Home Study Day & Your Song

Dear Victoria,

The home study went great today! We are pushing along in getting all the documents together so we have everything turned into them on our end. Our physicals also went really well, we are both healthy and according to the doctor, "very capable of adopting a child". We meet with our Home Study Social Worker again next week to do individual interviews and then he can start writing it up while we finish getting paperwork together. The thing that will take the longest is getting the background checks done, so hopefully Dad's social security card gets here quickly so we can turn that in.

I feel such an urgency to get everything in and taken care of. I know we will have lots of waiting to do and patience to be learned, but I just want to get everything we can do, DONE! Just knowing that you are there waiting for us to come get you motivates me like crazy.

Tonight Daddy and I are going to start the adoption education courses that we have to do for the home study. We will learn lots of great things so we can be good parents to you and be more prepared for the day that we get to bring you home.

YOUR SONG

I want to play your song for you tonight. It is by one of my favorite singers, and she is actually from Utah. Her name is Mindy Gledhill. I've listened to her music for a while now, but this song never stood out to me until a couple weeks ago.

When I first started feeling like it was time to find a child on RR and adopt, I would wake up every morning wondering if I would still feel the same way. Without fail, there was always an experience each day that would confirm that what I was feeling was right and true. On one of those morning while getting your sisters their baths we were listening to our Mindy Gledhill playlist. I heard this song and thought, "did that song just say what I think it did?" I had never noticed it before, in all the times we've listened to her songs. So I looked up the lyrics and read them while I listened to it again...and again...and AGAIN. It was YOUR song. This was before we found out that we were chosen to adopt you by the agency we were working with. I didn't want to get my hopes up that you were the one, but I wanted it to be you so bad. While we were waiting to find out, I would look through the Reece's Rainbow site to see if any other little girls stood out to me, and when I would think about asking about them, I would just cry. I just had to wait until I found out if you were ours, the "Long lost child" we were searching for. The one that Heavenly Father was telling me to find.

The first verse makes me think of the pre-existence, before we came to this earth. I can't help but wonder if we all knew about this all along, that we would be a family someday.

Mindy Gledhill - Long Lost Child

Love,

Mommy