Christmas in March

After a month of nothing going on, finally this week some more progress! Big progress!!! Our 171-H arrived. For anyone not familiar, the 171-H is your approval form from the office of citizenship and immigration. You need their approval to adopt, and cannot send any paperwork overseas until you have it! Very big important paper it is! From what I have heard from some, the longest wait in the adoption process is waiting for the 171-H to arrive. Lets hope thats true! I dont know how many more long waits my little heart can take. This month of waiting was just awful! I was so afraid something would happen and we would be denied for some reason. Irrational on my part I know, but this means everything in the world to me, to us. This is how we are going to build our family, and knowing that our paperwork was sitting on some strangers desk for evaluation and approval when they dont know us from a hole in the ground was really tough!

I have said it before, and I'll say it again. I am really enjoying the adoption process. Compared to the nightmare that is the world of infertility treatment, this is a joy to work through. But sometimes it is just as difficult and painful as trying to conceive. No way is easy I guess. I just cant believe how much all of this trying to have a baby has changed me and the way I see things. I'll tell you, I'll never look at a family or a child the same way again. I'll never take a second for granted.

OK, so anyway, back to Christmas! The mailman brought us more things this week! Yesterday our Snoopy stuff came in the mail and its so impossibly cute! I just can not wait to get started on the nursery. I have all kinds of ideas going through my head about what to do in there!

Woo Hoo!!! We're gonna be a mommy and daddy!