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the first trimester

Instead of Facebook pics of my baby bump, morning sickness, and frequent updates and searches on how my baby is growing inside of me, I have PAPERWORK!!! It's quite overwhelming, but I guess because we are still so new in the process, it is all still very exciting to me.
Im so sorry that it has been sooooo long since my last post. We are officially moved to a new city (Go Warriors!) and settled into ALL God is doing in our lives and our ministry here. So, with that settlization (that's not a real word, i know) comes picking up the adoption paperwork, emails, and online courses again! We sent off our 2nd set of paper work a few weeks ago, along with our initial payment.
And today, we were contacted by our social worker, Amber, and we will be starting our home study very soon!
My heart is leaping with excitement! The thought of going to Wal Mart and buying an accordian folder for all my adoption paperwork is the equivilant of the excitement I had with each dr.'s appointment I had during pregnancy!
Adoption has brought so much perspective and joy in my life already, and we have barely started!
I promise, I will keep you informed each step of the way, and keep a look out, we are going to be launching into our first fundraising opportunites in the Fall! :)
Thank you so much for your prayers and support!

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