Sunny Skies Ahead

DH and I decided not to get each other gifts this Christmas.  Even though it was our first as husband and wife we are looking at the bigger picture.  We both want to adopt a child soooooooooo bad and we all know how expensive it is.  We have been saving our money and planning ways to be financially ready for the day we got THE CALL to come get our forever child. 

God has a way of working things out and he placed an opportunity for the adoption money in front of us.  Four months ago DH and I found an adoption agency we were both super excited about.  The wait time was short.  They housed all social workers AND legal admins in the same location.  It was pretty much a one stop shop.  With all that comes a higher cost and we went to the bank to borrow the ridiculous amount of money.  We were denied for the amount requested.  Afterwards we were both stressed.  We kept circulating ideas about how on earth we were going to get the money together to push our paperwork through to the marketing department of this agency we loved so much.  DH and I are both teachers so it's obvious we don't make tons of money.  We didn't choose our careers for the money.  We chose them because we both have a desire to teach children. 

To make a long story short, after we were denied we gave it a couple weeks and decided to search for a local adoption agency that suited us.  We found one.  We finished all our required paperwork (including home study) in only 3 weeks!!  (We are not joking around with this adoption business)  Three weeks ago we went to the SAME bank requesting the SAME amount in loans for adoption and we were APPROVED!!!!  There were no questions, no down payments, no nothing.  We were approved with flying colors!  Now, this told us a couple different things. 
1.  We obviously were not meant to go through the first agency for our forever family.
2.  God does have a hand in everything we do and we know it's all in His timing.

So now we wait for THAT call to say we have been matched.  In the meantime, now that most of the stress is now gone thanks to God and the people at the bank, DH and I decided to give each other a Christmas present and we booked a trip to Mexico!  We will be boarding Carnival Paradise in April (our spring break) heading towards Cozumel and Grand Cayman.  This will be our honeymoon/Christmas gift/de-stresser trip all in one and we are so looking forward to enjoying some time together...just the two of us :)