It's Been A While

Ok, I know I have severely neglected our blog so I hope you will forgive me if this post is a bit random. Here's a little catch-up. We moved back to Idaho two years ago and stayed with Travis's mom for a while and then with my parents while we fixed up my grandpa's rental home to live in. We were there for several months when Travis got a teaching job at BYU Idaho. After commuting for five months we moved closer to the school and we are loving it here. I'm getting to know the moms in our neighborhood, Mason is enjoying kindergarten and Travis is finally in a teaching position that he has been praying for for a long time. About a year ago we began the adoption application process. Our case worker told us that you could theoretically push through and get an application done in three weeks. We foolishly thought we could do that. Not so... I think it took us about ten months from start to finish. The hardest part, for me anyway, was the letter to the birth parents. How do you decide what to tell someone who is looking for someone to raise their child? How much do you share?