Congratulations!! I'm so happy for you! 💖 I would love to hear your homestudy experience. I know you posted this video quite a while ago...I'm praying for you as you are--hopefully--settling in with your precious daughter. 🩷 Blessings to you!
Here from Canada… also an adoptive-mom-to-be for a kiddo from foster care. It’s been a CRAZY season, since November, getting prepared… but a super exciting time. We cannot wait to get a match call, sometime within the next few months (our second little one, as a sibling to our biological son). CONGRATS!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
@@mattmanandrobynn Well, we had to do police clearances, financial disclosures, medicals, heaps of questionnaires (about your early life, attachments, traumas, your “wish list” in terms of what kinds of issues/cases you will or won’t be willing to consider, etc.). There was a 9 week online training course, a few in class sessions (car seat safety, infant care, trauma informed care, first aid/CPR, etc.). Our home study consists of 3 in-home assessments - a joint interview and safety check ✅, individual interviews ✅ and a final interview (coming up in early July). Then, you’re either approved or not … and the first placement call could come at any time.
So thrilled to hear this news!!!! Will be praying all goes smoothly! Cherish the difficult waiting time, because remembering how much you longed for this child will get you through tough parenting moments.☺️
@@mattmanandrobynn You’ve got the best help you could ever want, a strong faith in a God that cares about everything. And don’t worry about finishing all your boxes. Having your daughter help you pack is a great activity to do together! You can learn so much about her from her choices, and can talk to her about your values and how God cares about every child. 💝
Congratulations 😊. Thank you so much for sharing this step in the process. I will continue to pray foe you guys. All this waiting has to me nerve racking. Love you guys and and so excited for the 3 of you.
Oh man, the waiting is the hardest part! But we know the time is short and we are trying to soak up all the sweet moments together before we officially become a family of 3. ❤️❤️❤️
Matt!! Robynn!! I'm so happy for you guys!! I'm sorry I can't be there for your shower, but hubby and I are going to see Hamilton that night. Love you both sooooo much! Matt, you sound so much like your dad in so many ways.❤❤❤❤
I bet your so happy and can’t wait for the days to come. I totally understand and don’t expect any news until family and friends know etc. I do realise it’s a minimum 6 months in your home before adoption etc. God has amazing plans for you 3 and all the animals.
So happy for you both. I know the waiting is the hardest. It took me a little over a year to finalize all the things required for my two children that I adopted at the ages of 3yrs and 6yrs old in 2018. They are siblings an was so thankful to be able to keep them together. I understand the sadness of feeling you miss out on the normal pregnancy things, like a baby shower. My wonderful church decided to throw me an adoption shower an that truly blessed me and my family. The Lord provides indeed. My kids are my biggest joy in life. I enjoy sharing your families journey an will be praying for you all. 😊❤
I’ve been wondering about you guys and am so glad you gave us an update. So happy for this great news. My brother and I were both adopted and my nephew and his wife adopted their son. Yes, it’s quite a process but you and your beautiful girl will be blessings to each other. Continued prayers!
This is so encouraging!! My husband and I are in the thick of waiting to hear back if we have been chosen as a match in our foster care adoption journey. I find myself just trying to pass the time…!!!!! This wait is like nothing I’ve ever experienced before
I've been waiting and praying for this!! YOU'RE GETTING YOUR GIRL! 😍I'm so so so happy and excited for you guys!! And also PRAISE GOD! It sounds like God's hands is all over this process ❤️🙏🏽 I'll continue to pray everything goes well for all three of you. Also that MAMA necklace 🥹😍
🎊Congratulations! My husband and I are going through the same process. We've started our home study. Praying for you all! Question? Once you finished everything, how long has it been? And any additional information you may want to share. We're in AZ
You got this! We finished our homestudy interviews in December of 2023, were licensed in February of 2024, we’re matched in May of 2024, and are getting placement in July of 2024. From orientation to placement was 1 year and 3 months.
