Our Journey Starts New

November 2011

For about a year and a half we have been praying that God would bless us with a child. We never imagined having any trouble pursuing this dream, but after a year of seemingly getting no where, we decided to start pursuing infertility treatment. Though we have not been told we cannot have children, the odds are not in our favor. This has been a very difficult journey, which has led us to start the adoption process. Adoption is something we had talked about even before we were married. Our desire is to be parents and raise children to teach them about our Savior, Jesus Christ. At times we wonder if it would have been easier to be told we are unable to have kids so that we could have started the adoption process sooner, but we know God’s timing is perfect, as is His plan for us. We are in the beginning stages of the adoption, we have finished reading the manual, and have started the Adoptive Planning Questionnaire. Once the APQ is finished we will apply for our Home Study. From there we will start working on our profile to be shown to potential birth mothers. We are very excited to have the opportunity to be blessed with a child, and know as hard or as scary and tough the process might be in the end God's will, will be done and we hope we are able to glorify him in every way.

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Adoption update 8-9

Update on adoption.   Thank you for the flow of prayers as every time we go to a feeding with baby Hope we experience the peace and calm of Jesus being with her, seeing her get better, and grow.

Where our struggle comes in is signing over rights from the birth parents to us for custody at discharge.  We are continually waiting and trying to communicate with the birth mother and adoption agency.   Prayers need to also be for the birth mother as she is struggling to sign consent and getting a hold of the birth father.   She did get some conversations in with the attorney and social workers today.   However, we keep going into the next day with empty promises, no consent signed, and patience wearing thin.  
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