Jonah's Journey

I promised myself 4 years ago, when we didn't get to adopt like I was so sure that we would, that the next time we got back on the scene I would not be so outspoken about the process.  That I would keep our steps and twists and turns on the down low.  And I do fully intend to maintain a lower profile of this next foster/adopt effort.  But I wanted to go ahead and mark today as the day that this got real.

And by got real, I just mean we attended an informational meeting with Jonah's Journey (and their new-ish partner of Palmer Home) and that Josh and I were quickly of the same mind that this is a go for us and that now is also a go for us.  The more we heard and witnessed tonight, the more this felt like a clear-as-day glass slipper sliding on for a perfect fit ... especially after having admitted to ourselves in the fall after a different informational meeting that fostering with Sumner County DCS was not gonna pan out for us just yet. 

Being the more emotional of the two of us, I am feeling so optimistic and quite pumped.  Like, really excited at the thought that we know what we are doing next now.  But I am also gonna take my cues from Josh more this time and keep it tempered and realistic as we take the next steps forward.  Even more, I will take my cues and timing from the Lord and his movement in this process and less from my dreamy-eyed hopes and emotional wishes ... even if that should lead us to another closed door for the moment. 

I mean it, I am gonna be cool and go with the flow. Mark my words.

But still, eeek! :}