Forgety Family: Update

I received a birthday card from one of my aunt’s back in March, who is so sweet and always sends me a card, with a comment that she misses the updates on the blog.  And I thought to myself, “Has it really been that long since I updated? I just posted last week.”

Well, it’s been more like 4 months. Whatev.

So…here is quick recap of our adoption progress over the last 4 months:

·         January 9^th:  Received our updated number of 76

·         February 16^th: Received our new number of 74

·         April 9^th: Received our new number of 67

Nothing terribly exciting but still progress none-the-less towards bringing our kiddo(s) home.  We are about to have to start the process of updating all our paperwork/fingerprints/etc.  and that thought alone makes me have a mini panic attack.  

Breathe. Breathe. Breathe.

Until then we are hanging out with our two small tator tots that:

• are learning to use the big potty,
• like to give hugs straight out of the bath tub while they are still soaking wet, 
• call us "Ty-lee" and "A-don", 
• like to pray about their poop, 
• change clothes at an alarming rate, 
• throw wild-eye hissy fits because we cannot magically produce juice at any given moment in time, and on command
• and love us despite all the flaws Adam and I have.

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Forgety Family: Our First Number

By: Khylee Forgety

WE FINALLY GOT OUR NUMBER!

(Back in September, but life has been crazy with the two extras at our house,

so thanks for the grace and prayer)

This is a big step forward for our adoption process and we couldn’t be more happy to finally be at this point.  But what does it mean?

In Honduras, the process for getting a referral is a little bit different than other countries.  Everyone that is adopting from the country gets put on ONE BIG list.  We are #81 on that list to get a referral for a child.  As families lower on the list are assigned a referral than our number will drop.  It could drop one, two, or five numbers or not drop at all. 

So now we wait.  Wait for that number to get lower and lower. 

Thankfully, we have TWO little rugrats at the house keeping us busy by teaching us how to kiss boo-boos, play dress-up and horsey, fix kid friendly meals, and how to be a parent.

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Where have we been? (The Folsoms)

By: Courtney

Update… A long (really long) time coming,

WHERE HAVE WE BEEN?????

Four long months of silence…

An update is LONG overdue.

I have had several people approach me and ask me about the blog, so I decided I must carve out time and update you all! I am actually only getting the time to do this now because I have been sick with the flu and my mother-in-law is fabulous and is entertaining our kiddos.

WHAT? OUR KIDDOS?!?!?!
Are you wondering what you have missed?

No, we have not brought home our little one from Ghana.

However, we have had 2 children in our home for the last 4 months. (Hence the cyber absence…)
I TOTALLY should have blogged about our experience over the last 4 months. It probably would have been therapeutic (which I cannot lie I probably needed some therapy every now in then in those months).

Matt and I went from family of 2, into overnight an instant family of 4.

TOTAL SHOCK.

No lie.

In our new life thrust into parenthood, time has flown by.

The last 4 months have been a whirlwind of:

morning hustle & bustle

sporting events

soccer in the yard

clothes shopping

grocery shopping (x50!!!!!!!!!)

homework

reading books

temper tantrums (both mine and the children)

lots of “firsts” and learning new things

Now why didn’t I blog in all my free time?
That’s right! I was trying to find time to bathe MYSELF and sleep every now and then. (I SALUTE SINGLE MOTHERS! THIS JOB IS HARD ENOUGH WITH 2 OF US!)

There was an obvious and LARGE learning curve. Yet, there were maternal/paternal instincts that take over that you never knew existed.

We are learning to:

cook kid friendly meals

stop dreaming of a clean house

give the right amount of love and discipline

navigate 2 opposite ends of the spectrum of discipline with a preschooler & a teenager

throw away the idea of the way you always thought things would be

make time for US together as a married couple

seek God’s grace daily (understatement of the year)

I so badly want to share the plethora of things the Lord has been showing me through this process. But those will probably be 30 different blogs. WAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much to fit here.

So where have we been?

In the trenches, living life, trying to figure it all out.

Updates on the adoption coming soon...

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