What happens next

This has been a crazy, whirlwind summer so far and we still have a month left till school starts again in August!  Corey is still in AZ training for his new UAV and I have officially left the south.  We can now confirm that Ft. Irwin, CA will be our new home come August!  We've been in the south for the past 6 years of Corey's army career, so we're excited to see another part of the country.  It's also only about 5 hours or so from my parents which is pretty cool.  We had grown accustomed to being close to Corey's parents the past few years and we're happy to still stay close to family.  

I am currently in Maine visiting my best friend Kate until August.  I will then be on my way to Ft. Irwin sans Corey to start my new job as a middle school math teacher!  Corey and I always say that everything happens for a reason and somehow we have the most perfect of perfect timing and right around the time he finishes up training will be when I start teaching again.  Hopefully that means we can get all of our stuff out of storage soon after and begin getting our house ready for the womb nugget in October.  

But the big question: HOW DOES THIS AFFECT YOUR ADOPTION?!

Now that we have official orders we can actually start using the CA state laws and paperwork for our adoption.  We had originally planned on going through a consulting firm to give us a wide range of agencies to work with anywhere in the United States, but with womb nugget coming in October we didn't think we could feasibly leave CA for upwards of 3 weeks while we wait for adoption paperwork to go through.  Instead, we are talking about working with one specific agency in CA so that we can go back home while waiting for the adoption paperwork.  Everything will still be a bit up in the air until we actually get to Ft. Irwin but we are still hoping to become active by January 2017.  Once we get ourselves resettled and adjusted in Ft. Irwin we will be doing some more fundraisers to help us reach our adoption goal, so keep your eyes peeled!

And just because I can never say it enough: Thank you for everything you have done for us. We have felt so much love during this process and we are so grateful that we have been surrounded with such amazing people in our lives.