Fingerprints

When you adopt a child, you have to do many things that are not the "norm" when you have a child.When a baby is born, they are weighed, measured, and their tiny little fingers and footprints are taken.Yesterday afternoon, we traveled to Human Services. Knowing that everything would be fine, I still experienced nerves.Suddenly it hit me... A mother will have to give up her child... the thought of thought troubled me for quite awhile. I kept thinking of how hard a decision like that had to be and thinking about how she would feel about us.My prayer is that whoever she is, that she will find peace and love when that decision is made.

I feel like every new thing we do, or hoop we jump through is one small step closer to parenthood. The nerves are exciting, kinda like the butterflies you get when you are about to get married and your walking down the aisle towards the love of your life, and you think to yourself, " This aisle got longer, can't I just run to him?" Each step we take gets us closer and closer to the reality of parenthood. Questions start running through your mind, "Will I be a good mom/dad,will he/she get used to us?, How will we handle telling them about their birth parents when they ask?."

Even though we have a lot to consider and be prayerful about one thing is for sure, God will be there to guide us every single step of the way. It all makes us excited about what God has in store for the Pamblanco Family.

( Thanks to Carrie for these bibs- we do not know at this time if we are adopting a boy or girl, or what age they will be (only God knows), but if we do get a boy first we will save these for the little girl we want to adopt from China, when Jason is "of age" LOL LOL. Love ya Carrie!!)