Quick Update

I am hard at work getting our paperwork together to send off with our Application to Embryos Alive. I have most of the information together and we are working on getting our "Dear Genetic Parent" letters and family profile together to send out for matching with a donor family. The paperwork is the long and monotonous part of adoption; I am looking forward to prenatal vitamins and maternity clothes! I know this is a necessary step, so I will persevere! We need to get an updated family picture for our adoption file, so hopefully I will be really on the ball and send a copy to all of our family and friends! Cross your fingers! This morning I overheard Zeke and Autumn practicing their "baby songs" to sing to the new baby; so cute! I am glad that we are all looking forward to this together. We have decided to adopt through Embryos Alive in Ohio. We will get our application in to them and the matching process will start right away. We will choose available embryos that we are interested in and our profile will be sent for their family to review. If they choose our file, we will get contracts to sign. If the match is confirmed, we will have two weeks to get in the remaining paperwork for our dossier and any outstanding fees. Once all that is taken care of, the match will be confirmed and we will start the process with a fertility clinic for the transfer. This whole process can take many months....or it could go fairly quickly depending on the match and our financial abilities. I am, of course, optimistic as usual. Maybe we'll have special news by Christmas! (I hoope maybe even sooner...)