Adoption Paperwork...Furniture...Strollers OH MY!

We have been busy little bees since our last update, so much has happened! First we choose an agency, Kinship Center, for several reasons; they have a great reputation, they will allow us to pursue both finding an expectant mother that is putting together her adoption plan while at the same time looking at foster/adopt, and finally location as they are 2 minutes from our home.

Once we decided that they were our agency of choice Norys got so excited her eyes were watering and Bobby was looking at her like she was nuts. But then, what else is new. HEE! HEE! :-)

We went to their office to drop off our initial paperwork on Monday and by Friday we received our second packet of paperwork to fill out. Saturday we filled out almost all of it with plans to complete it on Sunday evening. Well, we had some friends over for dinner and while sharing the paperwork with them a drink spilled all over every sheet in our packet. So Norys called first thing on Monday morning to request a new packet.

So we received the new packet on Tuesday but with Grandma Diane’s funeral, work and life we just finished our paperwork last Thursday. This time we made sure there were no liquids near it (lol). We made copies and sent it in the mail on Friday so they would have it first thing on Monday.

We are sad that Grandma Diane will never get a chance to meet our baby, as I know she would have been so excited. She was a wonderful, loving and witty lady that always made us smile. She will be sorely missed. She was eighty years old but with her personality she was more like 30 something because she was so with it. Norys and Diane shared a love of Danielle Steele books and since Diane read so fast Norys has a healthy collection now. Our cousin Stephanie has now taken Diane’s place in passing down the books that Norys will always treasure.

So, we said a lot has happened so here we go. Norys has been going everywhere looking at baby furniture, strollers, and car seats. She narrowed it down to what she liked then Bobby went with her and Norys was so happy. We picked out the furniture for the room, the stroller, car seat and Norys thinks she found the diaper changing station but wants to look a bit more to be sure. Norys even found a rug for the baby's room and for the living room that she wants to get so the baby doesn’t have to crawl on the wood floors.

Here are the things we have decided on this far: