When Waiting Causes Worry {and other un-fun feelings}

Our family started the adoption process 14 months ago. We are still waiting for our baby to join our family. We have put in our names for a baby 5 times in the last 3 months, only to have the birth Mom choose another family.

The last time we had only a week from when we requested our profile to be shown to the birth Mother to the time the baby was scheduled to be born, so the kids and I did some shopping, just in case.

We bought diapers, teeny tiny socks, a soft elephant rattle and a diaper bag. We looked at different bottles and I made a colorful hat to bring "baby sister" home in... {Read more}