information like "bring something to do". Really...bring clothes for the kid? I might be stuck in a hospital in a foreign state for 2 weeks and your nugget of information is magazines.
Easy going is not a word that anyone would use to explain me. My family calls me "The Furor" because I plan and prep with such fury...every scenario or possibility planned for and counter planned. And God called me to grow my family through one of the most uncontrollable experiences possible. So I am going to try to be a helpful source to those out there. We have successfully been through one international adoption, currently going through a domestic adoption, planning on foster adopting, and eventually back overseas again. I don't claim to have the answers, but can offer the over the top info that I find and accumulate.
