Its been a while since I have posted on here.
Nothing new in the fertility world... I keep hoping and praying for God to bless us in His time, not ours. You would think after 5 1/2 yrs I would be used to this... but I'm not. It hasn't gotten harder, or easier, just about has stayed the same. Please be praying for us because it just is something that will never leave... that we can't have a biological child. Yes, God does perform miracles EVERYDAY... and we are holding onto hope for one, but you never know the plans He has for us...
With our embryo adoption/donation we learned a lot. We learned about our faith, ourselves, how to lean on each other and that there are people who really care and have hope for us. We got to know a great couple and a great group of doctors. I was thankful for that opportunity, as hard as it was in the end.
Travis & I decided to start back up with adoption. We decided to start the MAPP training to become foster parents. We started the classes last year but stopped after a few weeks because we just did not feel it was the right thing to do at that time. I feel much more at ease with things now, and am ready to help out a child's life. I am not sure that we will be able to accept a child for a short period of time and watch him/her go back to their home, where I will be unsure about their well-being but I will pray my heart out before every decision we make. We are going into it with the intentions to eventually adopt. We will get our foster care license and then attempt to work with an agency in NC. If a child comes up for adoption in the foster care system, that'd be great too! We will just go with the flow and see where God leads us. I found a few great opportunities for fundraising that I do not have to buy anything ahead of time that I will be sharing in another post. We did great with the bracelet fundraiser, and still have some if people need to/want to purchase any (just let me know). Since the embryo adoption/donation took a lot of our adoption funds (the transfer, an attorney, counseling, Dr appts, shipment of embryos, storage, meds, etc) we will need to start fundraising over again if we want to work with an agency. I understand that if we want to adopt via foster care, it is basically free to us, but we wanted to have some saved for when/if we need to use an agency. I know if we are meant to adopt through an agency, the funds will come. After we have our home study we can apply for grants to help with the process. Its all in God's time... and we will keep in prayer for our child...
Since I am the type of person who has to plan EVERYTHING, I have already started planning our house, and our future child's room, for the home study. Thanks to my awesome parents we have the furniture for the child's room (we have had this since last year, just haven't put much of it together) and I already have thoughts of how I want it to look (in my mind, and possibly my Pinterest board-;)). Since we do not know if we will have a boy or girl, an infant or toddler or even more than one child, we are preparing the room to fit an infant and toddler and gender specific. We just finished our kitchen over the summer and I really like how it turned out!!! Travis did a GREAT job! We also bought the floor for our bedroom so we can finally get rid of that dreaded white carpet. Other than that, there isn't much we can do before bc there has to be a certain amount of time in between our physicals and when we are done w/ everything (something like that. lol).
Classes started back. Enough said! ha ha. I am taking 2 classes this year at Western Carolina for my B-K degree. I have about 6 more classes left and then about 3 to finish up my concentration (which is Child Development). I hope that finishing school will open up new opportunities for Travis & I. We'll see. The classes are going okay, they just started last week though. I am taking Health and Wellness and Child Psychology. I think they will both help me out with my job and my personal life :).
I have also started calorie counting (thanks mom!) and hopefully will be able to lose some weight, we'll see. I really need to get back into better shape and become healthier so when I do become a mom, I'm not a fat mom that wont play w her kids. Lol.
Other than all that... nothing much going on. I'm ready for fall, cooler weather, the holidays and family time :).
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