Our adoption story

I decided to move blogs over to one solely for our adoption. So I'm gonna backtrack a little if you haven't been following my blog and update on our story. My husband and I have been married for 3 and a half years. Our plans when we first got married were simple. Wait two years, then have a family. Have a couple of biological children then we wanted to adopt. We weren't sure where or when just knew that at some point we wanted to adopt. Well fast forward a year and we decided forget the original plan let's go on and start trying, figuring we'd be the typical 2-3 months 6 months max and there'd be a baby on the way. But by the time six months came, we knew something wasn't right. So after the year long wait that the doctor makes you have before they consider infertility, we began the infertility testing. In a way we were lucky, a lot of people go thousands of dollars in to find out what the problem is if they ever do find out and several years. We took a month and a few hundred. Though they don't know all of it we do know enough that having a child biologically at this point will be nothing short of a miracle... or IVF. And IVF wasn't something we were willing to do so a miracle it will take. We took a year, began really researching adoption and then took a one last ditch effort to a reproductive endocronologist thinking there were some other options. When he told us our tests had changed dramatically and IVF was our only chance... well we didn't see it that way. To us it wasn't an option. Personal beliefs and ethical opinions of our own, not to mention a whole lot of cash for a small percentage of it working, we prayed about it and decided there are children out there who need a home. So back to research to pick an agency. We chose Bethany Christian mainly because it is Christian and we really liked what we saw. They also gave us the most information of any agency that we requested information from. So we filed our pre-application and the wait began. In October, we went to our first meeting with the agency, got our questions cleared up, and began the massive paperwork to adopt. To us, when the doctor told us that IVF was it, God didn't shut the door... He slammed it. We knew at that point with the very drastic, unreasonable changes that had occured with the test results that God was clearlyh pointing out that this was His way for us. And though it may not have been in our original plans, we know that His way is always the best. I'm taken back to the verse that I have clung to since high school. "For I know the plans I have for you sayeth the Lord. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you. To give you a hope and a future." Jer. 29:11

So where are we now:
Adoption process completed:

• pre-application
• initial meeting
• formal application
• first interview with our social worker

Adoption process currently:

• Just sent off our finger prints
• arranging physicals
• filling out mounds and mounds of paperwork

Adoption process coming soon:

• second interview (individuals)
• home visit
• fundraising
• making profile books

And with all steps lots and lots of waiting (and for those of you who know me, this is the hardest part). So let the journey continue!