finally getting paperwork from poland

well, we have waited since May for paperwork and its gonna be here tomorrow. finally.  lets hope we can get it turned in and get it back asap so we can be one step closer to bringing our son home!

still waiting on paperwork in between trips.

OK, its been a while since I've posted. We saw our son in May and so it has been 4 months since we returned. We really were hoping for paperwork from Poland a while ago, but it seems to be really slow right now in between trips.
But, we got an update we might have our paperwork in next weeks and possible travel in October or November depending. So it was a good update. I just really want my baby boy! Fingers crossed it works out n we have him.home for Christmas!

in hiatus

I turned 33 yesterday. I realized it has been a while since I wrote and updated. What better time than when I'm a year wiser :). So here goes..

When we traveled back from Poland I had a rough time adjusting to the time change with no sleep, airplane food and who knows what else so I got sick, yep, airplane bathrooms are really quite lovely (jk).  Well, after calling out of work an extra day or two and thinking I had some virus or bug we took a test. We meaning I and test meaning Yup, we found out we were pregnant!  Can you believe it? After years of trying and then finding our beautiful son in Poland we find out God has blessed us with a second child.   We ate so lucky to be where we are!

OK, onto the next subject...
My inlaws moved in with us. Not sure if I've blogged about this already, but they are awesome! We built out our garage and they have been wonderful and are so excited for everything and can't wait to meet their grandson from Poland!
So we have started updating our home study for all the changes we have going on. Doing more paperwork, of course.

We are waiting on Poland to send us the paperwork after our first trip for us to start getting everything dine to go back and pick up our son. Only thing is now we are a lite worried about timelines since I am pregnant now and at a certain point won't be able to travel so fingers crossed we get to go before things get complicated.  I know God has a plan but it still is hard to not worry.

seeing our son. 1st trip

We arrived in Katowice, got picked up n driven to see our hotel. Met Magda the next morning and she finds out our son is doing respitory therapy 3 hours away! So we didn't get to see him that day. The next day when then got picked up again and dru end 3 hours to where he is. Finally we get to see him. He's so tiny n perfect n beautiful. We played for hours. Then next day (today) we came back. Yesterday there were nurses who spoke English.. Today nope. Lol. But there is a lady stating here who speaks polish and Spanish of all things so she is a godsend helping us ho from my husband seeking Spanish n translating to polish.

traveling soon and other updates

we got travel dates, we are traveling soon to see our baby.  wootwoot! we get to see him 4 days! which is awesome. we have found videos and pictures of him because a famous singer has shed light on our orphanage in the past year and he was there so we feel very very blessed to have those we can watch. our family and friends are so supportive and excited and its the most wonderful feeling now. cant wait to see whats next in this journey. cant wait to meet my son! it is absolutely amazing you can have such feelings and love and connection to someone you havent met yet but the feeling is awesome and every time i see him in pictures he lights my world!

we bought a couple Polish dictionary and phrasebook to take with us. ive also been reading on the second adoption book we bought a while back. we are also getting so much help and advice from people in the agency group. the best resource ever are those who have lived or are living it to get advice and connect. i am making good friends with some people from our agency, it is really cool.  i want our son to have connections to Poland and those he maybe knew at the orphanage thru his life.

we've been matched to our baby boy!!

We got the phone call we have been waiting for !! We are parents ! More to come when we know... Feeling blessed.

Fundraiser brainstorming

Better late than never to start fundraising. I have a few really awesome friends and family who are going to help me figure out things to do for fundraising.  I have mixed feelings because I do not want people to think we are asking or begging for money because we knew the monetary implication when starting the adoption but at the same time many people so fundraise, as it can help in small ways for those little expenses. So, I have some great people who want to help and are looking into different parties to help and then they want to do a yard/bake sale which i said I totally need help with as I am not sure how to go about the bake sale part of things. Thank goodness for those close people in my life/our life who you know are true true friends. Thank you to all those who are excited for me and wanting to help!!!!!!!!