Zander's Story...Part 2

So I didn't get back to the story the next week. Oops! But I am back now and here is Part 2 of Zander's Story.

When last left off, we had transferred our adoption profile from the Denver, Colorado office to our now Idaho office. This was in June of 2008. We bought a home and began to remodel, which helped us put the adoption "out of site, out of mind", so to speak. Sometimes its easier to be busy, so that everyday you are not reminded of the "waiting" period.

Sometime in mid July, Carl and I were working on the house and needed a break. We took off to grab a bite to eat for lunch. May I paint a pretty little picture: Carl and I in our grubbies, hat on head, no makeup (for me at least, ha) and just dirty, dirty, dirty. We are eating in a fast food restaurant and my cell phone rings. No thought, I pick it up. It was our caseworker saying that there was a birthmother considering us, but she was also looking at several other families.

Both Carl and I began to cry, right there in the restaurant. With the way we looked, I am sure people around us thought maybe we were homeless and at "rock bottom", when really we had hope. We were being considered. That's when it all felt real, again.

I have a little guy that needs my attention right now and a daughter that wants some attention too. So, this will be another break from the story. I will not wait so long for the next one, this time.

Zander's Adoption Story

This one is close to my heart because Zander is our son. Our story really begins on 26 of July 2008.

A little history: After we adopted Kya, we knew we would want to adopt again, but of course we decided to wait until she was one year old. On her first birthday, I asked my husband..."so, are we going to get our paperwork going now?" We both decided to wait a little bit. Carl was just finishing grad school and we had been applying for jobs. So we thought it best to wait until we find a job and settle somewhere.

When Carl and I were married, and shortly after he decided on a degree for his career (before children were even in the picture) we always talked about places we would want to live. The only place we could agree on was Colorado. So that always stuck with us. Carl was offered a job in Colorado Springs, CO in the summer of 2007, the summer Kya turned 1.

We made the move to Colorado in October of 2007. Found a town house and began to set roots. Of course in November of 2007 we started our paperwork for another adoption. We went through the process of paperwork, decisions, classes, backgrounds checks and the whole works from start to finish again in Denver, CO this time. We were approved in March of 2008.

About this same time Carl was offered his job in Idaho again, they wanted him back. And we explored options of opening a business in Idaho, plus, family is in Idaho. So we decided to make the move back home near family. We hadn't heard from any birthmoms at this point.

We moved in June 2008.

I had a blog set up for birthmoms to go to and learn more about our family. I tried to update weekly, mostly with our Friday Night Date/Family Nights. Well, with the move and so many other things going on, I had neglected the blog.

We transferred our adoption profile to the office in Idaho and then began to wait, again.

This is where I will stop my story and continue next week with....the rest of the story. I will also post a seperate post on Placement. This is kind of a ceremonial act of "placing" the baby in the adoptive home, or parents arms, really.

Until next week

My name is Mindy, my husband I have been married for almost 4 years and have been TTC for just over 2 years. We are still working with the doctors but I feel like it's taking forever and we are not sure how long it will take. The last I heard from my doctor was "depending on your thyroid problem, we will most likely have to get you on medication for at least a year before we can start trying to get you pregnant". On our long drive home from the doctors office my husband and I realized that it could be a very long time before we could get pregnant, because there was no guarantee that I could even get pregnant after that year was up. So that is when we had opened our minds and our hearts towards adoption. And words can't even express how excited I am about or decision, I know it is the right thing for us! Since then we have been filling out all the paperwork through LDS family services. If anyone would like to keep up on our journey, I would love to share it... www.randmsorenson.blogspot.com

I just want to say thank you to all those who have shared their adoption stories, they are such an inspiration and a support to me!
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(Blog Hostess: We support you 110% Mindy. You are in our prayers.)

Great Video of Adoption.

We are in the middle of experience a new story, which I will share in a few days or so. I recently came accross this video, that we happened to be in...love it. Check it out!

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