Progress

We are finally starting to see some progress with the preliminary stuff for the adoption. We have so much going on, I have felt like I am drowning.
In order to pay for the adoption, we are refinancing our house. We submitted the paperwork on November 22, and now over two months later, we still haven't closed. It has been one thing after another, but we should finally be closing within a few days. We have also been shopping around for homeowners insurance since we have realized we have been paying way to much for the last 7 years. We finally narrowed it down and made a decision on that today.
We have now done the home study, and she wasn't kidding when she said she would know everything about us except our underwear size. However, with all the information she has on us, she should be able to figure that out. Before she got here Eric asked me if she would want to know our weight. I laughed cause I thought surely not. Well guess what, she did.
The profile is another project we've been working on. We have been taking pictures, which Eric hates doing. We are supposed to have "action" pictures, and it makes him mad we are just posing like we are doing stuff we really aren't doing. Well, it is dead of winter, and we just aren't getting out there going fishing, but we posed like we were to take pictures. We have submitted our "Dear Birth Parent" letter, and it has been approved. This letter will be broken up into sections throughout our profile telling about us and how we plan to raise a child. We have ordered scrapbook software, and once that comes in, I hope it won't take long to put it all together.
All of these things were started back in November and December, but just in the last week it is all finally coming together. Timing is everything, and I believe God has a reason for all these things dragging along and now all of a sudden we are making progress. I know a lot of you have been praying for us and the child we will adopt. Please continue to pray as God leads us to the birth mother who will give us the ultimate gift anyone could give us, a family.