Staying Positive through the Process

More adoption paperwork. More Filing out grants.

With a regular workday and the up keep you have to do for your own relationship , these are the times you request that there are more hours in a day.

I keep reminding myself that the work it will take to gain our baby will be worth it when we finally get to see his or hers face. But can I tell you the truth. The wait is hard someday’s so forgive me if I am not on my A game personality or shinning smile, yet God sends things to my husband and I to encourage us through it all.

The other day we were watching America’s Got Talent and a young man got up to sing. Deep green eyes , singing with all of his soul, telling his story through his words and the strums on his guitar.

They showed his life story and he said that he was put in foster care due to his parents not being the best and it was hard during the years of waiting for someone to come adopt him and love him. He said that he would smile at anyone that would come through the foster care doors for the hopes he would soon be adopted. He felt like unwanted luggage. Until one day…..he met the person who would adopt him and that changed his world completely.

The term “unwanted” hit me so hard. The tears were running down my face as I saw him hug his mom after his performance. She was so proud! She was crying, he was crying and I was crying and my husband was somewhere walking around the house LOL.

That story amongst others continue to give me the hope to press forward until our baby is here in our arms.

My friend who is going through adoption also encouraged me to write the good times down and the things that encourage me about the adoption process so I can reflect on those things when the roller coasters come because they will come.