Graduated!!

Saturday was our last class!! YAY!! It was so bittersweet. We had such a great time getting to know everyone is our class and getting closer to our adoption. We hit it off with one couple and had dinner before our last class and carpooled up to Logan. They are way fun and am sure this is just a start of another friendship.
I wanted to talk about our third class that was last Saturday. It was the "panel" class. We had one (out of three) of the birth moms show up to talk to us and share her story. I was bummed that only one showed up. I LOVED hearing her side and all the love and time and prayer and everything she put into her decision to place her baby for adoption. It is such an incredible process on all sides of it. This birth mom talked about how her process of healing has worked and how she feels that adoption was the best choice for herself and her boy. Next they had two couples come that have adopted before. One talked about openness, and the other on interracial adoption. They had wonderful stories to tell and great advice. One thing that I learned is that I am really going to have to hold on to the reigns. I have a tendency to jump right in. All parties at the meeting said it is best to start into the relationship slow and to gain each others trust and slowly open the door to a more open relationship. I want a relationship with the birth mom to be fully trusted and for the child to know exactly where they came from. I want our child to not have any questions about who they are. We have started to pray for our future child and for the birth mom. This has been such a great way to help Mason understand adoption more and to really start to bond with the idea.