waiting equals patience

Hello friends and family!
It is update time again. Although things with the adoption look the same regarding to where we are in life, in the process, it seems for both of us, that things are moving along. We have had some downs lately but recently have been extremly optomistic.

All things take time, sometimes are patience is worn thin, but it will all come through in the end the way it is sapose to. As we talked about in one of our first blogs regarding foster adoption, often times, kids in the foster system, behave differently than other kids their age. Having patience and learning how to cope with the waiting, and the issues regarding being a "waiting family" help us to experience more patience. This is a learning experience, and will help us in the long run when we are parenting a child that need more patience in general.

This last month or so, we have been thinking pretty hard about how to make our homestudy stand out. Sometimes, when a homestudy is sent, we have no idea if it has even been read. The workers get a lot of studies for each child that is being inquired in. We decided to add a cover letter with a picture of us. The letter focuses on who we are, what we believe, where were are in life, marriage, and location. It also discusses why we believe staying open and in contact to loved ones of the children is important. Of course, the picture on the letter of us, is us decked out in Red Sox gear, as I am sure most of you would have already guessed.

We are going to make up a couple sheets of pictures of family and where we live. This makes sense to me, because having a picture to look at and go with what is being read, makes it more real.

On another note, work is busy for Matt. He continues to post to the field and is now being put up for flight chief, which is a cool responsibility, and he will do great! Kasey is busy in school, and is learning so much about muscles and their functions, its nuts. We are both so thankful to be doing things we love for work. What great support we have in our lives in all we do, including the adoption process. Also, today we celebrate our 7 year wedding anniversary!


SO, thats the news for now. We continue to inquire in children from all over the United States. We also, have some hopes for things to work out in a couple seperate situations. We truly believe, that all the prayers being said are doing amazing things for this process. We can feel it! We love you all soooo much!