Wow, this is very exciting. Thanks for sharing the process. Y'all will be such great parents with much love to give. Will continue praying that the Lord's hand is with you and your child as you move forward. God bless, and congratulations! ❤😊🎉
I am so happy for y'all! I have been thinking about you and praying for your match! I will continue praying these final steps Go smoothly ❤️🙏 I look forward to hearing how it all goes and hope we can meet her but I know that might not be possible with the foster care system. I really don't know all the rules. But I'm very excited for y'all!
Congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 I am so excited for you. I totally understand if you don't post any Operation Christmas Child videos for a while. I have boxes in the process of getting packed. I believe you are being guided by the lord to focus more on adoption than the shoebox gifts.
I know this sounds weird, but make sure you keep a neutral laundry detergent on hand for foster care children to have their laundry done. I recommend Foca (its the bagged laundry detergent with the animal, a seal on it). It is the most neutral detergent available to reduce skin irritations.
Great tip!!! We already use a dry mix because I have skin irritations with laundry. Hopefully what we use will work but I will be ultra careful watching her skin because I know how that feels.
@@mattmanandrobynn Remember when you bought cloth pads for operation Christmas child? Cloth pads are a great option for her when she gets older. I know she is only 7 now, but in less than five years, she will be hitting those growth spurts and she will need cloth pads to keep her safe from those nasty chemicals from disposables. I say this, because I am a transgender man who used to live a woman and had discovered cloth pads to help me out when I needed them. Now, I recommend those to just about any parent and girl whose parent doesn't mind. So, thank you for putting up with this topic by me.
Hope all is well. Thank you for sharing this and looking forward to an update!
Congratulations!! I'm so happy for you! 💖 I would love to hear your homestudy experience. I know you posted this video quite a while ago...I'm praying for you as you are--hopefully--settling in with your precious daughter. 🩷 Blessings to you!
Congratulations! So happy for you both!
Thank you so much!! ❤️
So happy for you!! ❤❤❤
Thanks!
Was thinking of you two today. Said a little prayer for you. Take care, love you lots.
How wonderful! So glad you are finally making progress! ❤❤❤
Thank you so much!
Congratulations Matt and Robynn! This is so exciting! You guys are beaming! I will continue to pray for you that everything goes smoothly. 🙏❤
You're the best! It means a lot. Thank you for all you do for our little community. ❤️❤️❤️
Your excitement is contagious. So very happy for you!🎉
Thank you so much!!
Here from Canada… also an adoptive-mom-to-be for a kiddo from foster care. It’s been a CRAZY season, since November, getting prepared… but a super exciting time. We cannot wait to get a match call, sometime within the next few months (our second little one, as a sibling to our biological son). CONGRATS!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thanks for sharing!! It’s so cool your kiddo will get a sibling! I’m so curious how different the process is above our boarder. Keep us posted. ❤️
@@mattmanandrobynn Well, we had to do police clearances, financial disclosures, medicals, heaps of questionnaires (about your early life, attachments, traumas, your “wish list” in terms of what kinds of issues/cases you will or won’t be willing to consider, etc.). There was a 9 week online training course, a few in class sessions (car seat safety, infant care, trauma informed care, first aid/CPR, etc.). Our home study consists of 3 in-home assessments - a joint interview and safety check ✅, individual interviews ✅ and a final interview (coming up in early July). Then, you’re either approved or not … and the first placement call could come at any time.
Such awesome news 🎉 keep as updated please. Thrilled for you!
We will! It might take longer than we expect but we will. 😉
Congratulations to you and your family! May the Lord continue to bless your adoption process.
You are so kind. Thank you.
So excited and happy for you guys! Glad Mattman came on for this. Love your necklace ❤
Thank you!! He asked to be in this one it was all his idea.
I love my necklace too 😉
Congratulations! I am so happy for you both! ❤ We have a 7yr old granddaughter. So precious and a wonderful age. 👨👩👧🙏
Thank you so much!! We think 7 is a perfect fit for us.
