3rd Draft and more

I hope everyone had a nice and safe Halloween.  Late last week we send over the 3rd draft of our Dear Birthmother letter to Sarah.  I believe the writing part is finalized.  Now we need a picture of Mike & I for the letter to complete it.  Our good friend Stephanie is helping us out by coming over later today to take pictures of us.  She takes beautiful photographs and I'm really excited to see how they turn out.

On Saturday we went to 1 of the 2 workshops that the Adoption Center of San Diego offers.  (The next one is later this month.)  The workshop was created to help adoptive parents understand the perspective of the birthmothers and to offer support on how to better have a relationship with our future adopted baby's birthmother.  It was 4 1/2 hours and very beneficial.

We begin our Support Group this Thursday.  It is offered the 1st Thursday of each month and it is for all adoptive parents, before and after adopting a baby.  I'll share more after we've attending the session.

If anyone has any questions or concerns about anything I'm sharing or have shared, PLEASE ask me or talk to me.  This was very foreign and unnerving to us early on, but as we take this journey it has been enlightening, comforting and reassuring that we've made the right decision to adopt and committed to the right adoption center.

Lastly, I want to share with you that an opportunity to adopt a baby that was due on December 15th arose early last week.  Mike was cautiously happy and I was cautiously ecstatic.  This opportunity came from a family member's friend's family member (I hope I didn't loose anyone on that one).  However, this person wanted a very closed and private adoption and I think she chose to go with her adoption center because we had a link to her family that she didn't want.  It was disheartening at first, however, that baby was not in God's plan for us.  But for all of your knowledge, if we come across someone who wants to gift their baby into adoption, then we are able to run that adoption through our adoption center.

Love & hugs,
Brenda