Here's our profile on parentprofiles.com and Gladney Center for adoption. We're out on the internet advertising!!!
http://www.adoptionsbygladney.com/html/parents/karenjoel/index.html
http://www.parentprofiles.com/profiles/db21559.html
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
How's the adoption process going?
As of today, October 23, 2007, we are in the pool. The first time we heard the term "in the pool" was at the 'Parent Prep 1 Adoption Seminar'. Essentially that means we have finished all the paper work, cleared all criminal background checks, passed the home visit, officially approved to be adoptive parents, and are in the waiting pool with all the other cleared parents. We've been in the pool for about 2 months now. We are trying to balance the anxiousness of not hearing anything and savoring the life of a DINK (Double Income No Kids). It's a tough balancing act but we are coping.
So we are consuming ourselves with work, training and vacationing. Within the last few weeks, we spent a long weekend in San Fran/Napa Valley, Karen ran the Army 10 miler, I was in Vegas for a fight, I'm running the Marine Corps Marathon this coming weekend, and we are going to Nevis next week for some sun. We gotta keep ourselves busy!
So we are consuming ourselves with work, training and vacationing. Within the last few weeks, we spent a long weekend in San Fran/Napa Valley, Karen ran the Army 10 miler, I was in Vegas for a fight, I'm running the Marine Corps Marathon this coming weekend, and we are going to Nevis next week for some sun. We gotta keep ourselves busy!
A personal request...
Here is the letter that many of you may have received from us. If you know of somebody looking for an adoption plan for their child, feel free to forward on.
Joel
Dear Family and Friends:
We are excited to share with you our plans to build our family through adoption. As many of you know we have been talking for a long time about bringing a child into our home. It has been quite an emotional journey getting to this point in our lives, and now we are ready to proceed toward a fulfilling future. We have done a great deal of preparation and research about the adoption process and have discovered that, in the United States, most newborn children are placed for adoption through "independent", or "private" adoption.
"Independent", or "private", adoption means that as a first step we will be searching on our own for a birth mother who has an unplanned pregnancy and who wishes to make an adoption plan for her child. The adoption laws in Virginia indicate that anyone can help us locate a birth mother, and we have learned from the experience of others that birth mothers and adoptive parents often connect through word of mouth. As such we are reaching out to as many people as we can to ask them to keep us in mind if they learn of a pregnant woman who wishes to make an adoption plan. We write to you today for this purpose, we hope that you can help us in this way.
If you know of a birth mother who wishes to make an adoption plan, please don't hesitate to tell us about her and her about us. We would love to answer any questions that you may have - feel free to contact us directly. You may also feel free to pass on our first names and the following email address: kjadoption@gmail.com to the birth mother should she be interested in contacting us. Additionally, feel free to forward this email to any of your family or friends that you believe may help support our effort.
We thank you for keeping us in mind and supporting us as we start this journey.
Karen and Joel
Joel
Dear Family and Friends:
We are excited to share with you our plans to build our family through adoption. As many of you know we have been talking for a long time about bringing a child into our home. It has been quite an emotional journey getting to this point in our lives, and now we are ready to proceed toward a fulfilling future. We have done a great deal of preparation and research about the adoption process and have discovered that, in the United States, most newborn children are placed for adoption through "independent", or "private" adoption.
"Independent", or "private", adoption means that as a first step we will be searching on our own for a birth mother who has an unplanned pregnancy and who wishes to make an adoption plan for her child. The adoption laws in Virginia indicate that anyone can help us locate a birth mother, and we have learned from the experience of others that birth mothers and adoptive parents often connect through word of mouth. As such we are reaching out to as many people as we can to ask them to keep us in mind if they learn of a pregnant woman who wishes to make an adoption plan. We write to you today for this purpose, we hope that you can help us in this way.
If you know of a birth mother who wishes to make an adoption plan, please don't hesitate to tell us about her and her about us. We would love to answer any questions that you may have - feel free to contact us directly. You may also feel free to pass on our first names and the following email address: kjadoption@gmail.com to the birth mother should she be interested in contacting us. Additionally, feel free to forward this email to any of your family or friends that you believe may help support our effort.
We thank you for keeping us in mind and supporting us as we start this journey.
Karen and Joel
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