Adoption Update

Many of you know that we are trying to adopt a baby from Guatemala. We currently have an orphaned baby identified for us and a lawyer in Guatemala has power of attorney to arrange the adoption.

The baby girl (I’m not calling her “our baby” yet – things can still go wrong) was born on November 20th. We have pictures, though I’m not posting them yet. Right now I feel about the same way you feel when you just find out you are pregnant. You want to wait a while before you tell people in case something goes wrong.

But on the plus side, my wife isn’t throwing up like she did when she was pregnant.

Right now we are in total waiting mode. After a flurry of activity to get all our paperwork together, it’s weird to be doing nothing. We will get periodic updates on the baby, but that’s about it.

Guatemalan adoptions typically take 6-7 months from the time the baby is identified, so we are looking at June or July. But nothing is certain in adoptions, so we are trying not to get too excited yet.

But that’s easier said than done…