I am completely overwhelmed!

On Thursday, I headed off to Atlanta with my mom for a weekend intensive session on with the Independent Adoption Center. This is the center that I am using for the adoption. I arrived at the center at 9 o'clock in the morning to sit until 4:30. While I was learning, my mom got the opportunity to enjoy the Marriott in Norcross. Fun right? On Friday, I learned everything about designing my birth mother letter. When I saw one, I thought, "Piece of Cake!" Wow, was I wrong! There is so much that goes into designing and writing this letter. There are guidelines for pictures and the wording you use. It's a little crazy but it is all to help make this process easy for us and the birth moms.

During lunch we watched the show Adoption Diaries. This is a show on WE and it shops the adoption process with the Independent Adoption Center (IAC). They showed us one that went through the roller coaster of emotions. I think there was barely a dry eye in the room. It was great to get to watch what will happen. I am definitely going to try to watch the show more.

While Friday was very overwhelming, I learned a lot of information and was able to find answers to my questions. Saturday we were able to talk about the home study and all of the information and paperwork (yes, more paperwork) that has to be filled out. There is so much information to take in an absorb at one time. I am going to take this weekend and just think about the information that was given to me and then take the Thanksgiving break to start working on my birth mother letter.