Tuesday, October 4, 2011

October 4, 2011 - Home Study Meet Up

Tonight we met Susie Herrmann for our first home study.  After going to the wrong Panera Bread restaurant, we finally met her and talked for about 1.5 hours!  She was so amazing to talk to about adoption.  She had some great advice such as buying 18 souvineers while in Taiwan and giving our child 1 gift on their “gotcha” day.  Their “gotcha day” would be celebrated on the day we adopted them :) as we would also celebrate their actual birthday.  I thought that was such a creative idea!  We went over all the criteria and the things we need to get done to wrap up the home study.  She is coming back at the end of the month and I am so excited to finish this, but I am also trying to soak it all in too and enjoy the process.  I think it really hit us that we are “adopting” after our talk with Susie.  We have been ready for so long and it’s becoming so real!  We’ve always felt like we were in a situation where “if” it happens it will be so great, but we are finally starting to feel like “when” it happens it will be wonderful.  God is just filling me with more faith every day.  We came away feeling so blessed to be working with Susie! God is good.

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