So thrilled to hear this news!!!! Will be praying all goes smoothly! Cherish the difficult waiting time, because remembering how much you longed for this child will get you through tough parenting moments.☺️
What great advice!!!! We will need all the help we can get. 😝
@@mattmanandrobynn You’ve got the best help you could ever want, a strong faith in a God that cares about everything.
And don’t worry about finishing all your boxes. Having your daughter help you pack is a great activity to do together! You can learn so much about her from her choices, and can talk to her about your values and how God cares about every child. 💝
Wonderful! Congratulations! God bless you all!
Thank you so much!
Congratulations, you deserve this! 🎉
Thank you so much!!
Wishing you well on the process and hope it works out for you fun people.
Awe. Thanks! We hope so too! Adoption is hard but we have faith in the process.
God bless. You're on a great journey and yes follow what you need to do.
Yes! 🙌 Thank you! ☺️
❤ So happy for you! Love y'all
Thanks!!! 😊
Congrats! I'm so happy for y'all! ❤🎉
Thank you! 😊
Congratulations, I loved watching your Occ videos and learning about your adoption news and process. God is good.❤❤❤God bless your new family
Thank you so much!
Congratulations! I’m so happy for your new family. ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much!! ❤️
Congratulations 😊. Thank you so much for sharing this step in the process. I will continue to pray foe you guys. All this waiting has to me nerve racking. Love you guys and and so excited for the 3 of you.
Oh man, the waiting is the hardest part! But we know the time is short and we are trying to soak up all the sweet moments together before we officially become a family of 3. ❤️❤️❤️
Congratulations, Matt and Robynn! So happy for you. I love seeing your excitement. 😊
Thanks so much!! We are excited aren’t we. 🤪
Matt!! Robynn!! I'm so happy for you guys!! I'm sorry I can't be there for your shower, but hubby and I are going to see Hamilton that night. Love you both sooooo much!
Matt, you sound so much like your dad in so many ways.❤❤❤❤
Enjoy Hamilton I’m jealous I LOVE Hamilton!!!
So happy for you 3! Enjoy your family! 🎉🎉🎉 Thank you so much for sharing.
It’s been so much fun the share with friends!
Congratulations. 🎉
🎉🎉🎉
I bet your so happy and can’t wait for the days to come. I totally understand and don’t expect any news until family and friends know etc.
I do realise it’s a minimum 6 months in your home before adoption etc.
God has amazing plans for you 3 and all the animals.
Yup. Even after we get her home it’s 6 more months until she is legally ours. You’re right.
I am so happy for you both! ❤you two will make wonderful parents.
Thank you so much! I hope you’re right!
Congratulations 🎊 I am so happy for you all ❤🎉🎉🎉 you will be great & I can't wait for the day you start packing occ boxes together ❤
Thank you so much!!
Fantastic news and what a blessing you will be to the little one. I'm so happy for you all.
Thank you so much! This means a lot from you. Love ya lots.
I amso excited for you. God is good,!!❤❤❤
Thank you so much!
Congrats on your new daughter…what an answer to prayer🥰
We can’t wait to meet her!
So happy for you both. I know the waiting is the hardest. It took me a little over a year to finalize all the things required for my two children that I adopted at the ages of 3yrs and 6yrs old in 2018. They are siblings an was so thankful to be able to keep them together. I understand the sadness of feeling you miss out on the normal pregnancy things, like a baby shower. My wonderful church decided to throw me an adoption shower an that truly blessed me and my family. The Lord provides indeed. My kids are my biggest joy in life. I enjoy sharing your families journey an will be praying for you all. 😊❤
Thanks for sharing your journey. It is encouraging
So so so very happy for you!!!! AND HER! She’s about to have two amazing parents loving her and the best life ❤
We know we’ll make mistakes and that it will be a roller coaster. But we can’t wait to meet her and love her forever.
🍊Congratulations Matman & Robin!🧩 I am so happy for you!
