Video Camera Dilemma

I emailed the adoptive parent coordinator at the agency the other day. I email or call the agency once a week. I always tell myself I am going to go a week without contacting them but I just can't help myself. I don't want to be annoyingly persistent but I want to keep my name and face fresh in their minds. Thankfully, I am at the top of their list (that's what they tell me, at least) and they all know my name there pretty well. I've been told by the adoptive parent coordinator and agency director that they are all rooting for us and doing everything they can to find us a match. This is a very slow time for agencies across the country right now so I guess that makes it not so frustrating that our agency hasn't had very many intakes lately. Okay, who am I kidding? I am still frustrated. I know it's not the agency's fault. It's just so hard when there were so many situations for the past few months and now all of the sudden - nothing. Anyway, the coordinator emailed me back right away and said she would be back in the office next Monday and would look to see what cases they have.

I always pray for our birthmom and our baby. Even though we currently do not have a birthmom situation and are not matched at the moment, I always pray for them and that they are healthy and doing well and that they find us soon. I also pray for God's will to be done with the birthmom situations...so I guess I need to stop getting upset whenever we aren't matched or when a good amount of time goes by without us hearing a single word.

I unpacked our car a few weeks back and last week we finally took out of the car the base of the car seat. I just felt like the empty carseat base was a constant reminder that we are not parents.

With our last failed adoption, we debated whether or not to get one of those small video cameras (either a Flip video camera or a different tiny video camera). Kyle and I do not have smart phones by choice and so neither one of us have video capabilities on our cell phones. While I think it would be really neat to document meeting our future child, our time spent in Florida while waiting to go home, etc...we wonder about the reality of how often we would really use a video camera. Part of me wants to capture the precious moments of walking in the hospital and seeing our baby for the first time and then the sensible part of me says we will hardly use the video camera. My family did not have a video camera growing up so pictures were just fine. Kyle's family did have a video camera and he likes the fact that there are videos of him when he is little but in all actuality, how often to we watch those videos? The answer is never (or at least not yet). I don't know...anyone have any opinions on the idea of getting a video camera? Keep in mind we are very sensible when it comes to buying things and we don't like to buy things just to buy them...but we (or at least I am) are sentimental people.

Opinions?