Back From a Much Needed Vacation

We're back from the beach! It is so hard to come home from vacation isn't it? Especially when the weather was in the mid 80s all week and the ocean was nice and refreshing! We had one rainy/cloudy day, but that was spent going to lunch, shopping, and napping. The rest of the week was spent at the beach, in the pool, or in the hot tub. What more could you ask for from a vacation?

There were 10 of us at the house, plus our nephew Noah. He had fun swimming in the pool, splashing in the surf, and digging in the sand. Plus he was the cool kid on the beach in these shades.


So now it is back to work for both of us! I'm starting in Hanover County as a Special Education teacher tomorrow! Where did the summer go? Where ever it went, it went too fast!

No updates on the adoption since my last entry...we'll keep you posted! We did want to share a couple of pictures from our beach vacation though!

The Waiting Begins

We have finally completed our home study! We have completed all of our interviews, turned in all of our paper work and now we get to wait. Our last appointment went well. Our social worked came to our house and completed the interview portion, then took a little tour of our house. I cleaned and cleaned the house for a 5 minute tour of the house. Oh well, at least the house it clean:-) This is probably the cleanest the house has ever been the day before heading on vacation. At least we'll come home from the beach to a clean house!

At our appointment, we turned in our "Dear Birthmother" letter. That was by far one of the hardest things I have ever had to do. How do you put your life in a one page letter to be accompanied by just one picture? I think we must have revised each paragraph at east four times! After a while we realized that we couldn't continue to analyze every word of our letter. We just had to trust that we painted a small, but honest picture of our life together. Thank you to all that proofread it for us and weighed in on picture and wording choice! We couldn't have completed this step without you guys. Here is the picture that we decided on. I'm not going to post our letter here, but if you'd like to read it we'd me more than happy to share it with you. Just shoot me an e-mail.


So now we wait. Wait to meet with a birthmother, wait for the baby to be born, wait to bring our bundle of joy home. We might not have a lot to report on for a while, but as soon as we have anything to report you better believe we will pass the information along! If you check back often you might just be reading about Scott and I, but hopefully after a while, you'll be reading about the new baby Gerke!