Mondays...

Mondays are our day off.  So - today is the day when we crank out adoption stuff!  (plus puppy stuff, house stuff, laundry stuff,...  you get the picture)  Today, we started the day with blood work for the home study.  My veins usually don't like to share.  But, thankfully, I got a really good tech today!  Only 1 poke and I was good to go.  What a huge relief!  Over the past year of infertility crud, I've come to understand the plight of pincushions.  I'm really hoping this will be the last blood draw for a good long time.  Cory, of course, had no problem.  His veins pop-out like a relief map.

We did our physicals last week.  We had to find a new doctor, so it was the first visit with Dr. N.  His daughter is adopted.  It has really begun to amaze me how adoptees & adoptive parents are everywhere!  I love it!  :)  Adoption is such a huge deal, but at the same time - its just a part of life.  So many people all around us have been touched by adoption.

The same thing happened when we started telling people about our infertility.  Women would share their story with me or their daughters or sisters or ...   We were at a Casting Crowns concert on Friday night.  (Totally awesome!) and Mark Hall reminded us how Satan loves to make us feel like we're "the only one".  We're the only one to experience or struggle with fill-in-the-blank.  When in actuality - there people all around us experiencing the same stuff.  I've come to know this more and more lately...

We have to write our autobiographies and then we'll be able to schedule our next home study appointment #3.  Then - all that's left is our fourth appointment - which will be here at our house.  Checking our basements/attics/etc.  I'll be a cleaning machine!  (If anyone is bored and feels like painting kitchen cabinets or scrubbing bird poop off the sides of houses...  let me know!!!)  We also have to get our profile books done.  Which are kinda like scrapbooks explaining how incredibly wonderful Cory and I are!  haha. 

So - I'm off to write a paper - the first one since college.  Thankfully, I know a lot about the subject matter.