Awe. I love the orange. It’s “cute.” 🍊🧡
I’ve been wondering about you guys and am so glad you gave us an update. So happy for this great news. My brother and I were both adopted and my nephew and his wife adopted their son. Yes, it’s quite a process but you and your beautiful girl will be blessings to each other.
Continued prayers!
What an encouragement to hear success stories! Thanks for sharing.
This is so encouraging!! My husband and I are in the thick of waiting to hear back if we have been chosen as a match in our foster care adoption journey. I find myself just trying to pass the time…!!!!! This wait is like nothing I’ve ever experienced before
I've been waiting and praying for this!! YOU'RE GETTING YOUR GIRL! 😍I'm so so so happy and excited for you guys!! And also PRAISE GOD! It sounds like God's hands is all over this process ❤️🙏🏽 I'll continue to pray everything goes well for all three of you. Also that MAMA necklace 🥹😍
I hope she likes bows! This whole time I’ve secretly wanted a little one to wear bows in her hair. 🎀 Time will tell.
Congratulations 🎊 I’d love to see a video about the shower if you had made one!
Congratulations.
Thank you!
🎊Congratulations! My husband and I are going through the same process. We've started our home study. Praying for you all! Question? Once you finished everything, how long has it been? And any additional information you may want to share. We're in AZ
You got this!
We finished our homestudy interviews in December of 2023, were licensed in February of 2024, we’re matched in May of 2024, and are getting placement in July of 2024.
From orientation to placement was 1 year and 3 months.
@mattmanandrobynn many prayers for your family. We're getting so close, but the waiting is the worst. Lol. Enjoy your new blessing.
Wow, this is very exciting. Thanks for sharing the process. Y'all will be such great parents with much love to give. Will continue praying that the Lord's hand is with you and your child as you move forward. God bless, and congratulations! ❤😊🎉
Thank you sooo much!
God knows ALL that needs to be known. I am soo excited for you both
Thanks!!!
I am so happy for y'all! I have been thinking about you and praying for your match! I will continue praying these final steps Go smoothly ❤️🙏 I look forward to hearing how it all goes and hope we can meet her but I know that might not be possible with the foster care system. I really don't know all the rules. But I'm very excited for y'all!
Thank you so much!! And we won’t be able to introduce her on any social media. But we will be giving updates on our process.
How exciting! I can't wait to meet your new daughter ❤
Me too! Lol. 😝
Congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 I am so excited for you. I totally understand if you don't post any Operation Christmas Child videos for a while. I have boxes in the process of getting packed. I believe you are being guided by the lord to focus more on adoption than the shoebox gifts.
Thank you so much!! That is a huge encouragement. I’m a little hard on myself about it. But what you said took some of the load off. Thanks!
I know this sounds weird, but make sure you keep a neutral laundry detergent on hand for foster care children to have their laundry done. I recommend Foca (its the bagged laundry detergent with the animal, a seal on it). It is the most neutral detergent available to reduce skin irritations.
Great tip!!! We already use a dry mix because I have skin irritations with laundry. Hopefully what we use will work but I will be ultra careful watching her skin because I know how that feels.
@@mattmanandrobynn Remember when you bought cloth pads for operation Christmas child? Cloth pads are a great option for her when she gets older. I know she is only 7 now, but in less than five years, she will be hitting those growth spurts and she will need cloth pads to keep her safe from those nasty chemicals from disposables. I say this, because I am a transgender man who used to live a woman and had discovered cloth pads to help me out when I needed them. Now, I recommend those to just about any parent and girl whose parent doesn't mind. So, thank you for putting up with this topic by me.
I love that your husband is wearing a Hufflepuff shirt. We're Hufflepuffs around here too
I’m actually a sytheryn. 🐍 But I love his Huffelpuff heart!!!
Just remember that God's rules for raising children has not changed and I know He is your base!
Thank you Aunt Barb! ❤️
I can't wait until she packs a shoebox with you and shares it with us.
How fun! I can’t wait to share our love of giving.