After hitting the ground running at full speed with our adoption prep work, the last few weeks have felt as if we’re doing absolutely nothing. We were playing the waiting game – waiting for Rebekah’s doctor to send the letter to Nightlight, waiting for our home study report to be finished and arrive. The waiting will certainly try one’s patience. I know during the course of waiting that our nerves certainly were shot. However, now things feel like they are moving once again.

We received our home study report on Saturday afternoon, which was the final piece we were waiting for. We sent that out to Nightlight on Monday via UPS – so it should arrive on Wednesday morning. So, what’s next from here? More waiting…

We have one more interview with Nightlight on the phone to go over any changes in preferenes for donor parents, etc. and then they will start the matching process. During the matching process, Nightlight will send our family profile to genetic parents that fall within the criteria that we’ve specfied in our preferences. Once a family selects us to be adoptive parents then we’ll start moving toward the transfer of the embryos (which includes the transportation, thawing and implantation).

In the upcoming months our patience will certainly be tried. The matching process could take 2 weeks, a month or even 4 months or more. The biggest unknown for us at this point is knowing when our match will occur. We know the matching will happen in the Lord’s timing – we just have to be patient and let things happen in His timing. What we would certainly appreciate from all our friends and family out there are your prayers. Please pray for patience as we wait to be matched – that is the toughest part for us. Many of our friends and family are new parents or will soon be parents and sometimes it feels like we’re being left behind.

Thank you all for your prayers and we hope to join the league of parents soon!