Approved!

"It is ordered that the above named applicants are certified as acceptable to adopt children pursuant to the laws of the State of Arizona."

Our home study was submitted and approved by the courts LIGHTNING fast! We got our official paperwork back from the courts before our social worker even had a chance to call us with the good news! Now that we are approved we can start to apply for grants which is great! We are close to raising our goal amount and hopefully we can get a few grants to help us reach it.

We have been working diligently on our match letter since my last post. We actually didn't rush right out and finish it in a few days like the old me would have made us do. Some parts were easy and some parts were really difficult. Oddly enough, we had a hard time writing about each other! God was working in the hearts of our friends, Jose and Ale, though! They asked our closest friends if they would like to help us write about each other by emailing little snippets about us. They composed one email and left it all anonymous. I cried when I read it. Jose, Ale and our anonymous friends, you are the reason we were able to write anything substantial at all! My heart swells with love for you guys! Our letter is now in the hands of a very qualified professional and we are freaking excited to see how it turns out!

When we started this process we knew that there were going to be hard times and that it wasn't going to go fast and smooth. I prayed A LOT for patience and I feel like God delivered me from my rush to do things now and go go go. When something needs to be done, I've already got it done or I'll just do it myself to make it happen. Definitely in some regards, that's still me. But with this process, its been different. I feel like I'm taking this at a slower pace. Perhaps that's good, this is a HUGE life decision after all...