What's Next?

Many of you have asked what's up next for the Racine family, so I thought I'd just post about it. Our plan for now is to start our second adoption this summer!! We are beyond thrilled to do so. We love Kaleigh so much and can't wait to love on another baby! We also can't wait to see her be a big sister. She L-O-V-E-S babies. At church she always wants to touch the babies smaller than her and give them a hug. It's the cutest thing ever!

We have decided to use a different agency for this adoption. There are a couple of reasons for that. One is simply financially it makes more sense for us right now to go with a local, not as expensive agency. The second is that more than likely the baby will be born in Indiana so we won't have to travel so far away and be gone from home for so long. We also want Kaleigh to be able to see her sibling as soon as possible and although we would for sure take her if we had to travel far, logistically it just makes more sense to stay local. I want to be clear that we loved working with Christian Adoption Consultants and our agency in Florida, but the agency we have chosen here just makes more sense for us right now. I would highly recommend CAC to anyone.

The agency we have chosen has an average wait time of 12-24 months before you get matched with a birth mom and then it's usually a few months later that the baby is born. We would love to be chosen sooner so our kids can be closer in age, but feel content with that wait time if that is what God has for us.

It's kind of crazy to start thinking about diving into #2. We kept saying "we'll probably start in July" and it seemed so far away and now it's less than 2 months away. Man how time flies. It also seems crazy to me that we are about to dive back into all that paperwork-oh my word the paperwork! It is crazy all the paperwork you have to fill out.

We are beyond excited to see what God has for us as we start this next venture in the beautiful journey He has us on. We ask that you would pray for us that we would have wisdom and discernment as we proceed and that we would trust God's perfect timing. When we were chosen for Kaleigh it was the 10th time our profile book had been shown. We couldn't understand why we weren't getting picked. Now we know. Kaleigh is the perfect fit for our family and we love her birth family more than we could ever say. It really was the perfect situation for us. God knew all along. And He knows now. He knows exactly what we need, so we trust Him as we enter into this.