I am so glad this month is over. It was by far the longest month ever - today we have officially less than 4 months until the due date! I can't wait until August when I go back to California to see her. I can't even imagine what her and her family must be going through. For me, I feel so excited, but then again I feel so much pain for what we are asking this family to go through. It's hard to know how to feel, or what is "right". There needs to be a book some kind of book for this - "Open Adoption For Dummies". It's interesting though, because when we tell people how open this adoption is going to be, I think it freaks some people out. We feel that it's best for everyone this way, it benefits the child, the birthfamily and the adoptive family. We couldn't be happier with the way this adoption is working out. Our birthmom will always be a part of the babies life.
It's going to be an interesting next couple of months. Our plans are for me to go to California in August - then our birthmom will come up to Washington to visit us for a few days (which I can't even wait for!) and then we will go back down sometime in October and then when the baby is born. It's practically here!!! During that time we are also doing another fundraising garage sale in September. We hit our halfway mark of money raised a couple of weeks ago - and now we have kind of come to a dead halt. We are trying to think of ways to finish raising the money. Any suggestions?
