Change in the Wind 2.0 (be sure to read previous post first)

Okay, now that I've gotten all that out of my system, on to where we're heading now. One of the major considerations in walking away from the adoption plan with T. was the costs involved. We would basically have had to exhaust all of our savings in order to bring her baby into our home, which, while not necessarily a bad thing, we decided wasn't the best possible choice, considering the fact that Katrina would be staying at home until the child started school. If a car blew up, or a tree crashed on the house, or whatever, we'd be sunk. Not a pretty picture. Not a place to be at the age of 35.

So, now, we are currently investigating several options, all of which would leave our nest egg intact. One potential pathway is adoption through the state. Any state. We have located children via state adoption websites in places as far away as Texas and Ohio, and others as near as Oregon.

A different option was presented to us by our lawyer today (who, by the way, turned out to be *the* adoption lawyer in Southwest Washington - ten years of experience, and she deals exclusively in adoption). She has contacts with at least four birth mothers locally to whom she would like to give copies of our "birth mom letter."

Adopting through the state would mean older children. Adopting through our lawyer would mean an infant. Both situations have pluses and minuses.

Our desire if we are to adopt through a state agency is to try for a sibling group, two to three kids. Of course, an infant adoption would more than likely involve only one child. Our social worker has stated that she would support us in adopting older children, meaning that she, in her professional opinion, believes we have the resources, both financially and mentally, to cope with changing our lives that drastically.

As I've said before, I just want to be someone's dad. If it's one someone who's a newborn, great. If it's two or three someones, then that's great, too.

Also as I've said before, Katrina and I certainly covet everyone's prayers during this time. The prayer covering we've had (from readers of this blog and from the folks at our church) has seemed nearly physically tangible in its quality.