Sooooo... What are you doing?

I decided to do a blog post about what our current plans actually are. I have received this question from several different people and thought that this might be the easiest way to answer this question. I don't actually know if that many people are reading this blog, but I figured it was worth a shot :).

We are currently pursuing adoption through the agency or through private adoption. We are also doing foster care for the sake of doing foster care. If the child that God has picked out for our family comes through foster care, that would be great! But we also understand that the primary focus of foster care is to reunite the children with their birth families when they are able to do so. I read on an adoption blog who was quoting another adoption blog (how's that for confusing?) that God never designed this child for our family. He designed them to be with their birth family. We are a distant plan B. This makes sense to me. We are seeking to adopt a child because we know that we are meeting a need for the birth family, and for the child. We are leaving our options open as to how this will happen because we just don't know how it is going to happen.

So, for the time being we are still pursuing our adoption home study through the agency, A New Beginning. We are also pursuing our foster licensing through the state of Idaho so that we can do foster care. We are preparing for the situation where we would be placed through the agency because that is the "worst case" scenario as far as how much money is involved. Not that it is the scenario we don't want, we just want to make sure that we have made every effort to plan for that so that if that time comes, we can write the check and leave the hospital with our new little one!

That being said, we have sort of taken to selling everything from Pampered Chef, to re-purposed drinking glasses, to our possessions. We just sold our living room furniture. A friend made the comment the other day "I like your furniture, have you ever thought about selling it?" I know she meant this jokingly and we laughed about it and moved on with the conversation. But then I just couldn't get the comment out of my mind. We could buy something cheap to replace it and put the extra in our adoption fund... So I asked Jayson thinking he would tell me I was nuts and that would be the end of it. Much to my surprise, he was all excited about the idea! So now I am sitting here looking at an empty room with a freshly washed floor (because I really had no excuse not wash it now), pondering this new development.

I think my mom thinks we are crazy :). We probably are. But, if in the next few months you find yourself thinking "Self, I wish I had _____. I wonder where I could get it cheap?" Try giving us a call, we may have it and be willing to sell it to you :).

-Andrea