Epiphany: Adoption is a PROCESS.

Update: our homestudy visit is scheduled (!) for Wednesday, March 24 at 2 p.m. We're also "supposed" to hear from the Bethany embryo department this week or next to talk about next steps. We've signed up for 5 live web chats that we have to participate in. The last one cannot be done until first part of May, so it is looking like early-mid May is the earliest the transfer could happen. Can I repeat my epiphany: this is a PROCESS. An annoying, cumbersome, burdensome, four-letter-word PROCESS. Sigh. Trying to not let the drudgery of the process curb my enthusiasm. How do you think I'm doing so far?

Still feel a peace that this is what we're supposed to be doing -- again, whether it works or not. God wants us on this road. We hope and pray there is a baby bump that will come out of it, but if not, it was an interesting ride, and we'll go back to the much more familiar and needle-free domestic infant path.

This last weekend I had the joy of meeting a friend who has done embryo adoption successfully and has a beautiful 6 month little baby boy named Caedmon. Good to know the PROCESS works. Tygh also got to meet her and see the baby boy and realize that even frozen snow babies turn out just fine.

Still on the NEDC wait list, although for no particular reason other than that they won't refund the $200 fee that we had to pay to get on the list. So, I'm spiting myself alone I'm sure by just staying on the darn list. I'm stubborn like that.

We've started working on Brae's "big boy" room, and by "working on it" all that means is that about 3 weeks ago I started blue taping the room. Have not done anything to it since. And yet I'm realizing that he has outgrown his baby room and quickly need to get on it. His latest adventure is that he has learned how to open doors. The pantry door is his favorite for obvious reasons. He particularly likes to get the dog biscuits out, and one by one take a biscuit out and mercilessly tease Norm and Lilith as he runs around the house holding the biscuits in his hand and mouth. Eventually, he'll slow down long enough to place one biscuit on the floor, to which Norm and Lilith leap upon, and then the game continues with him running around the house with dog biscuits. Better than scissors, I suppose.