Happy New Year's!!

Happy New Year's!! Jerrod and I are very excited for 2012...hoping for BIG changes!! We wanted to thank everyone who has taken the time to visit our site and especially those that have become followers and that have shared our blog on facebook...every bit of exposure helps us to become parents! Although we are very excited to be going through adoption, it wasn't always the plan! We had tried for 2 years to have our own children, but infertility on my part kept us from having our own. Well, that...and it apparently wasn't God's plan! :) We now have dreams of a baby that we will love and cherish and also possibly grow our family with the birth parents too! It was a strange concept to us...open adoption, but we have learned so much already that our views and thoughts of our relationship with the birth parents has formed to mean anything! it could be letters and pictures or the baby or meeting them here and there during the year. We are ready to do whatever is best for the baby-to-be. We started this journey thinking about international adoption because we really wanted a closed relationship...but then we had a change of heart! We really want to give a child in the U.S. a great home with lots of love and support! We also decided the possibility of having the birth parents involved helps our child to have a sense of identity...quite a change, right?! Like I said...we have learned sooo much through LSS! We also would like people to know that we are home study approved...they say that's important to pass along! We had no idea what to expect when it came to the 'home inspection'...in fact we cleaned like crazy people! I thought Jerrod was going to kill me over light fixtures! :) But, our social worker was great!! She makes things so laid back and she is so easy to talk to! We are thankful that she is here to guide us through the process! Well, I just wanted to help get everyone up to speed...and a bit more understanding on where we are at with everything!! More to come! Hope you all have a safe and Happy New Year! May 2012 bring you many blessings!