A NEW ADOPTION JOURNEY

Hello Friends!

It has been quite a while. We've had to kind of snuggle in and protect together with this new family. So many things were a little different than I had imagined they would be. And so many things are so much more than I could ever have imagined.

We had to pull back quite a lot on the public aspect of our adoption journey for a few reasons. The biggest reason being that with a three year old who is making crazy amounts of adjustments, along with loss, and the expected attachment building there just was no time to sit and write complete sentences and post them with beautiful pics. Another reason was to protect. To protect this little one, To protect her future. To make sure she was adjusting well, felt secure, and comfortable in this new family. (I'm sure I'll write more on that later at some point.)

I am thrilled beyond measure to tell you that we are thriving here. We are just absolutely in awe and love with our little girl who had suddenly turned into a big girl, practically overnight. We have settled in comfortably into our new life together and I could not, in a million years, ask for anything more.

Except for a bigger family.

And we are excited to announce that we have renewed our home study and are officially WAITING for some brothers and sisters to add to this little tribe soon!!

We are so blessed to be able to stay with our case manager, Anita, on this new adoption journey. We firmly believe we would not have our little Bea home without her hard work, many hours on the phone, and her warrior prayers throughout our journey. I mean, she went WAY above and beyond for our girl and we are so incredibly grateful and blessed by her. It was a God-moment when, two years ago, we walked into the God's Children Adoption Agency informational meeting in just down the road from our apartment and met our "Muh-nita" (as our girl calls her).

We renewed our home study but under a different agency name. We are now working with Legacy of Adoption and so excited!

We are continuing our interest in adopting from foster care and are keeping everything very open as far as special needs and are open to any ethnicity.

So look forward to some more truly amazing miracles and unexpected answers to prayer. Please continue to partner with us in prayer, and giving if you feel so called. We know that God's plan of adoption is nothing short of incredible and He will never let anything get in the way of a child and his or her forever family.

I have also began to write again about daily life and whatnot at a new blog address: our-tiny-tribe.blogspot.com. Please also note the new address of our adoption blog as well. And if you would like to follow us on instagram: @jennaloujellyshoe is our private account, @our.tiny.tribe is our public account.