October 22, 2009

The SWAN(Statewide Adoption Network) that we're working through to get our daughter has a new service with Diakom Lutheran services.  Diakom can get a little more detailed information on children up for adoption in PA.  They can't give us a printed copy or as detailed info like our agent can get but they can give the info over the phone.  So I was able to get a little bit more detailed info on two of the girls we're interested in.  We're still interested in them and are still waiting for the detailed reports or at least to find out if we're even being considered for one of them.  That's hard not knowing if we're even being considered.  But it's all in God's timing and His timing is not mine.  This process has been a wonderful lesson on patience.  Some days I sort of have to remove myself mentally, so to speak, from the process -- not think about it for a few days because otherwise I start to drive myself nuts.  I keep busy enough though with my boys, my daycare kids, the girls we "borrow" for a day, and my eBay duties with the school.  I don't know how childless couples endure this waiting period without a child in their house!  I guess they throw themselves into their jobs.