Yeah, I’m pretty sure nobody read my last blog post, but that’s okay.  You can find it here.  Quite a bit has gone on since my last post.  Huge, massive changes that will change our lives significantly.  So I thought I would post.  I am motivated by the fact that my wife now has a blog.  She told me tonight that she’s had one for almost a week, but forgot to tell me.  I would be less surprised if she had said that the minivan exploded while I was at work and she had forgotten to tell me.  So if she is going to do it, then I can surely write, especially when writing thing is one my favorite pastimes. 

I discussed last time about how much I loved being a Dad.  About the time that I posted that entry I started praying-in ernest- about adoption.  It is an idea that had been rolling around in my mind for a very long time.  But I put it off.  I would mention it to my wife every once in awhile, but I was doing that pathetic-excuse-for-a-husband-thing and waiting for her to make a decision.  I’ve done that before, which was, in my own feeble way, an attempt to protect her.  After all, she would be doing a great deal of the work, so if she wanted to do it, she should just be the one to decide.  Right?  Um… no.  I’ve made this mistake before, like wanting her to stay home from work, but never telling her.  She is, after all, a pharmacist and I didn’t want her to give up her career.  But she cared more about our children than her own career and chose to stay home.  If I had only said something sooner, I would have done a much better job of protecting her, but instead I just said nothing.  But that is past, and I am learning how best to be a godly husband, and I think I’m getting better at it.

So, after fervent prayer, lots of advice, and a good deal of reading we have chosen to adopt!  We have two children already, but our lives need a couple more.  There are many reasons we have chosen to do this, and I think I will break down some reasons why in future posts.  I want to mention a book I am reading by Russell D. Moore called Adopted for Life which has done nothing but strengthen my decision.  If you have stumbled here because you are interested in adoption, I suggest taking a look at what he has to say.

We are just at the beginning stages.  We still have a long journey to go, and I can see why so many people say it is a journey.  So far our journey has included:

• Deciding to pray about adoption
• Deciding to adopt
• Deciding to adopt two children (preferably twins)
• Deciding to adopt from Russia
• Finding an agency
• Applying to the agency (We were approved)
• Finding an agency to do our home study
• Applying for approval to get a home study (That’s an application to apply for a home study application). (We were approved).
• Getting things notarized

And now we are in the process of home study.  So far we’ve gotten four things notarized, and I suspect we have about 2% of our noterized items completed. (I say that jokingly, but only a little bit…) 

If you read this, please pray that things will go smoothly.  So far everything has fallen into place, except for how we are going to pay for it.  I’m going to keep it short, so I won’t elaborate how we are stepping out into faith with paying for the entire thing, but let me say… things are falling into place in ways we couldn’t have foreseen.  The homestudy fees have been taken care of.  We didn’t see it coming.  It was not a gift from another person, it is something that just worked out with perfect timing.  I have a lot more to discuss, but more later!

And I promise it won’t be three months to my next post!