We attended our orientation meeting yesterday at the Buckner office in Longview. We were in the company of three other couples for 3.5 hours. The meeting went by quickly and made us even more excited about adding a child to our family.
Since we've been through the adoption process before, it seems sort of redundant to have to go through all of these meetings again. As we sat at lunch before the meeting, we both said that we kind of feel like we know what it's all about. However, it is important for us to go to these meetings, especially since we adopted Sedah in a different state and with a different agency. A lot of the information is the same, but we also learned a lot of new things.
We walked away from this meeting thinking about the baby that God is preparing for us. As we watched a video of some parents talking about open adoption, the mother made a great statement. She said, "We are advocates for open adoption because it's grounded in truth. There are no secrets to hide. Secrets are based on fear." For both Sedah and the little one we will bring home, we believe that open adoption will provide a well-balanced sense of identity as they grow older.
A second child is a long way off (18-24 months). We did hear that there are only five couples in Buckner's system for domestic infant adoption, so we are coming in at a good time. Our next step is to begin filling out a lot of paperwork - applications, fingerprints, interviews, and reference checks. We'll also be starting our fundraising. We will be selling wooden flower pots that Jeremiah will be making. We'll post more info about that soon.
If you get a chance, check out Buckner's website at www.buckner.org.
Thanks for praying,
Jeremiah, Amanda, and Hesedah
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