We don't know, but we've been told...very little.

Six couples. Three full weekends. Roller coaster of emotion. No, it's not the trailer for the latest reality show. It's the extent of what we know about our upcoming trainings. Many of you have asked "just what will they train you on?" We just don't know.

There have been a few hints that we will cover the topic of infertility or our path to decide to adopt. We've also heard tell that birth mothers who have worked through our agency in the past will come to speak with us. There are 6 full days of training attended by our entire group of adoptive families. We're so excited to meet the others and develop some commeraderie with the people who can best relate to our many emotions right now.

Interestingly, we haven't heard anything of those training topics that hospitals host for expectant birth parents, i.e. swaddling, managing expectations, infant first aid. I guess only adoptive parents need to have a safe environment to bring a baby into and birth parents are the only ones who swaddle their babies. We're going to be overachievers and attempt to conquer both.

Our official training dates are the weekends of March 31st, April 7th and April 21st. We realize that life will soon begin to bombard us with unofficial lessons faster than we can blink.