The Adoption Journal: It's Nursery Prep Time!

It's finally time to start work on our nursery! Eek!

The beginnings of our library

When we decided to adopt back in May 2017, we didn't know we were in for four months of applications, background checks, fingerprints, health exams, webinars, weekend classes in San Francisco, home studies, house preparation, reading material, employment and income verification, brochure and profile creation, and a paperwork snafu that set us back a month. It was a whirlwind!

When we officially became a waiting family in September 2017, we decided to take a baby breather (that sounds weird, but I'm rolling with it). The average wait time for placement is 18 months, so 6 months later, we felt rejuvenated enough to start preparing to welcome our baby home in hopes that 2018 will finally (fingers crossed, thoughts and prayers, magic spells--send them all our way) be the year we become parents!

Anyone need a desk?

This weekend, I finally got everything non-baby related out of what was our office, other than my desk, which is on its way out (anyone want a desk? Free to friends and family). Now our office is in our garage, and Brian and I will share his desk.

Those of you who know us well (if you're reading this, that likely includes you) know that we love the outdoors, and we also love movies. We needed something gender neutral that would be fun to decorate.

With that said, our theme is... *drumroll please*...

Our bookshelf needs books!

Camping with a Wes Anderson vibe (it's a thing, I'm not crazy, I promise). Think Moonrise Kingdom and Fantastic Mr. Fox combined. See my Pinterest board to know what the heck I'm talking about.

We've got the perfect crib coming this week (thank you grandma Angie and grandpa Jeff)! And I've got some registry items picked out at Target. We're picking out paint this week! And a window treatment because we sorely need one.

Closet with curtains shut - should still be able to use these

Our agency does not suggest having a baby shower before we have custody (many reasons for this--I'll blog on that topic later), so we will have a Welcome Shower or "Sip and See" once the baby is placed with us. If you'd like to help us prepare for our little one's arrival, I've added links to the registries in the upper right corner. We've already had some donations and gifts. Thank you so much! We are so blessed. Please remember to keep it gender neutral for now!

Here are the obligatory before pics scattered throughout this post! I'll be adding in progress stuff as I can. And our quilt from Etsy arrived today (can't wait to get home to see it--squee!).